Such a full day yesterday, that I actually fell into bed at 11. Didn’t even finish a full chapter of Harry Potter.
I went to lunch with the entire office (all 4 of us) yesterday at a terrific little barbeque place called Jim & Nick’s. They have these mini cheese muffins they put on the table that are sooooo sinfully delicious. It’s so nice to work in a tiny office, where lawyers and staff can just relax and visit together over lunch.
As soon as we got home, we headed to Sams. I was advised by my computer guy to get the Norton Systemworks anti-virus program, and Sams has the best price on it. I am going to install it today, if I can figure out how to dismantle the old one and install this one.
Sams is a wonderland to my kids. So many free samples beckon to them. In fact, when I told Michael about going there the other day his face lit up and he hollered “The sample place! Yessss!”
Of course, we found a lot of other things, too. We really should go more often, because we are careful to only buy things we use, and we save money.
I had Alesia put in the frozen pizza into the oven – I was too tired to really cook last night. I went down a little while later and thought it was very strange that there was smoke pouring out. Alesia had put it in there WITH the cardboard circle still underneath it! I tried hard not to blow my top. I showed her where it says on the box to remove the cardboard. Thank God I was in the kitchen, because she could’ve started a fire. Yikes.
Here's Alesia in Helen Georgia. I like this for two reasons. One, that's her un-strightened natural hair, which is beautiful. Two, it shows some of the architecture of Helen - it's meant to look like a German village, and it mostly accomplishes that.
RANT
I looked at Adoption Under One Roof article about children in Africa yesterday and got so mad at an article about children orphaned by AIDS in Africa. There are 15 MILLION of them! They are starving to death, many of them. What is Unicef doing? Very little. One thing they are definitely not doing is making it easier for the children to be adopted internationally. Ethiopia is thinking about closing all adoptions, for example. UNICEF has the official position that the children should stay in their birth country.
I always thought UNICEF was a great organization, but lately I have seen a lot of criticism of UNICEF from folks in the adoption world. This really disturbed me:
“Unfortunately UNICEF is anti-intercountry adoption and will watch children die before they will help promote legal and ethical adoption. To date they have done everything in their power to shut down adoption in third world countries without providing any new solutions. Allowing a few thousand children a year to be adopted from any of these countries would not rob any country of their upcoming generation as their chance of survival in that country at this time is miniscule. Through adoption many of these children will probably grow up with the desire to help their fellow countrypeople when they are adults.”
I left a comment and asked what I could do and someone suggested joining the JCICS - the Joint Council on International Adoption. I am going to do that. I wish I could do more.
