Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
Making a difference
Is one of your goals in 2009 to volunteer your time? Do you want to make a difference in the world? Here are a couple of great organizations to get you started:Posted by life.w.purpose at 4:24 PM 0 comments Links to this post
Another gift that gives back
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
You can do bad all by yourself !!!
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The loss of a child....
I have read some blogs of fellow "Mommy Bloggers" talking about the recent death of a two year old boy Bryson Ross. His mother, Shellie, is a blogger and twitter user like myself. Her two year old son fell into a pool and drowned. She tried to save him, and somewhere between his falling into the water and him being pronounced dead she twitted "Pray like never before, My son fell into the pool."
Apparently there have been many people online attacking this woman and saying that if she had not been online her son would still be alive. This woman is a military mom and alot of her support seems to come from her online community. Though she does have many supporters here, I can imagine that she cannot turn on her computer without also running into the negative, hurtful things being said about her.
Can you imagine? It's right before Christmas, you just lost your two year old son to a very unfortunate ACCIDENT and there are people blaming you??!! There have been tv interviews, e-mails, online polls, tweets on twitter and countless attacks on this woman. Do these people have no heart?
Mothers (and Fathers too) I want you to think back to when your children were little, or perhaps they are small now. Think about how many accident you have avoided, a toddler nearly running in the road, nearly falling in the tub or pool. Maybe they climbed up and got ahold of a knife or other sharp object. Now think what is you had turned you back during that "almost time" and God forbid something happend to your child. Surely you would feel tremendous loss, sadness and guilt. Can you imagine what it would feel like to then have people viciously telling lies about you and saying you are at fault for your child's death?!!
I can honestly say I have a small fraction on an inkling of how this might feel. When my beautiful little girl was a baby she had a pretty bad accident. I had newly moved into the family dorm at my college. There was base board heat but it was on top of another baseboard so it was pretty close to my mattress. I was breastfeeding my daughter in my bed and she fell asleep. I quietly went back out into the main room to shut down the computer and turn off the lights. When I returned to my bedroom all I saw was her behind and legs, she was upside down between the bed and the wall and her head was on the heating unit. It was the most horrific moment of my life. I rushed her to the hospital. They shaved my baby's head because she had a large blister on the top of her head. They watched me closely and questioned me and thought that I may have injured my daughter. I am in the hospital just wanting to be with my baby and they are taking me into a room with all these people (and cops) questioning me about my parenting. I brought them all to my dorm and showed them the baseboard heat and how close it was to the mattress and how she was found...after seeing this and talking to my child's daycare, doctor, and family they apologized and said they were wrong about me.The baseboard heat was WAY too hot and way too high. After the horrific night I had that apology meant jack. My daughter doesn't remember these events but she will always have the small bald patch on her head where she was burned. I will always live with the guilt of having left my baby in bed for those few minutes, always wonder what if I had not returned so quickly. I will probably always tear up remembering that night....
My nightmare is over....but this woman's story turned out differently. She lost her baby boy. Added to the tremendous pain and loss is guilt. WHY are these people kicking this woman when she is down? How heartless do you have to be to say the things they are saying to a grieving mother? I just can't imagine how you could try and put yourself in her shoes and still say these horrible things to her.
I just want to show my support for this mother, and let her know so many of us are praying for her. Our hearts go out to her, her other child and her family. Let God hold you in his arms during this very painful time.
Peace and Blessings ~Jennifer
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Good Riddance 2009!!
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