Haiti Tragedy Here's your chance to give

My heart is saddened at the recent natural disaster/tragedy that has struck Haiti. We sincerely pray that the people affected will receive immediate and immense assistance. I have not and hope I never will experience this type of disaster in my life. To be battered, bruised, distraught, homeless and hungry... I can't imagine the pain. There are many of God's children that have lost their lives. I pray that their loved ones that are still living will find peace and comfort.

In situations like these I begin to feel inadequate. Like I should be able to swoop into action and help. I wish I could be there digging through rubble, handing out food & water, comforting a heartbroken family. But my circumstances do not allow this.

Instead I try and focus on the things I can do:

*I can pray. I know Heavenly Father is hearing a lot of voices about Haiti right now. But I know he hears ALL of them. He knows each and every ones burdens.

*I can donate. I know I am not rich and as a matter of fact have a lot of bills to pay. But I count myself blessed as I have a roof over my head, a bed to sleep, my health and food in my stomach. So even if I can only spare $20. Than that is $20 more than they had before, it's a meal, a blanket and some water.
There are many organizations to donate to. I choose to donate to my churches humanitarian aid. 100% of the funds donated to the fund actually go to humanitarian causes. Here is a link to a story about the churches actions.
http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58436/Church-sends-humanitarian-aid-to-Haiti-after-70-earthquake.html

Here is the link if you want to give directly to that same humanitarian fund.http://give.lds.org/emergencyresponse

I can do what I am able to do. But at least it is something.

God Bless the people of Haiti.

There girls were pretty cute on Sunday at church. Summer was such a reverent little angel. She kept her arms folded neatly throughout Sacrament (both bread & water). Meanwhile Ava had a supreme case of the wiggles. I put her down and she was very corageous walking about the aisleway. We were late getting them breakfast so I split up a clementine and fed it to them after Sacrament. Ava managed to smack her head into a chair and Chris snuck out in the hall with her.

The highlight of the meeting is when their cousin Masyn came over to say Hi. Summer squealed with delight and hugged her and kissed her....for about 5 minutes. Summer hadn't seen Masyn in about 2 weeks, since Christmas. When Chris came back from the hallway with Ava they were still hugging. All three of them then began hugging and kissing and started playing ring around the rosey in the back of the chapel. How cute!

When we finally got them to calm down Masyn crawled up in a chair and Summer crawled after her and sat in her lap. Masyn is going to be such a good big sister.

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I taught my lesson for the Valiants by squeaking my through as I am still sick and have no voice. I am running on 2 weeks of sickness at this point. Sigh. Chris dropped me off at the minute clinic on the way home and it only took 150 minutes to get seen and pick up my prescriptions. I will be very happy when I can kick this and resume some normalcy.