Archive for Month: September, 2009
Imagine This Was Your Child
This is Mattie and when she was two she was diagnosed with hearing loss.
- 36 million Americans have some form of hearing loss
- 22 million Americans have noise induced hearing loss that could have been prevented
- People with hearing loss tend to be underemployed and make an average of $12,000 less per year than their hearing peers
- About 2 – 3 out of every 1,000 children in the US are born deaf or hard of hearing. 9 out of every 10 children who are born deaf are born to parents who can hear. Source: the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Mattie’s mother is my friend, Shelly, and this is from Mattie’s website:
“We noticed that she had trouble with directionality and understanding. With additional testing it was discovered that Mattie was completely deaf in her right ear and has a mild rising to normal loss in her left ear. Mattie has over the course of the last 7 years used several different hearing aids. In September 2008 Mattie had implant surgery to be fitted with a B.A.H.A hearing aid. She was finally able to put her processor on in December 2009. It was and still is amazing.
We will be participating in the Walk4Hearing. We need your support to make this event a success. Please take a moment to sponsor our efforts. Every dollar is a blessing not only for Mattie , but for many with a hearing loss. If you would like to also join us October 10, 2009, please let us know. We would love for you to join our team in the WALK4HEARING.
Many Blessings and Thanks for Your Support!
If you feel able to sponsor me in this Walk, you can safely use your credit card online or you may send a check by emailing me at ShellyPlus4@gmail.com for my address.
Shelly and her family are walking on 10/10 in Martinez, Georgia’s Walk4Hearing. They will be walking together as a team and have set a goal to raise at least $100.00 each.
Won’t you help? Please?!
(Donate Here)
“Collaborating with local HLAA chapters, Walk4Hearing™ educates the general public about hearing loss while easing the associated stigma. Striving to make hearing loss a public health issue, thousands of people of all ages, races, and backgrounds have come together to display their compassion for the cause and to make hearing loss an issue of national concern.”
We’re Kind of a Big Deal on the Internet
(l-r: @mamaspohr, @alpal, @vdog, @alotofnothing, @thecaffeinatrix, @anissamayhew, and @reneejross)
I’m in Asheville, NC for the Type-A Mom Conference. I am here with some of the best gals on the internet. I am meeting up with some of the best gals on the internet. I am going to laugh, sing, dance, talk, relish, philosophize, and surround myself–this weekend–constantly with the best of the best.
I am here to be with my sisterhood. And it’s going to be awesome.
Bewb Talk
When they were handing out the genetics for perky boobs I was last in line. Or not even in line. It’s true, I have the saggiest boobs on the planet. Then I went ahead and had not one, not two, not three, BUT four kids. All of which breastfed for some amount of time. My boobs? They suck. Pun intended.
I have tried to look on the bright side. I think to myself, when you cram your boobs in a nice bra, they are totally awesome. Nope. It doesn’t work. I still know that when they are free they can cause serious damage. Seriously. If they aren’t contained it could get really ugly up in here.
A few years back my husband took me to New Orleans, for the weekend, when we were visiting his father. We stayed in the cutest little French Quarter villa-type-thing. Outside our room there was this little ledge.
“Baby, how about you sit on that ledge and I’ll take your picture,” Michael said.
Sure, why not? Pictures were taken; he had his taken, too, and you can see that it was totally photo-op worthy. No problem, right?
WRONG. When I downloaded all the pictures I was mortified.
“MICHAEL!!!!! I NEED A BOOB JOB!” I screamed.
“What’s going on, Mishelle? Why are you screaming about a boob job?” he demanded.
“Look! Look at this picture you took of me! I have.. I have.. Oh my God… Look! I have….TORPEDO TITS!” I cried as I stomped to my room and threw out every single bad bra in my drawer.
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I really am jealous of you gals with perky boobs and nipples that look out and not down.
Oh, and, to add insult to injury: Why is it that when I lose any amount of weight it comes off my boobs first? Really, God, really? Like the sagging-National-Geographic-type-tatas wasn’t enough?
Yes, I’m really jealous of you gals with perky boobs and nipples that look out and not down. I’m also jealous of those of you with nice flat tummies. Jillian Michaels, I am talking to you, but I digress.
Honestly, I think I’ve come to terms with my [oranges in a knee high socks] boobs. I mean, I have a husband who likes to have sex with me (you saw the part about not one, not two, not three, BUT four kids?). I’ve got a great personality. I’m an artiste, if I do say so. I’m super fly. And have you seen my smile? Who cares about nipples pointing up and perky boobs and great elasticity?
That being said, I’m off to seduce my husband. I have my sexy bra on (yeah right–it’s the bra missing a wire on the left, with those thick maw-maw straps–real sexy) because we’ll probably end up in doggie-style and I don’t need no stinkin’ black eye before the week’s over. Bow Chicka Bow Wow.
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