A Smile and More On Haiti

With all that is going on in the world right now, we could all use a little something to make us smile. It's pretty hard not to smile when a precocious 3 1/2 year old comes down the hall in her jammies adorned in a tutu, high heels and crazy hat. It's also hard not to smile when she asks you to take her picture and then tells her baby to make sure to smile if she wants to get some frozen yogurt later. Pretty charming for a kid who just yesterday had a chest x-ray because she can't seem to stop wheezing, even with antibiotics to fight the boogers that seem hell bent on world domination. It appears that this spunky little lady has been bebopping along, happy as can be, with pneumonia (thankfully it's very mild). The hippie in me wishes the little ladies were living life au natural but right now the realist in me in pretty thankful for strong drugs.

For those of you that are following orphan crisis in Haiti and the huge fiasco caused by "The Ill-Informed American Do-gooders" (sounds like a great name for a band to me), you may want to check out this week's story from Here and Now that features a woman from Save the Children. Also worth checking out are Randy Boehler's and The Howertons' (adoptive parents of a Haitian child brought to the US after the earthquake) comments on Unicef's role in the current situation.

Do your best to find something to smile about today and maybe later you'll get some frozen yogurt out of it.