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Moving day

Well I have pinched myself a hundred times and nothing has changed so I must not be dreaming.  Today we’re moving into Papa Charlies house.  It’s a beautiful 4 bedroom brick home, not just a house.  Each room is decorated beautifully and we are going to leave it just as Papa Charlie had it.  The children are so excited that they will each have their own bedroom.

We have a chance at a new life now.  We struggled so hard for so long that I’m not sure how to act right now.  I keep thinking I’m going to wake up and it’s all going to just be a dream or someone is going to come in and say ‘There’s been a mistake, get out.’  I guess it will take me awhile to settle in and believe it’s all real.

I have paid off everything I owed with my monthly allowance because everything was paid up in full until the middle of next month and I’ll get my allowance the beginning of each month.  Plus I still have my job and will keep it until I decide what I want to go to college for and start classes.  Just because we have been given this wonderful gift, I’m not going to relax and blow it, that’s for sure.  That would be almost like spitting in Charlies face and I’m not about to do that.

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The kids are over the moon

I finally have a minute to write a blog.  The kids are absolutely over the moon.  They haven’t slowed down long enough to hardly sleep since they opened all of their presents and Santa came.  I think this has been the best Christmas they have ever had.

There was absolutely nothing they asked for that they didn’t get.  In fact, they got more……….much more than they asked for.  Nothing does a mothers heart better than to see their children happy on Christmas.  I am truly blessed to have my children and the people around me that have filled my life with so much love and joy.  I only hope you have the same.  God bless you each and all.  Now on to a new year!!!!

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Haiti

Haiti is such a poor country with so much poverty that we Americans could not imagine.  We think we have it bad, we live like kings compared to the people of Haiti.  They suffer every day and then something as horrific as this happens.

“Three days after the concrete building suddenly collapsed during a children’s party, killing at least 94 students and adults and severely injuring 150 more, Capt. Michael Isetan of Fairfax County, Va., said the chance of more survivors was remote. He also said the death toll won’t likely go much higher. U.S., French and Haitian firefighters used sonar, cameras and dogs Monday in the search for victims at a collapsed Haitian school, but as the stench of death rose from the wreckage, they no longer expected to find anyone else alive.” was written on November 10th.

What an awful tragedy. They are not even sure just how many people were in the building when it collapsed, though the school is believed to have had about 500 students. Haitian officials said some had time to escape when it began to fall. Some students weren’t at the school during the collapse because La Promise was holding a party requiring a donation of about 50 cents that poorer families could not afford, said Deputy Steven Benoit, who represents the area in the Chamber of Deputies.

That was one time that being poor probably was a blessing to some of those people because at least their children are still alive. My heart breaks at the thought of all of those children being trapped and killed in a building that should have been the safest place for them to be and yet it turned into a living HELL for the whole community.

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What a shame

Did you hear about the man that came from Ohio to Atlanta Georgia for his fathers funeral and was shot and killed while in Atlanta?  That was absolutely awful.  Someone apparently tried to carjack him and killed him in the process.  Now the poor family is not only mourning the loss of a father but also his son.

What is wrong with this world?  What evil has taken over so much so that innocent people are killed for their vehicle?  Is it drugs or just plain old evil?  I wish I knew the answer so that something could be done about it.  There are so many people suffering because of violence that is senseless.

There was a 10 year old boy that went to a door on Halloween, the light was on so the child thought they were handing out candy.  His parents watched as he knocked on the door and the man inside shot through the door 28 times with an assault rifle thinking someone was trying to break in.  Can you imagine the horror these parents felt watching someone shoot 28 times at their son, killing him instantly.  They don’t want the man put to death, they want him to have to live with what he did to their child.  I can’t say as I blame them.

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Did you vote?

I sure hope you took the time to go out and vote.  I am both ashamed and proud to let you know that this is the first year I have ever voted.  I was eligible the last time but had my head up something and didn’t realize the importance of it.  Now I do.  This is one of the most important rights we as Americans have and we should all exercise that right and vote.

