we are not awesome. definitely not.

ouch.
my heart hurts.39 kids.  with HIV.  waiting in Eastern Europe for someone to find them and give them a future.   Maybe someone reading this post will feel led to love one of them.  Or maybe to donate a few dollars so that someone else could give them a family.Currently, these kids have ZERO dollars in their sponsorship funds.

a great day.
We had a great Thanksgiving at my parents house.  Lots of kids, lots of food, an all ages game of soccer.  Too fun!!  and so much to be thankful for!!!!!

Faith Fridays. the house.
***deep breath***This is a difficult post to write. I have decided to live my life in Christ out loud and on the internet - to His Glory - and so I try hard to be transparent in ALL of my life. Now it's time to write about the house.Eleven years ago, God blessed us with a beautiful home. We had begun to feel crowded in our old house and wanted more room to spread out. The payments were all that we could handle but we took the leap and moved in. Over the years, LaRue had remodeled almost all of it and molded it to perfectly suit our family. Over the years, as we pursued the 'American Dream' of acquiring more and more stuff, we also acquired more a

a new way to give.

about the meds.
Courtney had asked a great question about the meds so I thought that I'd go ahead and answer it with a post.How do they decide when a child needs to go on meds? If their counts are low enough, do the doctors just wait to give meds or do they start them to help keep the counts low? Please, in case you need reminding, I am a total rookie at all of this stuff. Everything I have learned has been by 'crash course' and I learn more every day. So, with that disclaimer, I am happy to share what I am learning along the way.There are two numbers that we use to assess the health of Jacob's immune system. The first is the CD4 count which measures how well