Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Tattler Thursday #20 Blog and Social Media Hop


Hiya Snappers! Welcome back to the 20th week of the Tattler Thursday Blog and Social Network Hop!

It's time to tattle and hop!

It's a share your crazy, gross, hilarious, in-the-trenches parenthood stories, kind of blog hop! We love funny kid stories and we want to hear yours!

Just leave a comment with your story, post not required! So think of your funniest, wackiest or favorite kid stories, leave a comment  with your story/tattle, follow your Hostesses and Co-Hostesses, visit and discover other blogs, and have fun!

Remember the easiest way to get a follow back is to like/follow other pages and leave a comment! So hop around, tell your friends and share, share, share! This is a hop designed for you to have fun and share! Happy Tattling!

about the Blog Hop HERE!




This week's Featured Blogger is Alli from High Heels and Coffee!  She's "that mom that claims she has to poop and hides out in the bathroom for half an hour playing Candy Crush on the iPad."  We just adore her and think you will too...be sure to check her out!  And follow her on Bloglovin'!

To be picked as next week's featured blogger of the week, and to be eligible for September's Tattler's Studio featured post on W3G, all about you and your blog, simply comment on one of the three Hostesses blogs with a funny, silly, gross, scary, wacky, or crazy kid story!

The Rules are:
1- Follow Your Host and Co-Hostesses
2- Grab the button and display it on your blog or hop page/section
3- Leave a comment with a funny, wacky, or gross kid story/tattle

*Be Sure to Hop over to other blogs and visit/network and share the Hop

*Have fun Hopping! (and come back next week!)

 
Your Hostesses
The Wild and Wonderful World of GingerssnapsComfytown Chronicles

The Co-Hostesses
    Complete Bliss Blog
BabyForScale  I'm No Hum Drum Mum








***If you are interested in co-hosting the blog hop or would like more information, you can reach us at tattlerthursday@gmail.com***

Wednesday, September 18, 2013


Hiya Snappers! Welcome back to the 19th week of the Tattler Thursday Blog and Social Network Hop!

It's time to tattle and hop!

It's a share your crazy, gross, hilarious, in-the-trenches parenthood stories, kind of blog hop! We love funny kid stories and we want to hear yours!

Just leave a comment with your story, post not required! So think of your funniest, wackiest or favorite kid stories, leave a comment  with your story/tattle, follow your Hostesses and Co-Hostesses, visit and discover other blogs, and have fun!

Remember the easiest way to get a follow back is to like/follow other pages and leave a comment! So hop around, tell your friends and share, share, share! This is a hop designed for you to have fun and share! Happy Tattling!

about the Blog Hop HERE!



This week's featured blogger is One Blunt Mom!  To use her own words, she is a " Mom, wife, crafter, political ranter, current event follower, equal rights believer, pro-choice advocate, strong proponent of the belief that people should worry about themselves, and general non-taker of any crap."



To be picked as next week's featured blogger of the week, and to be eligible for September's Tattler's Studio featured post on W3G, all about you and your blog, simply comment on one of the three Hostesses blogs with a funny, silly, gross, scary, wacky, or crazy kid story!

The Rules are:
1- Follow Your Host and Co-Hostesses
2- Grab the button and display it on your blog or hop page/section
3- Leave a comment with a funny, wacky, or gross kid story/tattle

*Be Sure to Hop over to other blogs and visit/network and share the Hop

*Have fun Hopping! (and come back next week!)

 
Your Hostesses
The Wild and Wonderful World of GingerssnapsComfytown Chronicles

The Co-Hostesses
    Complete Bliss Blog
BabyForScale    New Mama Diaries








***If you are interested in co-hosting the blog hop or would like more information, you can reach us at tattlerthursday@gmail.com***

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Tattler Thursday Blog and Social Media Hop #18


Hiya Snappers! Welcome back to the 18th week of the Tattler Thursday Blog and Social Network Hop!

It's time to tattle and hop!

It's a share your crazy, gross, hilarious, in-the-trenches parenthood stories, kind of blog hop! We love funny kid stories and we want to hear yours!