Someone heard me complaining about something to do with our government and asked me if I voted in the last election.  I told them I had not and they told me I had no right to say anything then because I left it up to everyone else to choose our current government and if I wanted the right to complain, then I needed to vote.  Then and only then, they said, did I have a right to complain.  I thought about what they had said and I agree with them.  Well this time, I did my civic duty and I voted.  I hope you did too.

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Happy Birthday Girlfriend

Today is my best friend in the worlds birthday.  We have been best friends since 4th grade.  That’s a long time.  She’s not only one of the most caring people I know, but also a great mother.  She has two daughters and the youngest was born just 4 weeks after my youngest.  The coolest part of that is her daughter and my son are best friends too.  Isn’t that just the sweetest thing?  I think so.

I was trying to decide what to get her for her birthday and decided the best thing I can do is to get her a Visa gift card.  That way, she can spend it how ever she wants.  She can go have her hair done, buy some new clothes for herself or take her girls out on the town and enjoy the day together if she wants.  I got her a nice card and mailed it so that she will get it this weekend and hopefully have a great weekend.  She already had some plans for today so that’s why I waited.

HERE’S TO YOU GIRLFRIEND!!!!!

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13 is my lucky number but not O.J.’s

There is a part of me that feels terribly sorry for O. J.  Simpson and then there’s the other part.  Here was a GREAT MAN who has turned into the worst example of a Sports (former) Hero there is.  He has thought for too long that he could get away with anything and everything but not this time.

I’m sure most everyone has heard about all the 13’s involved in his trial and his life in the past 13 years so I won’t go into all of them but it is quite a coincidence.  The funniest part to me is that 13 has always been my lucky number.  I guess it only works in good ways for some and obviously not in a good way for O. J.

I only hope and pray that his children do not have to suffer anymore.  They have paid the biggest price for all of the messes O. J. has created in the past 13 years.  Maybe 13 is their lucky number and now their father can’t make a fool of himself anymore and will humble himself and be the man he should have been for more than just the past 13 years.  We can only hope and pray for the children’s sake.

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Computer error causes death

Life just isn’t fair when you lose someone you love to cancer but to lose them to a computer error is unbelievable.  That’s exactly what happened to a 27 year old man in England that was suffering from testicular cancer.  He was happy to get into an drug trial because he was told this would increase his chances of survival.  This man was engaged to be married.

A computer error caused him to be given double the amount of chemotherapy needed over a four month period.  This slowly poisoned him and he died.  There was another man also given an overdose of chemotherapy but he survived.

Computers are only as reliable as the person operating it and there should have been something written into what ever program written for this trial that would warn them that too much medication, chemotherapy or anything else that was to be given to patients had been ordered but it seems that the computer was what was ordering it.  Wasn’t a doctor paying attention?  I would have thought a doctor would have been checking behind what was being given.  A computer has no heart and soul and can’t think for itself like humans are supposed to be able to do.  The doctor over this should lose his license or be reprimanded at least.  What a shame.

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Conductor was texting

Oh my goodness, I just heard that the conductor of the passenger train was sending text messages on his phone, missed a signal and that’s what caused the crash of the two trains.  The conductor was one of the people that lost their lives that day.

People should already know not to text and drive a car so why wouldn’t he have known better than to do it on a train with so many peoples lives are supposed to be in his hands and not his cell phone.  I really feel sorry for whoever he was sending text messages because they are probably going to feel responsible.  I would if I was the one that was texting him.  One things for sure, I sure as heck won’t text and drive anything.

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Trains collide in California

A commuter train and a freight train collided in California killing at least 25 people.  How could this happen?  It’s obvious to me that someone somewhere was not paying attention and set these two trains on a collision course.  They think the number of injured is around 130 people.  The mayor of Los Angeles said this is the worst accident he has ever seen.  I’m sure that’s true for the approximately 250 firefighters that responded too.

Then less than an hour after that, a woman was killed in her car when it was hit by a train in Corona California.  The two had nothing to do with each other but what a coincidence,  I don’t think I would want to ride a train or go near the tracks in California.   My prayers are with the injured and the family of the many that lost their lives.