Fake Bloggers

There have been a few blogs that have been outed as fake the past few weeks such as the Baby April Rose hoax and the Cynthiaa/Aiden bug blog.

I admit that I got completely sucked in to Cynthiaa's blog. In the beginning of February she blogged that at 38 weeks pregnant she had lost her baby to a cord strangulation. I cried my eyes out as I read her posts about losing her baby. That is a loss like no other and a loss that you never get over. I couldn't imagine how you deal with such a loss.

It was only 3 weeks after Cynthiaa lost her baby that we lost our niece. My Sister in law went into labor at 32 weeks and Shana was born and lived for 3 hours before the angels took her. I contacted Cynthiaa for some advice on what to say/do for my brother and sister in law. She emailed me her thoughts and said she would be happy to talk to Dawn if I wanted to give her her contact info.

Not too long after she started changing the name of her blog and it pretty much was one day she was mourning the loss of her son and then all her blogs had to do with fashion finds. But everyone grieves differently so I didn't think much of it. Then a few weeks ago I clicked on her blog and she had made it private which was really strange. And then I was reading another blog and it was mentioned that Cynthiaa's was a hoax.

This bothers me GREATLY because we actually lost our niece and my brother and sister in law will never be the same. And for her to make up this story for readers and attention is deplorable. And thank goodness I did not pass along any contact info! Can you imagine how betrayed you would feel if you had divulged your feelings to someone that you thought was going through the same things to find out they are a fraud? I think that this fake blog bothers me the most because it is something that we are actually living through.

Happy Father's Day Ryan!

I want to wish my wonderful hubby a very Happy Father's Day! He works very hard to provide for us and doesn't get enough recognition for it! I am so blessed to be married to him and I love him dearly. He is a wonderful father to Madison and Cooper and I look forward to many more happy years! I love you!!

It's Highly Contagious....

I took the kids to the park this morning. And while I was pushing Cooper in the swing and Madison was whining about wanting to swing a Mom showed up with her kids for soccer practice. We will call her SM (sick Mom). So SM comes up to the Mom that is pushing her kid who is next to Cooper. We will call her HM (healthy Mom). So SM says to HM I think I need a doctor or a nurse. So my ears perk right up. SM continues to say look at my daughters hands she has a red rash on them and it has some blisters. HM says oh it looks like hand, foot and mouth disease and my kids have had that before. She then goes to say "IT IS HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS"!! And HM says I'm not crazy when it comes to germs so it doesn't bother me if SM stays at the park. What!?!? What about all the other kids?? So SM starts freaking out about how SHE doesn't want to get sick. Have I mentioned that her kids are running around the playground TOUCHING everything!

SM finally says "maybe we shouldn't be here" YA THINK!?! Does she go and get her highly contagious kids and leave? Nope! She continues to go on and on about how she doesn't want to get sick, how could this be happening to her, blah blah. I'm totally freaking out in my head because we are leaving for PA for vacation Tuesday. I say to Madison go get your cup we are leaving! And in her quiet 4 year old voice wants to know why we are leaving when we had just gotten there. Now I'm whispering to her to get her stuff we are leaving because there are sick kids there. And again in her quiet 4 year old voice wants to know why they are at the park if they are sick. I finally get them over to the car and douse their hands in hand sanitizer! And then gave them more sanitizer. Thankfully the kids weren't too close to the sick ones and I know that they didn't touch anything that the sick kids did. After we left we went to another park where Madison and Cooper were the only ones and they had a lot of fun!

Our Crazy Weekend

Last weekend was NUTS for us. Friday and Saturday I participated in a neighborhood garage sale. I also had 2 friends and my mother in law bring things over to sell. Thursday night my friend and I were setting up and she really had me worried! All these stories from people she knows. Like people showing up at 6am for a 9am sale. Or opening the garage door to find 40 people waiting for me and what not. I barely slept Thursday night I was so worried! I got up early on Friday (6am) and got everything set up and no one showed up till 9 and it was a steady stream but not the mad rush I was expecting. We did really well on Friday. It was steady all day. I got up at 6am again on Saturday to set up. I figured it would be busier on Saturday because people don't have to work. It's 7am and I am looking down the driveway and hanging out the window looking for people. Ryan was totally making fun of me! We didn't get our first customer till 10am! It was dead all day. It was not worth doing it on Saturday. Good to know for next time!

Sunday Ryan had a rock crawling event. Since it was so close to our house I went with him. (He usually goes to PA once a month to 4 wheel but I have never been there with him). He wasn't 10 feet on the rocks when he broke a bunch of stuff on his jeep. I'm talking $500 worth of parts (hazards of the sport!). So he was done for the day. We hung out for the day and watched everyone else and had dinner at a yummy Mexican restaurant. We get home about 6ish and I said to him "can you get my stuff out of the jeep". (My purse and camera). I was still getting stuff out of the suburban when I hear a thud and him yelling for me. So I go hauling butt to the other side of the trailer and he is laying on the ground holding his head. And he is telling me his ankle hurts. I'm of course more concerned about the fact that he is holding his head! I finally figured out he didn't hit his head but when he jumped off the trailer he landed in a hole and busted up his ankle. So I help him hop into the house. He couldn't put any weight on it and we were concerned that he could have broken it. We argued about going to the hospital. He didn't want to go. We put the kids to bed and then he had to bleed a guys breaks before he would go to the hospital!! He is so stubborn!

The ER was REALLY fast! From the time we left our house till the time we got back was only 2 hours. I wheel him into the ER and the girl at the desk says "can I help you?" and Ryan says "I'm having a baby". LMAO!!! So we get signed in and Ryan is in the wheel chair trying to pop wheelies and we are kitty corner to this other girl. Well this girls friend shows up and she was interesting! She comes in and starts talking to this other girl saying how she is loosing her voice and her Mom told her she must be smoking too much weed and that is why she is loosing her voice! And the girl goes on to say how dumb her Mom is and that she isn't smoking weed. She then says that her Mom told her if she wasn't loosing her voice from smoking weed than she must be loosing it from having too much sex! (They couldn't have been older than 18 or so). It was so strange because after that little story she gets up and leaves.

Anywho, Ryan gets called back to triage and the nurse is asking questions and says "you live with your wife?" and Ryan says "currently"!!! He is too funny sometimes. After some x-rays it turns out it was a bad sprain. For our $100 copay he got an advil and an ace bandage! Better to get it checked out though. He was off of work for 2 days and he is almost 100%. Oh after we got home from the hospital we were both tired and all Ryan wanted to do was lay in bed and watch t.v. He turns on the t.v. and the fuse blows. TV won't work. I kid you not.