Just leave a comment with your story, post not required! So think of your funniest, wackiest or favorite kid stories, leave a comment  with your story/tattle, follow your Hostesses and Co-Hostesses, visit and discover other blogs, and have fun!

Remember the easiest way to get a follow back is to like/follow other pages and leave a comment! So hop around, tell your friends and share, share, share! This is a hop designed for you to have fun and share! Happy Tattling!

about the Blog Hop HERE!




This week's featured blogger of the week is, Literally Vague from Chaos With A Curve! Go check their site out! It is a conglomeration of 4 women bloggers who blog together because they want to be heard. Because they have something to say, whether you want to read it or not.  Thanks for commenting last week Literally Vague ! You are now entered to be featured on The tattler's Studio next month!



 
To be picked as next week's featured blogger of the week, and to be eligible for September's Tattler's Studio featured post on W3G, all about you and your blog, simply comment on one of the three Hostesses blogs with a funny, silly, gross, scary, wacky, or crazy kid story!

The Rules are:
1- Follow Your Host and Co-Hostesses
2- Grab the button and display it on your blog or hop page/section
3- Leave a comment with a funny, wacky, or gross kid story/tattle

*Be Sure to Hop over to other blogs and visit/network and share the Hop

*Have fun Hopping! (and come back next week!)

 
Your Hostesses
The Wild and Wonderful World of GingerssnapsComfytown Chronicles

The Co-Hostesses
    Complete Bliss Blog
BabyForScale    New Mama Diaries






***If you are interested in co-hosting the blog hop or would like more information, you can reach us at tattlerthursday@gmail.com***

A Letter To My Hero...

To My Hero,

  I am writing today to say thank you. Thank you for being there on that fateful day, 15 years ago.  Thank you for your selfless sacrifice. Thank you for being brave when you were young and scared.  Thank you for being courageous, and marching in, when I am sure you wanted to turn around and run back to your loved ones. Your sacrifice has not gone unnoticed.

Thank you for marching into the unknown and putting your life on the line.  I will never know firsthand, what Ground Zero was like on September 11, 2001. You my friend, cannot escape the horror. Thank you for enduring it for me. Thank you for your unyielding dedication to find survivors and sifting through the rubble, in the many months of aftermath that you suffered. Because of you, America had hope in one of our bleakest hours. You and your brothers gave that to the rest of America. While we sat safe in our homes, physically unaffected, looking at pictures in magazines of the red zone.


I cannot imagine what you have had to endure personally, at the hands of the terrorists. Logging more red zone hours than allowed because there was no one else.  Forging ahead, even though it would be life threatening to your health in the future.  Going down into the red zone when the masks and supplies ran out, you persevered.  You had a job to do, and you did it. Your search for survivors, grimly turned into recovery of the dead. You put aside the possible ramifications to your health and psyche, and marched in when America needed you.  That is self sacrifice.  You breathed in the unimaginable, and dug through the dangerous, finding dead bodies and rubble, to save just one, to  find just one. You were the terrorist clean up detail.  You gave deeper of yourself than anyone of us civilian Americans can  imagine. It has not gone unnoticed.

Thank you for surviving the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder you have had to endure because of the horrors emblazoned on your brain. Many of the brave did not survive it. Thank you for enduring the yearly tests and scans for Cancer and other diseases caused by your bravery and sacrifice of spending too many hours in the Red Zone.  Many have been lost due to the things they were exposed to physically and emotionally. For some , the horrors were too much to bear. You are always in our prayers.

