So I came across this article just now. You can read it now or later or never, but basically, it details a woman with a 3 year old boy who met a guy online and let him move in with her 2 months later. The two months following BF moving in, he proceeded to abuse the boy by dunking him under water, shoving him in the freezer, burning him on the heater, with scalding water, smothering him with pillows and even more. When the woman was asked why she allowed the abuse to continue she responded, "I guess I was in love with him. I didn't want to lose him." "Him" being the boyfriend. Disgusting.
Reading her quote made me think of someone I know. A pregnant woman, in a terrible relationship with not a great person at all, a guy who's proved that he doesn't value life and who is an alcoholic with absolutely no experience with babies and small children. Despite the fact that she knows this is a bad relationship and he doesn't treat her all that well either, she does everything she can to stay with him, including being nearly estranged from the nearly all of her friends and family, for the exact reason that the woman above allowed her boyfriend to abuse her son.
What is going to happen if this other guy gets fed up with his infant baby screaming at night? Or if the baby throws up on him or does something else to make him angry? What if he's drunk? What if he goes to far? Will this woman let is happen because she "doesn't want to lose him"? Scary stuff.
08 May 2010
02 May 2010
What did you do with your Sunday morning?
I spent mine making a new dog bed for Ripley. Oh yeah. Rock out.
When I was visiting California over Christmas, the woman who rents a room from my parents was making no-sew baby blankets for some of her friends for gifts. Though I'm more a fan of the nice clean lines of a sewn baby blanket, I do understand why these are good for babies and toddlers as a lot of them like to play with tags and this thing basically has tag-like thingies hanging all around it. It's also a really good, inexpensive gift to make for people who are having a baby, particularly if you don't know how to sew or don't own a sewing machine as all you need are two equal-sized pieces of fleece and a pair of scissors.
Anyway, back to the dog bed. When we first got Ripley, we bought her a dog bed. That's her sleeping in it the first day we got her. Isn't she so adorably cute and tiny?! Look at her tiny little nose and feet! Ok, back to the bed again. She didn't really see it as a bed, instead it was more like an oversized chew toy for her own personal entertainment. She was also very particular about the placement of this "chew toy." The base of the bed had to be exactly halfway up the stairs and the pillow could only be in either the kitchen or the office, next to a doorway. Steve called it "Ripley's feng shui'ing." Needless to say, that bed does not exist anymore. Well, it does, but but not as a bed. More like lots of tiny pieces of red fleece and hollow-fiber filling. And even if it did still exist, she's a bit too big for it now anyway.
Maybe she was trying to tell us something.
So one day I was browsing sewing patterns on the web and amusing myself at the silly costumes that people make for their pets (particularly pugs) and I came across a no-sew dog bed which used to same concept as the baby blanket I mentioned above. The site I was on wanted something ridiculous like £9 for the pattern, which is stupid because you could look at the picture and figure out what they did so I decided to make it.
I had some extra fleece from a double-sided picnic blanket which I bought from Dunelm for the sole purpose of cutting up for little blankets for Chaz, but obviously a hedgehog doesn't need a massive amount of fabric so I got a couple of good-sized pieces for Ripley's bed, one bigger than the other, and a double-sized duvet folded up so it fits the dimensions of the fabric. I then had to cut bajillions of fringes on each side of the fleece. Let me tell you, if you don't have sharp scissors, this is THE MOST ANNOYING THING EVER!!! Then you just tie a bunch of knots, throw the dog bed on the floor and let doggie enjoy. Here is Ripley enjoying her new doggie bed. Hopefully, this one won't be torn to bits like the last one.
When I was visiting California over Christmas, the woman who rents a room from my parents was making no-sew baby blankets for some of her friends for gifts. Though I'm more a fan of the nice clean lines of a sewn baby blanket, I do understand why these are good for babies and toddlers as a lot of them like to play with tags and this thing basically has tag-like thingies hanging all around it. It's also a really good, inexpensive gift to make for people who are having a baby, particularly if you don't know how to sew or don't own a sewing machine as all you need are two equal-sized pieces of fleece and a pair of scissors.
Maybe she was trying to tell us something.
So one day I was browsing sewing patterns on the web and amusing myself at the silly costumes that people make for their pets (particularly pugs) and I came across a no-sew dog bed which used to same concept as the baby blanket I mentioned above. The site I was on wanted something ridiculous like £9 for the pattern, which is stupid because you could look at the picture and figure out what they did so I decided to make it.
I had some extra fleece from a double-sided picnic blanket which I bought from Dunelm for the sole purpose of cutting up for little blankets for Chaz, but obviously a hedgehog doesn't need a massive amount of fabric so I got a couple of good-sized pieces for Ripley's bed, one bigger than the other, and a double-sized duvet folded up so it fits the dimensions of the fabric. I then had to cut bajillions of fringes on each side of the fleece. Let me tell you, if you don't have sharp scissors, this is THE MOST ANNOYING THING EVER!!! Then you just tie a bunch of knots, throw the dog bed on the floor and let doggie enjoy. Here is Ripley enjoying her new doggie bed. Hopefully, this one won't be torn to bits like the last one.
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