Babies @ MindSay

Growing Up Old...

 

Does that mean anything anymore? When our grandmothers and great great fathers were getting married in their time age was irrelevant to thier situations. At that time you had to grow up immediatly to survive. Ethics, hard work and responsibility were given to the very young, therefore they were able to be a responsible married adult at 18 ... 16.... whatever!

 

Today life for many is much different. Crime is ravaging our home towns, drugs are infecting the minds of our future. How did the values of our ancestors get so lost so fast? More and more our society is becomhing home to children raising children. When you become a parent, your children are first in everything you do, their safety and happiness is on the fore front. However when you are just a child yourself, riasing one can be a daunting task. Now, I am not saying that all teenage parents and parents in their early 20's are terrible parents, but if you look at the statitics of our growing population and the stats of young parents then talk to a teacher you start to see a pattern.

 

I grew up in a small but quickly booming town. By the time I was a Junior in high school there were over 900 incoming freshmen. I think, for what ever reason, my classmates and I grew up a little too quickly. Some of us are mature enough to handle the effects of our changing lives, but others I fear will fall into the cracks of this age's stereo-typical society.

 

Granted I got married at 18 ( a month after high school) I am ticked, utterly peeved at the fact that everyone around me will soon be married parents at 21!!! My husband and I got to know eachother as friends for three years in high school, then as lovers for a year until we got married. Now we have been happily together ( and unhappily) for three years. We are childless and plan to stay that way for quite some time. Although we want nothing more than to hold our future children in our arms at this very moment. We have higher priorities so that we can provide for the family we are meant to have together with out fear.

 

I have counted over 20 women I graduated with just three short years ago that are on their way or are already mothers and wives. Most of whome are not with the father of their children, or were only married for less than six months, or even less than a week in one case, and most only knew their husband for a year, a year, before they got married. Is one year actually long enough to get to understand what someone is capable of?

 

Many of these past and present friends like to comment on the similarities between their marriage and mine.... News Flash.... THERE ARE NONE!!! I'm the smart one and ya

ll have ruined what is to be a very long, hard and tiring life.

 

Is it wrong to feel this way.

 

This is not to say that I do not think these beautiful women will not be good mothers, I am convinced they will be fabulous!!! However, what kind of life are they going to lead from now on? Their dreams are dead( I dont care how many times you say you are going to go back to school.... you aren't), their marriages are practically in shambles and their children are not going to be able to have all that they want to give them. 

 

Back to a comment I mentioned earlier.... Your child comes before anything else in this world.... right?

 

So why is it that we consider this only once we have children... and not before?

 

If you know that one day you WILL be a parent no matter what, then why only put your child first after they are born?

 

If it is really all about the children, please, think of them before conception. There are too many unplanned pregnancies happening in the world today. Just wait.... You have all of your life, what difference does it make?

 

 

 

Please leave me some comments on your thoughts.... and give me some ideas for more topics!!!! (Can Be anything)

 

 

I've never used tags except for two days ago. So I need to make up for it.

God is really picky with his food. Did you know that the Bible says not to eat lobster? Add that to you can't eat meat on certain days, gotta have bread and wine at church, can't drink too much, can't eat too much.. As my mom would say, jeepers crow! But really. What's the Man got against lobster. Lobsters ain't never hurt nobody.

Neither has the gay and lesbian community. But they ban them from oh shit no, marrying?! Do you know what they could do if they got married?! The horrors!

Maybe that's why lobsters scream when you boil them. They're screaming SINNER, SINNER!


On to baby news, I got to hold Liam yesterday. He's the cutest little shit on the planet. But he's got really long fingers. It's kinda freakish. But that's okay. I have freakishly long legs. Everybody's got something freakish about them, so he shouldn't sweat it. He's obsessed with his face too. It's kinda weird.

I said something ridiculously funny in the car last night, and I thought to myself, that's going in here, but now I can't freakin' remember what it was, and I don't like it. Sorry you missed out.

Tomorrow is Hug a Jew Day. So make sure you find your local, community Jew and give them a big ol' hug. The only Jewish blogger on Mindsay that I know of is eje224, so make sure you send her a virtual hug on this momentous occasion. If you don't know a Jew, just hug a stranger. Spread the love.

But please be cautious about it though. Don't go all orangutan on some poor unsuspecting person. Women nowadays tend to be rightfully paranoid about certain people. So if you're creepy looking, you have a huge beard, or if you look like Benjamin Linus from LOST, just stick with hugging your brother, aunt, or perhaps yourself. I've never been tasered, but I can imagine it sucks.

If you look like Dr. McCreamy, make her day and hug away.

