D-Backs Game and a Funny Homeless Man

A friend and I braved a Diamondbacks game with 7 boys yesterday and we lived to blog about it! The boys had a great time getting autographs before the game and hoping for a foul ball to come their way during the game. They even managed to talk one of the stadium camera guys into putting them up on the screen between innings. The picture is blurry but RJ is the one holding the giant red finger in the front of the picture.

The idea behind taking the boys to the game was to get them out of the house away from the video games that seem to take over summers in our hot climate...that mission failed and we had to drag them away from this to see start of the game!

They are a really great group of boys that has a lot of fun together.

And now to the funny homeless man story. As we were leaving the stadium there was a homeless man sitting with a cardboard sign that read: Ninjas killed my family - I need money for Kung Fu lessons to avenge their deaths. LOL - who knew homeless people could be so funny.

Finally - It's A Girl!!!

Ok, so she doesn't really live with us, she lives in Ghana! We are sponsoring a child -a girl -from Ghana through Compassion International. I chose Ghana because of my friend Jen who has/is adopting children from Ghana. I was touched by her first hand description of the poverty in Ghana and also by how kind the people were to her when she was there. To follow her blog about adopting from Ghana click here. One of the reasons Jen chose Ghana was that her Great Uncle, Father Fran, was a missionary priest there. I had the privilege of knowing Father Fran when he came on visits to the states and the stories he told of the people of Ghana were always touching.

I would love to adopt a little girl and bring her home to live with us but then I would have to find another husband as my current husband feels that we are maxed out on our household child capacity! So, this is the best way I felt I could help out a child that needs it. Our child is Jennifer and she is the same age as RJ. Someday I will figure out how to post her picture but today I am not feeling very tech savvy. The people that I spoke to at Compassion International tell me that I can write letters and send gifts to Jennifer but my monthly sponsorship will be the greatest help of all to her. She will have clean water, food, medical care and an education. This is an area of the world that is hard hit by the AIDS epidemic and there are many children waiting for a sponsor. If you feel at all led, I would encourage you to visit the Compassion website for more information here. It costs less a month than most of us spend on Starbucks!