8/23/10

This morning both Bri and I woke up and felt terrible. Our whole bodies ached. We ended up staying home, taking some Tylenol PM and crashing for the rest of the morning. By the afternoon, we were both feeling back to normal. I think we just needed some rest. We have been running all day everyday this past week, and we haven't been sleeping very well at all (because of the dogs and the construction). We wanted to go to school, but we figured that we should just stay home, get rest, and be ready for the week.

Later today, we went to the children's home that Nerina works with called Home of Comfort. These kids were so sweet and loving! Most of the children are orphans, but some are not. Those children that are not orphans have been removed from abusive / neglective homes. In some situations, the children are HIV+, but the biological parents won't bother to give them the medication. In South Africa, one a child is abused, abandoned or neglected, the biological parent loses all right to the child forever. Home of Comfort is set up so that there are 4 houses. Each house has a boys room, a girls room, and one or two babies. Each home also has 2 home mothers that are in charge of the children in their house. The home can hold a maximum of 57 children, and right now it is completely full. The stories of each of these children just breaks your heart. Each home mother is trained on how to take care of the medication for HIV+ children as well as the requirements for their special diet.

This little girl was attached to us from the moment we picked her up :) She is a cutie and has such a sweet smile.

These group of kids sang us a song.

This is one of the little babies.

She loved playing with Bri's hair! She would pet it and pull it - she even pulled out a couple strands ;)

He LOVED the camera

This little girl is a twin. Her and her brother weren't supposed to live when they were found (they only weighed a couple of pounds each), but they are growing bigger and stronger each day.