Adrienne's mom proposed a great question last night: Why do baseball players always have something in their mouth? I'll let you guess what my immediate response was.

I don't like how a few of the people who have come back for the reunion thing are talking about how Mindsay is "great again" because there's more people, but then bitch about the lack of stuff that other blog sites have. Jimschweizer said it best. That's not Mindsay.

Does your driver's side doorlock work when you put your key in? Mine doesn't. It really sucks. But I look like a total gentleman when I walk around to let my wife in. Too bad I look like a total dumbass when have to pull a reacharound if I'm by myself.

I had an epiphany yesterday. For years I've always confused Bono, Sonny Bono, and Yoko Ono. I know, fucking retarded right? But I seriously did. I always thought Sonny Bono died from cancer or something cause he smoked a lot of pot. She told me this after I was singing Eminem's "Who Knew." Sonny Bono, skis horses and hittin some trees.

I was pretty dumbfounded to find out he died in a fucking ski accident.

I don't understand those commercials for loans, computers, and what-not when they say, there's no credit checks! Isn't this how we go into this silly mess in the first place? And I'm tired of Beatles cover songs in half of the commercials on television. Just give me the Beatles version, not some pathetic knock-off.

The only Beatles coversong I enjoy is Lynden David Hall's "All You Need Is Love" cause he put some soul into it. There are certain songs that should never be covered. Two years ago some guy on American Idol covered "Imagine" and lost. That's because you don't fucking cover that song. It's perfect the way it is. There is nothing to be added. Let it be. A-har-har-har!

Anyway, if God gets to be picky with food, I get to be picky with music. Here's one of my favorite songs.

Kid car seats are something that is usually overlooked by parents when they are cleaning their babys products. It is important that the seat is cleaned regularly for hygiene reasons. You should try your very best to wash it at least one time each and every month and possibly even more if needed.

 

Step 1 - Take the youngsters seat out of the vehicle, then you should position the seat lightly onto an old blanket or cloth outside the car. Before setting your car seat on a blanket etc give the seat a really good shake as this will dislodge any small crumbs etc. Before you clean the seat, make sure you have put all your babys toys and blankets etc away.

 

Step 2 - You should now be ready to hoover and wipe over the rear seat of your vehicle around where the baby car seat was fitted.

 

Step 3 - Pick up any crumbs from your youngsters travel seat with a vacuum cleaner, it would ideally be a hand held vacuum cleaner.
 
Step 4 - You can now clean all of the plastic bits of your childs car seat using some gentle soap and water. Before cleaning the plastic parts of the seat, you should have already disassembled the removeable bits of the kid car seat which should be wiped down separately. When you have finished cleaning each part of the safety seat, you can now put the parts back together and make sure that everything is as it should be.

 

Step 5 - Put the baby car seats cover in the washing machines gentle cycle if the cover can be detached. A tumble dryer could shrink your seat cover so be sure not to make the error of using it. Hang it out on your washing line instead of placing it in the tumble dryer. If the soap isn't compatible with the child seats fabric or the actual seat then this can cause some damage. Always check over the label prior to using any cleaning products.

 

Step 6 - If it is not possible to remove the car seat cover then just wipe the stained patches of the cover. Wipe down all the other parts of the child seat gently. Let any cleaning fumes out by keeping all your car doors wide open for two or more hours. Have a look over the guidelines for the cleaning soap to make sure you can use it to clean the child seat without damaging the seats material.

 

Step 7 - The arms of the child seat, the back, and bottom are areas that should be scrubbed well as these places get very dirty.

 

Step 8 - Your childs car toys can be just as dirty as the car seat so those should be thoroughly cleaned as well.

 

Step 9 - Secure the child seat back into the car. Always make sure you follow the manufacturers fitting instructions. Take your time when fitting travel baby car seats as it is very important you do everything right. Make sure all parts of the travel seat are present and correctly installed.

 

 

By Kerri Bullock

BabyOnTheGo - Our online baby store (www.babyonthego.co.uk)

Final bunch of the random pictures.










How life feels when there is a baby who has mastered walking around.

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Today mam had arranged for me to go to Paul & Leanne's house to take photos for my relationships project for Photography. I'd asked if I could take some photos of Leanne and their two kids Melody and Aiden.
This was a challenge - especially with kids always being on the move.
It annoyed me as well, the perfect shot was always in my viewfinder - WHEN THE CAMERA HAD STALLED. Or when it was LOADING.

Slow digital cameras, who'd have 'em...
Anyway, we spent a few hours there - I've taken about 140 photos, and there looks to be quite a few decent ones - and quite a few hilariously fucked ones. :)

So here's eight that I've uploaded and done some work with: