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		<title>A Day At the Childrens Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a really nice day, so I decided to take the boys to the Children&#8217;s Muesum because we had nothing to do. It was basically the last warm day this week, before this cuckoo weather started to change again    , so why not try to enjoy it?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday was a really nice day, so I decided to take the boys to the Children&#8217;s Muesum because we had nothing to do. It was basically the last warm day this week, before this cuckoo weather started to change again  <img src="http://www.eternally-me.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-smiley-switcher/noktahhitam/icon_mad.gif" alt="" />   , so why not try to enjoy it?</p>

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		<title>The Bible Condemns Deadbeat&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always believed that when you get a woman pregnant whether you are married to them or not, that if you fail to provide for your child and/or children that God frowned upon you. I believe that it is a sin to do that, because it is clearly wrong. I never found any passages in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve always believed that when you get a woman pregnant whether you are married to them or not, that if you fail to provide for your child and/or children that God frowned upon you. I believe that it is a sin to do that, because it is clearly wrong. I never found any passages in the Bible on the subject of being a &#8220;deadbeat&#8221; until now:</p>
<blockquote><p>If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.<br />
<strong>1 Timonthy 5:8</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Now that I&#8217;ve read this, I know now that the father&#8217;s of my children will be judged  and punished for their actions. It makes me feel better about the situation of my children when I see that even God acknowledges it. Even though I am now married and I have a man that helps me with my children, I still remember the years when I didn&#8217;t have anyone, but myself and my own family to lean on. While I was working hard to make a way for myself and children, dealing with low paying-high labor jobs, dealing with Children &amp; Families Services, dealing with child support and not getting any help at all. They were and still are only worried about providing for themselves, doing what they want whenever they want, and having a wonderful time only worrying about themselves.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t even ask my eldest son&#8217;s father for a dime. I have to be really desperate to ask him for anything but when I did contact him on Facebook he reads my message and never responds. I&#8217;ve sent him messages prior not even asking for money and he treats me and my son like we don&#8217;t even exist.  He hasn&#8217;t seen my son for 5+ years and he won&#8217;t even acknowledge me, but proudly displays my sons name on his Facebook account like he&#8217;s such a great &#8220;dad&#8221;.</p>
<p>My youngest two father is so pathetic and it&#8217;s even shameful to think that I was with someone like him. He spends his time making Youtube video&#8217;s of skinny 18 year-old girls acting like groupies and whores. I think one of the girls are suppose to be his girlfriend. Mind you I am 26 years old, what do I look like hanging out with a bunch of 18 year old&#8217;s or having an 18 year old boyfriend? When I saw the videos I was ashamed and embarrassed to say the least. This is what I had children with and wasted 6+ years on? He claims he does all this for the boys but it doesn&#8217;t make sense. The boys will never benefit from it, only he is benefiting from entertaining his sick perversions for sex. It&#8217;s really sad and even though I will never regret having my children, I do regret having them with their father&#8217;s.</p>
<p>With all this said, I will <strong>never</strong> talk bad about their fathers to them. I believe that I really don&#8217;t have to say much because in the end actions speak louder than words, but with that said, this is exactly why Brian and I are preparing to have them adopted. Their father&#8217;s don&#8217;t care about their well-being, but my husband and I do and I believe adoption is the best option for them. We will no longer have to deal with child support, Supportkids, their father&#8217;s not providing for them, etc. Once my children and I are free of those deadbeats for good, it will be a day worth rejoicing.</p>
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		<title>Becoming a Better Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well for starters. I&#8217;ve added a neat little AJAX login to my blog so I can log in easier and so my guest can register and log in easily as well . I had a plugin installed that changed the WordPress logo to my logo on the original login page, but this plugin is even [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well for starters. I&#8217;ve added a neat little AJAX login to my blog so I can log in easier and so my guest can register and log in easily as well <img class="wpml_ico" src="http://www.eternally-me.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/noktahhitam/icon_lol.gif" alt="" />. I had a plugin installed that changed the WordPress logo to my logo on the original login page, but this plugin is even better. I hope you all find it as easy and as convenient as I have.</p>
<p>So referring to my blog title&#8230;</p>
<p>I find that at my current job(which I am quitting on <strong>August 21st</strong>), I am unusually angry by the things that I am required to do there. To help you understand, here is a typical day on the job:</p>
<p>I get to work at 8:30am, and the 2 special needs adults are both still asleep or awake. Their mother usually leaves as soon as I arrive unless she doesn&#8217;t have to work, in which she&#8217;ll leave later on in my shift to go shopping or something. Anyways, I wake them up at about 10am unless their already awake. &#8211; It&#8217;s their summer break and I feel that waking them up at 8:30am is ridiculous.</p>
<p>The next thing I do is prepare breakfast. I either make them cereal, toast, and milk, or hotcakes and bacon with milk or juice. While they are eating I administer their meds and then I clean up the kitchen. After breakfast I get them dressed. Sometimes I bathe her daughter so I can wash and style her hair.</p>
