How Can We Protect our kids?

It seems that anymore we can not get through a week without another innocent child going missing, or worse yet having the body of one found. As a parent I lie awake many a night trying not to think about all the "what ifs" there are in this world.

I want so much for my kids to be strong, independent individuals. How do I mesh this with the ever growing desire to encase them in a bubble or their very own bio dome? My daughter was recently invited to her first birthday party/ sleepover the other day. I had to decline the sleep over party of the invitation, and I stayed to help out with the party. I was just not comfortable leaving my child at someones house whom I had never met...would you have? I definitely could not leave them over night.

Like I said I do not want to make them fearful of the world, but now that they have to be out in it more without my husband or myself, how do I keep them safe? I think there is a healthy amount of fear, like teaching kids that fire is hot, etc but I don't want them to be afraid of EVERYTHING.

Ugh... how does any parent survive parenthood?!

MISSING BABY UPDATE

Remember how I said to keep your eyes open for that missing baby? I was right, they let the person of interest go. I clicked on the link at the bottom of the foxnews article where it said see more from the local news on this case.... well there had been an update. I do not know why they did not update it on foxnews.com.

They do have a video of a KIA that appears to have followed the mother of the baby. They are saying it appears to have out of state ( This happened in Tennessee) plates, but do not say what kind. Someone like this could go anywhere, so please, please keep on the look out!

Thank you.

Here is a link to the Tennesee Fox News channel report WZTV Fox 17

How's Your Credit?

Everywhere you look these days you see ads, billboards, and TV commercials about credit repair. The reason the ads are everywhere is because credit is becoming more and more important to the modern existence. When my parents were buying their first house credit was important of course, but it was not the obsession it is these days.

Now we have to do all we can to keep our credit in order, and we need to repair bad credit as soon as we possibly can if we want to survive. Even if you do not have horrible credit it still helps to improve credit scores when ever you can. You will save money on interest rate in the long run by having a better score.

Just because you have good enough credit to get credit cards or loans, does not mean that you can not do better. I do not know anyone who wants to pay more in interest than they have to. One site you can go to to learn more about credit repair is Repairyourbadcredit.com. From what I read on the site they seem to have quite a few satisfied customers. I think I might have to show the site to my hubby and look into it farther.

Help Find Missing Baby

I watched the news earlier tonight, something I don't do as often as I used to. I like to stay informed of current events, but there is so much bad news that some nights I just can't take it some days.

I almost could not decide which thing I wanted to blog about first, and then I heard the story of the missing 4 day old baby. I guess some whack job posed as an immigration agent and went to the house of Maria Gurolla, she then demanded that hand over her newborn. When
Gurolla refused the suspect then stabbed her 8 times and took the baby.

Just a few minutes ago I went to foxnews.com so that I could link to the story. It says that they have a suspect,,,err person of interest,,,, SUSPECT...in custody, but that the baby has not yet been found. I say to all of you out there, please keep your eyes open. This could be the wrong woman, or she is the right woman and has hidden the baby somewhere. Either way this case is not over, please help this baby get home!

You can click on the link above to see pics of the baby, and the person that is in custody. They are looking for a woman about 5'4'' , heavy set, and blond. They woman in custody fits that description, but I do not know what they have not said for sure if she is the right woman or not, so keep looking.

May God be watching over this little one and the mother who miraculously survived the attack. I pray she is reunited with her baby soon!

Does Your Windows Keep Crashing?

I hate it when my computer gets all nuts on me. It never fails and it usually strikes when I am right in the middle of a project or a long letter or something. I do scan disk and disk clean up with regularity, but it doesn't seem to keep my computer in order.

I have been looking into all this talk of registry problems on a computer. They say that registry errors are one of the biggest culprits when it comes to your computer slowing down. Have you ever used a registry cleaner? I found this site called Regwork.com that offers an xp registry cleaner program.

The site offers a free download and scan of your computer. I think you then have to pay for registry repair, but hey at least they let you try it for free right? Then if you find any errors you can fix them. Anything that will help my computer run faster and smoother sounds great to me. If you are having any problems with a sluggish PC, you might want to check this site out.

A Foul Family Tragedy

It was not many days ago that we all had our hearts warmed by the story of the dad and the little girl at the ballgame. The dad caught a fly ball and handed it to his daughter, who in turn threw it back onto the field. That story was so sweet and wonderful.

I just gt done reading about another family trip to the ballpark that did not end as well. Chad and Nicole Holko had taken there 4 year old son Luke to see a game the other day. What started out as a fun family night out turned into a living nightmare. Seconds after Luke Holko mugged for some happy go lucky photos, tragedy struck, leterally. Poor little Luke was hit in the head by a foul ball and immediately went into some sort of shock or seizure.

His father rushed Luke down the concourse to paramedics that were on site. Luke was rushed to a local hospital and then quickly into surgery. He made it through surgery and was in a induced coma. Since awakening he is doing better than doctors would have expected at this point, so that is a very good sign. I hope and pray that this family gets their little boy back to 100% as soon as possible.

Even as I type this I have a knot in my stomach just thinking about what the Holkos must be going through. Kids seem to recover a lot better than adult do so there is that plus in Luke's favor. Did this happen to save other kids from the same injury? Maybe they should make those batter's helmets regulation for any child attending a game? Heck, it probably would not be a bad idea for all attendees to wear head protection.

I do not know the answers, I just hope that this little boy gets back to being a little boy. God bless Luke, his family and loved ones!

A Complete Water Workout

Many of you know that water exercises like swimming or even just walking in a pool can be great exercise. If you enjoy water workouts, you have to check out this website, Hydroworx.com. They have the most awesome water workout pool I have ever seen.

I have seen lap pools for home use, but nothing like this before. These Hydroworx pools seem to be about the size of a lap pool but it also has built in aquatic therapy equipment and a water treadmill , yes you heard me I water treadmill! That is just so cool!

This is more like a Swim Spa than a pool. There are therapeutic jets and resistance swimming jets. This pool has it all. Not all of us could afford one of these for the home, but if I could I would sure get one. It says that residential versions start around 32,000, that really does not sound that bad to me for all that it does.

If you have a spa, gym, or therapy business I would definitely check this equipment out. Then let me know where you are so I can come and try it out! LOL!