For the past eight weeks, I have been working with a great organization called Mending Kids International. Mending Kids brings children from around the world to the Los Angeles area for life saving surgeries. My husband and I have been foster parents to an amazing five year old little girl from Ecuador. Her name is…
“All I want for Christmas is a family.†These words are repeated by so many of the foster children who are asked to fill out a wish list at Christmas. What is even more heartbreaking is these children have the same wish every day of the year. You see, these are children who are in…
Twenty eight years ago I brought my newborn son home from the hospital. I was afraid and totally unprepared; armed only with two books: my Dr. Spock and “The First Twelve Months of Life”. It didn’t take long for the first signs to appear. Michael didn’t roll over, crawl, walk or talk in a “normal”…
Along with their Christmas gifts, everyone in my family will receive one compact fluorescent bulb this year. And I hope they will make good use of it. I hope it will lead them to replace just one more bulb, and then one more… If each household in the US replaced just ONE regular light bulb…
I have a volunteer’s heart. I want to help. I want to make it better. I want you to feel better, to live longer, to smile. I want to ease a little of your burden so that you can walk with a lighter step. I don’t even need to know your name. And I don’t…