"...why are you down in the dumps, dear soul? Why are you crying the blues? Fix my eyes on God---soon I'll be praising again. HE puts a smile on my face. He's my God."
Her name is.... Alei (a-lay) Sky Paquette Salem, N.H.: Speedy delivery Dad assists in daughter's birth SALEM. N.H. — There was a moment, sometime between 8:40 and 8:50 a.m. yesterday, when Chris Paquette knew he'd be delivering his third child without the help of a midwife or a doctor. | |
8:25 this morning my brother, Chris , gets a call from his wife, Ashley, who is about 6 days from her due date...you know those 'it's time' calls. 
Well, for Ashley, those calls are a bit different and for baby #3 they are well aware of the difference...for example: their last baby was about born in the elevator. Chris was at work and thankfully not very far away, but while he was driving he got another call from Ashley saying, "I'm getting ready to PUSH!!!". Chris gets home calls 911 and they begin giving him instructions, (Chris showing us the form below)
which he originally thought were to prepare her for the ambulance but then realized they were expecting HIM to do this delivery. A bit panicked, Chris follows their instructions and within minutes delivers their beautiful baby. (again showing us the form)
Now, they had no idea what they were having (boy/girl), they wanted to do that whole "lets be surprised thing", but Chris doesn't even think to look!! In his words, "I don't know, all I saw was the cord." 
Thankfully, Ashley's mom was there in time and was able to watch their other two kids and help Chris wrap the baby up while he tied the umbilical cord with a shoelace, and SHE thought to check the sex of the baby and it is a GIRL!!! 
Mom and baby are good...
EMT's showed up right after. She weighed 6lbs 7oz and is 19 inches long and does not have a name yet.
Thankfully, this baby was born in NH, and NH requires that you have a name after only 3 days...mass gives you 10 days. So, hopefully we will have a name for this princess very soon.
In the meantime...Daddy is LOVIN' being the HERO! (see sticker below)
Don't won't to do too much 'educating', all at once anyway, so here is a normal post. Trash creations...below is a car Nora made for her stuffed dog.
Emma and her car.
Maybe not in this way....With a bit of research, one can realize just how much of a problem this has become. In one recent case, two Chicago women were charged for selling girls as young as 14 years old on Craigslist. The girls were forced to have sex with 10-12 men per day, and the traffickers made tens of thousands of dollars. A Boston man and his niece were charged with plotting a child trafficking operation with teenagers as young as 13 by selling them on Craigslist to predators from Massachusetts to New York. These cases are just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, law enforcement efforts to fight trafficking nationwide are consistently reporting a spike in online Craigslist ads, and how sex trafficking has “moved online” lately.
In Washington, DC, we see an average of 500 of these such Craigslist ads each new day. Yet, it is important to realize that a significant percentage of these ads on Craigslist do not advertise solely “legal escort services” as Craigslist may like to believe. Instead, a considerable percentage of the ads are a thinly veiled guise for one of the many faces of human trafficking that exists here in the United States...."
Click here to read the rest of this article!
Please educate yourself so you can be of some help to these these women and children.
ABC News reports that:
"The FBI estimates that well over 100,000 children and young women are trafficked in America today. They range in age from 9 to 19, with the average age being 11.
And many victims are no longer just runaways, or kids who've been abandoned. Many of them are from what would be considered "good" families, who are lured or coerced by clever predators, say experts..." (read the rest of this article here including a few stories of girls that were held as slaves in America, maybe right near YOU)
"To injure a child is a serious injury against the Maker of that child.... As I sat three tables away, an involuntary witness to his crime, questions formed a full-speed collision in my head. How old was she? Could I talk to her? Could I stop this "transaction?" How could this Cambodian man bring her here and betray her into the hands of such a person? I only had time to snap a picture with shaky hands before they were gone, the Cambodian man one way, the American and his new entertainment, clutching only one small bag of possessions, gone the other. "Be careful friend," I shouted after her, my attempt at Khmer causing her to throw a look my way. A look that said, "I know this is wrong, but I have no choice...."
...Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, is home to over 300 brothels. The girls inside, as young as age 4, are from Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia. They have been tricked, purchased, often drugged, transported across national borders and are now held emotionally and physically captive to the demands of those who would profit monetarily from their destruction. People from in town and from every "civilized" country know this forgotten land to be one of cheap and abundant perversion with "no consequences." Though deepest in Cambodia and the surrounding nations, this disease is worldwide, with over one million children currently in the snare of sex trafficking and exploitation..."
Nora was explaining to me all the different vegetables she just loves....
I really don't know what they are creating but the girls do this to the stairs very often. I have been filling a tub of recycled items for them to take when inspired and create something out of it. I have been impressed with some of their creations, although I need to stock up on tape. I really can't describe the above or also why my shampoo is decorating the stairway, but below...Is a creation made by Hannah, and it is a car pulling a boat.
The picture below is just to prove that I don't do it all (as a few of you believe). My counters usually look like this throughout the entire day.
Emma: "Nora, there are one million people in the world."
Cuddle up and read just a bit longer...
Shut the phone off, sit on the floor, and play.
enter into their world and laugh
play
imagine
and remember what LOVE is in their eyes
" There's always,
There's always,
I wonder what would really happen if I stopped somehow
You wake up a few years later and your kids are grown And everything is important But everything is not At the end of your life your relationships are all you're got
And love to me (your children) is when you put down that one more thing and say 'I've got something better to do' And love to me is when you walk out on that one more thing and say 'Nothing will come between me and you Not even one more thing'
There will never be an end to The request upon your time It's your place to stand up and tell the world You've got to rest awhile
And everything is important But everything is not At the end of your life your relationships are all you've got
And love to me is when you put down that one more thing and say 'I've got something better to do' And love to me is when you walk out on that one more thing and say Nothing will come between me and you Not even one more thing"