California

Here we are in California again... it has been 3 weeks since we were here last. 2 cousins have passed away, both WAY TOO YOUNG.

I finished the book There Is No Me Without You today while Ben was driving. It is the story of Ethiopia and AIDS and Orphans. I cried through much of it and read parts to Ben while trying to keep the emotion from my voice. In one part she talks about her daughter who had been adopted from Ethiopia and how she would react to meeting new friends. Right away she would ask if her friend had a mom... and the friends were always so incredulous, "of course I have a mom" but in her daughters world, in our new kids world, having a mom is not a given... 6.5 million orphans, 6.5 million kids without someone to send them to wash their face, say their prayers, or eat more vegetables. 6.5 million kids without someone to sign their reading log and hear the goofy jokes they made up. Truly, this cannot be...

Danny woke up this morning and while I was running around like crazy he told me that God gave him a message in his dream last night. I stopped what I was doing (tried not to giggle) and asked him what he meant. He said that in his dream there were crabs in our shower. And the crabs were nice and that means that M will be nice.

Oh, he makes me smile.