Thank you for your words…

I needed it today.

Okay, next thing that has me all in tissy; This whole FLDS thing and CNN running it.  Today on CNN, they ran pictures from a website from the group of people, and I am leaving their beliefs and religion out of it 100%, in this post, they are just PEOPLE, lots of people living in a really big house…asking for donations to help with their legal fees.

Normally this isn’t a big deal.

Remember, I am leaving beliefs and religion out of this, 416 children were removed from their homes. These mothers must go to court to fight to get them back.  Many of us have had to fight for custody of our children.  We’ve been down that road. Now…these women, they get a chunka chunka cash from the government for WELFARE.  Yeah. I about choked when I read that. I can’t even calculate the amount of money these people get per child, per month on a calculator.  My guess, and I am just GUESSING here, there is a chance they MIGHT know who the father is.  Why is the state not going after the fathers for the support that the government has to pay out in welfare?   I’ve never been on welfare so I don’t know how it works, but to my limited knowledge…I believe you have to state who the father is when you file for welfare.  The father is then gone after for the amount of money that is being used per child.

So, um. They are asking tax payers to help pay to get their children back. *raising eyebrow* Does this sound weird? Am I just sleep deprived?  Because, um, honestly…if it were just me and not hundreds of me, If I had to go to court to get my kids back…I WOULD SELL MY HOUSE!  My house wouldn’t get me very far, but I don’t live on nearly 2,000 acres with mills, churches, doctor’s offices and A FRIGGIN CASTLE.

AAAAAaaand. and! They are reported somewhere saying they don’t believe in ‘the internet’. It’s evil…and crayons are too. YET, they are using the internet to ask for moneyyyyyy.  They don’t believe in our ‘government’, yet they take the government checks?  My head just exploded.

Please remember, I could care less about how they want to live, I believe in all sorts of marriage. I think people should be able to marry who ever they want; man, woman, woman, woman, man, man. We all should have the legal right to be as miserable as the next person. If the men there want to marry more than one woman…more misery to you.  I do believe if it’s straight marriage, gay marriage, multiple marriage…they should claim their children and take care of them. protect them.

And the icing on the top of the web page was the ‘Damages’ that was caused by the government when they came in to get the children.
PUH-FRIGGIN-PLEASE!  My CHILDREN have done more damage than that on a light day!  Sweet Jesus, if you’re complaining about paint on the sidewalk, messy rooms and taken ladders….DUDE, come take my damn kids for a week! You will be pulling out your unibrow the first morning you go to get towels AND THERE ARE NONE!  When you try to find your toothbrush AND IT’S GONE.

And that first morning when you wake up to my son going through your closet and looking at you saying, “Do you have any socks I can borrow?”                Don’t call me to come get them.