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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Sweet Lullaby

I took these pictures of M and T sleeping last night.  Sleeping children are precious and I don't want to forget these moments. :)

(All snuggled in with her bear and blanket [she doesn't like to sleep under her comforter because she has just started to make her own bed and she doesn't want to make it messy. :) ] with some of her doll house toys at the bottom of the bed.)


(Admittedly blurry--I didn't want to wake him up.  But look at his little bum up in the air, his bear under his arm and the toy garbage truck in his bed [no falling out of this bed!].)


I recently came across this short, sweet song on YouTube and am so touched by the words and images.  I just tucked M and T in for their afternoon naps--read them a book and gave them each a little snuggle.  It completely breaks my heart to see pictures of rows of sleeping children without a family...  Even on a day when I struggle with patience, in the end, it is so not okay that there are so many orphans...

Orphan Lullaby by Lindsey Teefey...



I also updated my music on the right with some African and Ethiopian (in particular) music.  If you have any good recommendations, please let me know! :)

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Children's Books

Putting together a big order of books from Amazon.  For Christmas we got M this book...

The author retells fairy tales and puts them in African settings.  The illustrations are beautiful!  Going to get a few more. :)