ok very few know about a website we own because we are embarrassed by the amount of time ( read: none ) we put into it. it started off with a lot of great stuff but we have edited and removed and moved and it’s now pretty pitiful. we usually only get a lot of spam, but today we got a message and i don’t know what we should do!!

please read the message and tell me what you feel our responsibility should be. i want to help but i don’t know if it’s real, and also i don’t know what we should do.
i do know the phone numbers he gave are both in pennsylvania. i contacted the pennsylvania prolife group with the message, just in case it’s a real message.

A FATHER’S CRY TO SAVE HIS UNBORNE CHILD.
Please please someone help me to talk to my girlfriend to prevent her
from killing our baby through abortion. I have told her that me and my
family a lot people in town are ready to help bring this child to life
but she is not listening. Her health his not in danger in any case she
think that her family is going to reject her if they find out that she
carrying my baby because i am black. I told her there are ways to do
this without her family knowing anything, i even offer to pay her if
she just give my baby. This is very important to me because my parents
find themself in this same situation when my mother was pregnante with
me. She is not talking to me now, the only way i get to her is through
one of friend. Please i beg anybody to help me talk to her and save
this baby because he do not deserve to die. I have so much to tell you
guys but i know if i write to much, your staff will not read my
message, my phone is 717 *** **** if you want more information. I’m
available anytime because this is my only reason to live right now.
Life is very unfaire because our society allways blame youmen fathering
girls and not stepping up to take care of the baby and her mother, and
i’m to step up and take care of them and nobody can help. Her phone
number is 570 *** ****. Please someone help.

btw the site is http://www.lifeisprecious.org

update:

here is the response i got from the head of the PA prolife group:

Hi Jenn,

Thank you for your concern for this situation. We will pray over this, and then a member of my staff who herself is biracial will attempt to call “Missan” to discuss and assess what else we can do.

Sincerely for LIFE,

-Michael Ciccocioppo
i just emailed missan:

dear missan,
i just wanted to let you know that i have forwarded your information along to a pennsylvania chapter of a prolife group. i felt they would be able to help you better, as they live close-by to you.
if you would still like for me to call you and talk and pray, that is fine. i really won’t be able to do much more than that, however.
you and your unborn child are in my prayers!!!
God bless,
jenn

reply from PA prolife guy:

reply from missan:

PLEASE pray hard! pray for this girl’s heart, that she will be open to speaking with them, and LISTEN to them.

i just got through adding each of you to the subscribe list manually. that way those of you who haven’t been around in a while will still get a notification of updates. if you’d like to remove your address from the subscribe, it’s very easy to do so. also if you received double messages, that means you have more than one address registered. please delete the username of the one you don’t want (or you can tell me which one you don’t want, if you don’t remember the password to one! :P)

it is pretty exciting to get this all fixed the way i want it. i know i will be able to be more ‘real’ with my posts now, and that makes me very relieved.

jeremiah just gets cuter and cuter by the day. he has the funniest, cutest phrases. of course, he KNOWS he is cute, so he is getting a big head. he can repeat practically everything and can name hundreds of things too. he can recognize a lot of letters and numbers. i will have to mark down which ones and report back. last week, he initiated a game of hide and seek! it was the first time we’d ever played, and while he didn’t hide (or find) too well, we had lots of fun doing it. he liked counting when it was his turn to count.

a few of his fun phrases: 

“i punny (funny), mama”

“i cute, mama”

“i siyyey (silly), mama”

“i know!” (said as his index finger and eybrows pop up, and he gets a huge smile) this has got to be the cutest and most favorite one for me. i almost get tears because it’s so precious and adorable!
“awww cute jo-jo”

“i yuv you brudder jo-jo”

“i a big hepper (helper), mama” 

anything, ending in “right!” this is to verify that what we said is correct. for the longest time, i would say “right” at the end of my sentences when he repeated correctly. he has picked it up and it’s really cute.

josiah has two bottom teeth all the way in. he crawled a space one day (both knees moved forward) and he can sit without help for about 2 minutes sometimes. the other day he was sitting for that long and got upset, because i think he’d forgotten how to get to lying position. it was funny! he can roll, of course. he is almost able to prop himself up into sitting position, but not quite. he is SO ACTIVE! he likes to be moving all the time. but at the same time, he is SO sweet and lovable!!! he is really a snuggly boy. it’s so funny that he’s just like the song i wrote for him before he was born! he is also very happy and smiley for the most part. and wow, that smile still blows me away! he is still nursing like a pro, and eating 4 4oz bottles a day, plus cereal and stage 2 foods.

jerry is looking for a new job, so please pray for him. there are lots of difficulties at the nursing home that are really wearing him down. for one thing, there are new administrators, and they are really horrible. everyone has been told their jobs are not safe. whenever anyone puts in their notice of resignation, they get walked out the door! because of this, and for this reason only, jerry will not be putting a notice in. he’ll be taking his vacation, find a new job over vacation, and not return.  

