Yesterday was my fifth anniversary of dating Derek. As we were talking in the morning about the last five years and what a long time five years is, I remembered UNICEF's statistic that millions of children around the world die before their fifth birthday every year. In 2010 they estimated that 22,000 children under five die daily while the estimate for 2011 was about 6,900,000 deaths under age five. It seems wrong that many children don't get to live as long as we've been dating, so I'm going to ask everyone to consider making a donation at some point to a charity that supports child development or sign a petition if you come across one to increase child healthcare or simply think about how lucky we are to take for granted that we'll be born and live to adulthood.