<p>Following breakfast, I do activities with them, or I allow them to watch TV or listen to music until 12:30pm. Around this time I prepare lunch for them. I then clean the kitchen again, make their beds, sometimes I have to put their clothes away and clean their rooms too. I also have to assist David in learning to tie his shoes and remind Danielle to go to the bathroom every hour. I then allow them to have some free time until my shift is complete.</p>
<p>It may sound simple, but dealing with 2 special needs adults can be very difficult because of the amount of patience it requires to deal with them. Sometimes I want to tear my hair out when David is humming or being unruly, or when Danielle is being stubborn, or vomiting everywhere. I also have to take a q-tip and clean out Danielle&#8217;s nose when it becomes clogged with mucus and boogers - <img class="wpml_ico" src="http://www.eternally-me.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/noktahhitam/icon_mrgreen.gif" alt="" /> Yuck!</p>
<p>When I worked at night I basically came in and prepared a snack for them, did activities, fed them dinner, bathed them, and got them ready for bed. My best friend does this shift now until school starts again for them.</p>
<p>After a few months of this, especially when Summer came around, I found myself becoming downright angry with my job duties. I know it&#8217;s my job and I get paid to do it, but I feel like the things I&#8217;m doing for <em>her</em> kids, I should be doing for <strong>my own</strong>. I feel like I should be at home feeding my own kids, dressing my own kids, and doing activities with my own kids. I shouldn&#8217;t be spending my hard earned money taking her kids to Wendy&#8217;s and such while mine are in daycare or at home with Brian. Am I wrong for feeling angry?</p>
<p>I  feel like this job has been taking me away from my own responsibilities as a mother. Here I am basically being a mother to another woman&#8217;s children while my daycare is caring for mine.</p>
<p>Even the way their mom treats them angers me. She doesn&#8217;t spend any quality time with her children at all. It&#8217;s like we (the caregivers) are raising her children. She took fertility pills to conceive them because she wanted children so bad, so God gives her 2 <strong>special needs</strong> children that requires even more attention than normal children and she puts them off on an agency. Diane doesn&#8217;t spend time with them in the morning because she goes straight to work and when she gets home she puts them to bed. On her off day&#8217;s she leaves and goes shopping or gets her hair done, while the caregiver cares for her children. Even on Saturday she has help. Sunday is the only day Diane spends with her own children and judging from my experience there she spends approximately a total of <strong>22 hours</strong> a week with her children if that!</p>
<p>I really think that&#8217;s fucked up. How can I go to the great lengths of using fertility meds to have children just to have someone else take care of them? Sounds crazy doesn&#8217;t it?</p>
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<p>On top of that she nit picks like crazy. If you don&#8217;t put a brush back where it was by accident, or if you don&#8217;t put away dishes you used to cook for her children. She even complained about my method of sweeping<em> her</em> kitchen floor. I wanted to cursed her out when she came at me with that one.</p>
<p>There was even a time when she had the nerve to say to me how she has to deal with her kids 24/7 while I can go home to my normal kids because this is just a job and it&#8217;s permanent for her. I could not believe what I was hearing! She was actually saying in so many words how she resents her own children! On top of that she was in error when she said she deals with them 24/7.</p>
<p>Maybe I&#8217;m reading too much into it or not, but I feel like I&#8217;ve put this job over my own children. I&#8217;m not getting compensated for it properly and I&#8217;m there all the time. I&#8217;d rather be at home doing the things that I do for her kids for my own instead. At least there is a reward in that: The opportunity to watch my children grow up and nuture them like God intended me to.</p>
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		<title>Yo Gabba Gabba</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man I am so sore today. Yesterday I decided to be an idiot and try to imitate the guy from &#8220;Yo Gabba Gabba&#8221; when he kicks and claps his hands and in my attempt my feet went from beneath me and I flew up in the air and landed on my back. My head hit [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Man I am so sore today. Yesterday I decided to be an idiot and try to imitate the guy from &#8220;<strong>Yo Gabba Gabba&#8221;</strong> when he kicks and claps his hands and in my attempt my feet went from beneath me and I flew up in the air and landed on my back. My head hit the carpet and everything. My sister and I laughed so hard because it was pretty darn goofy and my Mom just stared trying not to laugh at me and said <em>&#8220;That&#8217;s what you get for trying to mark him.&#8221;</em> At least Destin cared if I was okay. He came up to me and said <em>&#8220;Mommy, are you okay?&#8221;</em> He&#8217;s such a sweetheart. This morning I woke up with my neck all tight and my back is still sore. I&#8217;m glad my sister didn&#8217;t record that and add it to YouTube&#8230;that was so embarrassing!</p>
<p>Watch him kick his leg up in this video. It&#8217;s hilarious!</p>
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<p>My boys are so intrigued with this show. Even Jeremiah, but after watching for the first time the bright colors, the techo like music, singing, even the guy in the bright orange suit makes you just love it!</p>
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		<title>Another Uneventful Day in Ohio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a pretty uneventful day. I went downtown with my sis, called Fitworks about 3 times trying to get in touch with the guy that called me for an interview, and spent an hour at the library updating my Myspace page, doing some detective work and blogging. Oh yeah and I&#8217;m still working on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today was a pretty uneventful day. I went downtown with my sis, called Fitworks about 3 times trying to get in touch with the guy that called me for an interview, and spent an hour at the library updating my Myspace page, doing some detective work and blogging. Oh yeah and I&#8217;m still working on potty training Destin so he can go to preschool in a few months.</p>
<p>Well that&#8217;s how my day went. Very boring and lame&#8230; HA HA yeah!</p>
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