{"id":785,"date":"2005-11-14T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2006-04-05T12:28:49","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T19:28:49","slug":"when-can-we-stop-worrying-about-our-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"When can we stop worrying about our kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/63252678\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"404\" alt=\"Tread softly, Sienna.\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/31\/63252678_19eb8f1110.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Cita called me last night to tell me the breaking news in the Christie Wilson case. They found a plastic bag with &#8216;bondage&#8217; stuff in there. They also found hair on it, and it&#8217;s being tested to see if it matches Christie Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>This is huge.<\/p>\n<p>I got an email from Christie Wilson&#8217;s aunt last week. She thanked us for putting up the information and for all our prayers.  It just somehow doesn&#8217;t feel like enough.<\/p>\n<p>Searching the internet for any information I might have missed, I found a website on missing and abducted children.  Stories of people searching for a 14 year old girl in fields. Stories of a 4 year old girl missing from her home. Stories of a 8 year missing&#8230;and then Christies; a 27 year old missing and her mother is out there every weekend looking for her daughter, on the news pleading for information and help.<\/p>\n<p>I thought once we got out of the fear of SIDS that I would be okay. Then the fear of them being taken when they were little and wouldn&#8217;t know how to scream for help.  Then the fear of them playing at the park and being taken.  I figured now that Kara is older it won&#8217;t be so bad&#8230;but now she&#8217;s the prime target age.  Christie Wilson is 27 years old&#8230;and she was abducted.<\/p>\n<p>When do I get to stop worrying?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t.  Anyone who has kids doesn&#8217;t get to stop thinking, &#8216;what if&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>That thought of my child missing scares the living shit out of me. I am filled with bone chilling fear and anger at the same time. I want to grab my kids and never let them out of my site and yell, &#8220;They are mine! and if you even try&#8230;I will KILL YOU WITH MY HANDS!&#8221;<br \/>\nI get that knot in my throat even thinking about having to get up every morning knowing that one of my kids isn&#8217;t here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>and this is reality for Christie Wilson&#8217;s mother&#8230;and too many other parents out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Cita called me last night to tell me the breaking news in the Christie Wilson case. They found a plastic bag with &#8216;bondage&#8217; stuff in there. They also found hair on it, and it&#8217;s being tested to see if it matches Christie Wilson. This is huge. I got an email from Christie Wilson&#8217;s aunt last week. She thanked us for putting up the information and for all our prayers. It just somehow doesn&#8217;t feel like enough. Searching the internet for any information I might have missed, I found a website on missing and abducted children. Stories of people searching for a 14 year old girl in fields. Stories of a 4 year old girl missing from her home. Stories of a 8 year missing&#8230;and then Christies; a 27 year old missing and her mother is out there every weekend looking for her daughter, on the news pleading for information and help. I thought once we got out of the fear of SIDS that I would be okay. Then the fear of them being taken when they were little and wouldn&#8217;t know how to scream for help. Then the fear of them playing at the park and being taken. I figured now that Kara is older it won&#8217;t be so bad&#8230;but now she&#8217;s the prime target age. Christie Wilson is 27 years old&#8230;and she was abducted. When do I get to stop worrying? I don&#8217;t. Anyone who has kids doesn&#8217;t get to stop thinking, &#8216;what if&#8217;. That thought of my child missing scares the living shit out of me. I am filled with bone chilling fear and anger at the same time. I want to grab my kids and never let them out of my site and yell, &#8220;They are mine! and if you even try&#8230;I will KILL YOU WITH MY HANDS!&#8221; I get that knot in my throat even thinking about having to get up every morning knowing that one of my kids isn&#8217;t here&#8230; and this is reality for Christie Wilson&#8217;s mother&#8230;and too many other parents out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}