I wish there was something I could do for you.  I wish I could make your employers see that there is no expiration date on PTSD.  I wish I could make them understand that if it is something you suffer from, as most do, it was because of your sacrifice and bravery, not a weakness.  I wish you would not have to sneak and see a therapist, for fear of losing your job if the fact that you still have PTSD is discovered. I wish you did not feel like you have an expiration date on your life, and a target on your back.  I wish that I could change the sad fact that you feel, as do all of your brothers, that it is only a matter of time until you die young from all of the things you endured and were exposed to. You, America's bravest heroes, from September 11, 2001 are silently suffering.  Few of us know your pain,  I cannot even imagine the horror of it, but I want you to know my heart is with you.  I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I love you, I am proud of you, and am proud to say that America has heroes like you among us.  You give us all hope.  You were the only light in the dark days on and after September 11, 2001. YOU, pulled America through.  I, for one, would be honored to say I know even one of you, let alone all of the faces I have met through the news media and press over the last twelve years. There is something I can do, I can say thank you.  I cannot say it enough.

To all the men and women of the NYPD, NYFD, NY Emergency Services, and all of the many other police, fire, Port Authority, government agencies, service men and women, and volunteers that endured the horrors of September 11, 2001 and it's aftermath, on the front lines, Thank You! Your sacrifice will never be forgotten.

Sincerely,

A Grateful Citizen

Monday, September 9, 2013

A Letter to the Moms Who Didn't....

Dear Moms Who Didn't,
  I am a mother of a beautiful, smart, fun, energetic, loves to learn, and loves school good girl. I am so very proud of her bravery and resiliency this past four days. I am so very proud of her. I am writing to you today, to beg you to have those uncomfortable conversations with your sons. My daughter has lost a piece of her innocence that she will never get back, due to the uncomfortable conversation you did not want to have or did not think was necessary yet with your son.

  My daughter, my little sunshine was sexually harassed this past week at school by a boy in her class who sits beside her. I found out that she has a photographic memory when she traced his name in the air for me while she was seeing that name tag, that will forever be emblazoned in her mind. She was scared to tell me what had happened, the day that it happened. She endured another day of sitting beside of and in close proximity to this child, who stole her innocence. She told me what had happened this past weekend. I was so very glad that I had already been prepared to deal with this, from my own experience.

I had several conversations with my baby this summer about private parts staying private, that they were hers only. If a boy or girl wants to show you his or see yours, just say no. That is completely inappropriate, especially at school. This was coupled in with the always tell your teacher, and stranger danger talk. I was a victim of a sexual predator when I was seven. Thank Goodness my Mom had the same talk with me that I have had with my daughter, or else I may have not known to repeatedly refuse my family member's insistence that I cooperate with him. I too have felt that uncomfortable fear, and been scared of the person who took me to that new world where intimidation, inappropriateness and harassment reside. I too have been to that dark place my child. It has well prepared me for how to help you now.

I am brokenhearted for you, my sweet innocent baby. This is something Mommy cannot ever take away. I cannot take away the memory of the boy asking you if you wanted to see his DICK, I cannot take away the new crude word that was insensitively and inappropriately introduced into your vocabulary. I cannot take away that sense of being too scared to tell your Mommy what had happened, and as soon as it happened. I can only comfort and reassure you that you did the right thing in telling me, and reassure you that you did nothing wrong. And I can take care of the issue by going to the school.

A part of my child's innocence has been stolen, and it is your fault Mom. I blame the mother and father of the boy who did this. They did not want to have an "uncomfortable" conversation, or didn't care enough to prepare their child on how to behave properly with other children in a school setting. I am brokenhearted, but I also so angry that I could scream! You do not know what damage can be done to little children's psyches, when this sort of thing happens. Some blow it off, and say kids will be kids. I say educate and prepare your kids, to prevent this sort of thing from happening. It can have long term consequences.

  My 15 year old cousin was babysitting me when I was seven, and I loved and trusted him completely. Then one night he asked me to do him a favor. I said sure. he asked me to lay naked on top of him, suck his dick, or to kiss him like the grown ups do. I knew the first one was bad and wrong. I told him I didn't know what the middle one meant and he kept repeating," yes you do".  I was a good girl too, no I did not! I refused to do anything, I knew they were wrong. He insisted. So he kissed me like the grown ups do and stuck his tongue in my mouth. I screamed and ran to my room, and locked myself in, until my mom and dad returned home. He threatened me that if I told anyone, he would kill my mom and dad.

