Inspired

I've been inspired! I've been reading all your blogs and thinking, "Hey!" I can do this. So, it's my first ever blog....well, second actually, because I started one a couple of years ago, but we only had dial-up, so that didn't work too well. And now, I can't even remember the address of it. So, I shall this again.

Yesterday, we went to listen to the Matoto Children's Choir at church. As soon as these children started singing, I start weeping. As I listen to them sing and share their stories (they are all orphans - many by parents who died from AIDS), I am thinking, "Man, these children are survivors!." Against all the odds, here they are, singing their hearts out. As Art and I talked about it later, he said that the thing that he was thinking was, "These children are singing for their brothers & sisters, friends.... The millions who are affected by this epidemic". It was powerful. Did you know that there are an estimated 15 MILLION children right now with AIDS. 15 MILLION! That is a whole generation of people who will leave their children as orphans at too young of an age. It's crazy!

On a lighter note, while this concert was going on, I was in and out of it with Ellie Mae, who has a bad cold. So bad, in fact, that she coughed so much that she puked on me. Yup, once again, puked on. Isn't life as a mother so great? So then, I stunk like puke. Yummy!!