Archive for the ‘Tragedy’ Category

Seeing the bodies just lined up on the streets in Haiti on the television just absolutely kills me. Just knowing that these are people’s family members laying there, dead, in a pile. I know there is no way around this due to how poor their country is and how much chaos this disaster has caused [...]

The word above describes how I feel right now for the people of Haiti. It seems so unfair that this is happening to people who have already been down on their luck for so many years. There are going to be thousands of lives lost and my heart is with every single one of the [...]

A very good friend of mine is starting out the new year in a way that no one should ever have to. Her 8 month old nephew was found not breathing during his nap time at daycare yesterday. The staff tried CPR and called an ambulance. He was unable to breathe on his own so [...]

This month has flown by. I really cannot believe Christmas is on Friday. How does that happen?
This hasn’t been a very happy month. On Monday night our Carbon Monoxide detector went off around 2 AM or so. It was reading about 50. Gene would crack the door and the number would go down to zero. [...]

Today has not been a good Napping Type Of Day, if ya know what I mean. She took a good 2 hour nap this morning and has been down for a good hour now but during both naps, she has woken up crying several times and I’ve had to shush her back to sleep. I [...]

The whole Virginia Tech thing is just ridiculous. The sadness is tremendous. I feel so awful for these people. The kids. Some of them just barely out of high school. But age doesn’t matter. They’re all innocent college students and professors. I can’t even really talk about it much because it just pisses me off. [...]

I wish I had more to say but I don’t. These last few days have been pretty busy. My plan was to get Gene up on the roof this afternoon to take down our Christmas lights while the weather is nice but things changed quickly. We walked out of Kohls to the car and the [...]