  As a result, I was a late bloomer, very timid of boys. When I did start having real relationships, I had a really hard time trusting men. After the first one that I trusted broke my heart, it took a long time for me to really open up and trust again. The second time I trusted, years later, I ended up marrying him. While I was in my dating but not trusting phase, I adopted a guys attitude about dating. I used a lot of men, and broke a lot of hearts. I can, in part, say it was due to some deep seated issues with trust, and the female power struggle within me, always wanting to be in control, so no man could hurt me again. So I am brokenhearted for my baby to have to deal with something similar at such a tender young age. But when I told her I understood, that it had happened to me too, we instantly became comrades. She understood that I really and truly understood on a level that no one can understand, unless you have been there.

I was never the same.  I dreaded family functions where I would have to see this cousin, and was introverted to the point of making myself sick to my stomach with worry.  I began using food as a coping mechanism, to self soothe, and to swallow it down and toughen up. Everyone else acted like nothing had ever happened, and so I had to as well.  I will not allow that to happen with my daughter.  I will teach her to be strong, always say no, and that she did nothing wrong. If she needs to talk about it, then we will discuss it.  I will be there for her, and nothing will be swept under the rug. I know exactly what damage even the slightest of sexual harassment can do to a young child, and I will do everything in my power to be there for her and support her in whatever she needs. I can only hope and pray that she suffers no lasting deep seated issues with boys because of your child's actions.

SO to the Mom who did not have the talk with her son, the school will be having the discussion for you.  What was absolutely necessary of you as a parent, is being provided to your son courtesy of the school counselor, because you failed to have an uncomfortable conversation.  Because of your inability to communicate, my daughter has suffered. I pray to God that you are a good person, because I worry about your son also.  I worry about the boy and what he might have to endure at yours or another's hands, that makes him think this behavior is ok.  I worry that he is a latch key kid, and has no adult supervision. He is only five. And he thought that his behavior was acceptable.  Or maybe he knew it wasn't and did it anyway. I have been on my knees a lot these last three days praying for my baby and for your son.

Sincerely.
 The Brokenhearted Mom

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Tattler Thursday Blog and Social Media Hop #17


Hiya Snappers! Welcome back to the 17th week of the Tattler Thursday Blog and Social Network Hop!

It's time to tattle and hop!

It's a share your crazy, gross, hilarious, in-the-trenches parenthood stories, kind of blog hop! We love funny kid stories and we want to hear yours!


Just leave a comment with your story, post not required! So think of your funniest, wackiest or favorite kid stories, leave a comment  with your story/tattle, follow your Hostesses and Co-Hostesses, visit and discover other blogs, and have fun!

Remember the easiest way to get a follow back is to like/follow other pages and leave a comment! So hop around, tell your friends and share, share, share! This is a hop designed for you to have fun and share! Happy Tattling!
about the Blog Hop HERE!



Our first featured blogger, is Miss Amanda from Happily Ever After .  She is a hilarious, a mommy to adorable Harper and wife to a pilot.  Her blog is about her adventures as a USAF wife and Mommy.  Go check her out! Thanks for commenting Amanda!


To be picked as next week's featured blogger of the week, and to be eligible for September's Tattler's Studio featured post on W3G, all about you and your blog, simply comment on one of the three Hostesses blogs with a funny, silly, gross, scary, wacky, or crazy kid story!

The Rules are:
1- Follow Your Host and Co-Hostesses
2- Grab the button and display it on your blog or hop page/section
3- Leave a comment with a funny, wacky, or gross kid story/tattle

*Be Sure to Hop over to other blogs and visit/network and share the Hop

*Have fun Hopping! (and come back next week!)

 
Your Hostesses
The Wild and Wonderful World of GingerssnapsComfytown Chronicles
The Co-Hostesses
The Wine Chronicles
    Complete Bliss Blog
BabyForScale    New Mama Diaries







***If you are interested in co-hosting the blog hop or would like more information, you can reach us at tattlerthursday@gmail.com***