well that’s it for now. i hope everyone enjoys the new blog as much as i do!! jerry’s favorite part is the new stats part. you can see who the top posters are (i guessed right on who was 1st and 2nd), what my most-read or most-commented posts are, and more. it’s pretty cool.

i hope everyone has a great day. God bless!!! :) 

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thanks so much guys! you rock!

ok we were messing with plug-ins and i think it messed up the commenting function. so try again = comment if you make it over!

is the email notify working?

let me know if you’ve received it. also please let me know when you make it over here!

i’m here!! i like the way the new layout looks. what do you think? i found a way in photoshop to change the color without it totally ruining the image.

as i mentioned in the other blog post, i’m having difficulties with a few things. jerry is the real web tech in the family. i haven’t worked on coding for quite a while so i have become even dumber than i was to begin with.

any help will be appreciate! God bless!

found this at amanda fernandeses!

follow the link and choose the words you think describe me. NOTE: religious is a choice, but i didn’t choose it because i don’t think of myself as ‘religious’. if however, you think that i am strong in my faith (Christianity) then you can feel free to choose religious as a choice, and i’ll assume that’s what you mean. heh!

click here.

jerry helped me with figuring out animation in photoshop…look! i made my first nice blinkie! :D

if you’d like to use it to link to BMC, feel free! i plan to make other sizes too. :D wahoo! it wasn’t as hard as i’d thought either, once i got it down.

yesterday the boys had a well-baby checkup. well, (lol) josiah has an ear infection! he had been pulling on it off and on, even before the original checkups that we found out jeremiah had strep, so his ears had been checked and cleared ok. SIGH! so now, as jeremiah is ending his run with antibiotics, josiah is beginning them.
josiah lost some weight in a week! while before he’d been 18lbs 6oz, yesterday, he was 17lbs 13oz. he was exactly 27″ long. and we had her check jeremiah’s info - he was 26 3/4″ long! so not as different as we’d thought! (and i just looked at MY stats info, and it says 6mos 1day he was 27″ and 18lbs!!! so i believe they are in a dead-lock! lol)
jeremiah checked out fine. he weighed 27lbs 6oz and was 36″ tall (i may be wrong on this and have to update it).

jerry had the day off, so after the checkups we went to get jeremiah’s hair cut (it was amazingly unruly. add his runny/snotty nose, and he looked like an unkempt homeless child!) then we went to menards to pick up some flooring for the kitchen. we also got a new dishwasher that we’d been sorely needing (the old one was leaking all the time). can you tell someone got their tax check in? cha-ching! too bad it’s nearly all spent! we paid my mom back for the loan she’d given us a few months ago. it does feel great not to owe her anything! that extra 100 a month will be very nice in savings! we still need to get a new mirror for the downstairs bathroom, see about fixing up jerry’s car, and put a partial payment on my new camera. yep, i am getting one. i am so excited. not sure which one yet. i’m still looking at deals and comparing quality. you all know one of my dreams is to be a photographer don’t you? i’d love to go to people’s houses and take pics of their kids. sigh…

ok back to reality. gotta get going! have a great day and God bless!

eta: joe’s in his crib being grumpy, making whiny noises. in the midst of the babble, i hear “ahhhhhhhhhmaaaamaaaaaaaaaaaa”. AAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dear josiah,
happy half birthday to my precious adorable little man!!!
you have such a unique personality. you are definitely your own person! you love watching your big brother, but you also love playing by yourself. you have such highs and lows in your behaviour! you can be happy and smiling from ear to ear one minute, and the next you can be screaming bloody murder! you are very active and don’t like to be in one place for too long. i have a feeling we will have our hands full with you very soon! you seem to be into things much more than your bubby ever was at your age!! you and jeremiah are getting closer, although he is still jealous of you sometimes. you just LOVE kc-dog and try to pet him anytime he lets you! you love to grab people’s faces and hair and you do NOT like letting go! it’s funny that now i think you think our glasses are permanent parts of our faces, so you really don’t try to take those much anymore. lol.
your smile never grows old. it gets brighter and bigger every day. your laughs and giggles make us burst into laughter, because they are so deep and special!! you bring so much joy to us, sweet boy!!
i love you, precious josiah! you are still my little prince and you are so precious to everyone who knows you!!
love,
mama
i am still working on that long update. lol.
josiah has his bottom right tooth in, and his bottom left tooth is almost through as well.
he will probably be crawling soon. he can roll over and over and can scoot around to get what he wants. he started rocking on all fours the other day. time-wise, he’s ahead of jeremiah in many things. i just find this amazing, because he WAS almost two weeks early, and he WAS so tiny to start with! (in comparison with jeremiah i mean.)
two fridays ago he weighed 18lbs 6oz. he and jeremiah both go in tomorrow for well baby checkups so we’ll see details then.
they are both feeling a lot better but are both still sickies. still runny/snotty noses and coughs. thankfully no significant fevers though.

hopefully i’ll be able to post more later.
sorry i have been such a stranger! love you all!!