Welcome to this week’s Giveaway Gala!   Each week, this linky will be featured on the Fabulous Collective Media Magic blogs.  You can add your giveaways as well, and they will also be featured.  Make sure you check out our featured giveaways while you are here  🙂

3 Princes and a Princess 2, Closer to Lucy, Have Sippy Will Travel, and The Thrifty Things.

Here are This Weeks Featured Giveaways!

Join the Retweet Club!

With your hosts:

@Syrana, @Marirene74, and @HaveSippy

The Rules:

1 – The first rule about the Retweet Club is to talk about the Retweet Club.

2 – Tweet the last entry on the spreadsheet (copy and paste!) – The first spot will always be about the RT Club post!

3 – Choose any post you want that’s family friendly!

4 – Add your tweet to be retweeted – typed AS you want it tweeted (refer to the first spot for an example).  Please make sure it is only 140 characters.

5 – Use bit.ly or tinyurl to shorten your post links.

6 – You can retweet more than one and post more than one request.  We ask that you retweet one for each that you post.  We will randomly tweet off the list too.

Optional – You can follow the hosts and send us a tweet telling us you are part of the #RTClub and we’ll follow you back!

If you’d like the code to post the listing on your blog, please contact me and I’ll send it to you.

**PLEASE NOTE** It takes about 5 minutes for the spreadsheet on this post to update with your submission. To see the spreadsheet and confirm your information was recorded you may CLICK HERE.

This was just shocking to me today, and I can’t even digest it.  I’m so disgusted right now….

So, we were running around all day.  My kids were really well behaved, so I told them they could choose where we grabbed lunch.  Bad move- they picked McDonalds.  Ugh.  Sigh, fast food once in a while won’t kill them, right?
SO Anyway- they eat, and there is a Play Place in this one, so they are playing, running around, etc.  There are a few other parents there as well with their kids. 

A few minutes after we got there, these two women, mothers of a combined 5 children aged roughly two to six years old, walk out the door.  Alone.  So I start to freak- but my husband points at a man alone at a table, and says that he is the dad/husband of one of the women.  I still feel odd, but think, weeeeeellll, OK.  But, it FEELS wrong, you know?

About 20 minutes later, the two women come back, park the SUV, and start banging on the doors and windows, yelling for the kids to come out.  Like, YELLING.  The kids go running out the door.  The man stays at the table- obviously NOT a daddy to those children.  No waving or talking to them or the women- he clearly doesn’t even know them!

Those women left 5 small kids alone in a McDonalds for roughly 20 minutes.  With strangers.  On a highway.  What are were they thinking?  What if they got hurt or wandered off, or even had to potty?  If they were abducted?  I wanted to go slap them, scream at them, something- my husband kept yanking me back into my chair, I was furious.  The mommy and teacher, the HUMAN in me just wanted to…I have no idea, but they just have no business being mothers.  I really try not to judge others, I REALLY make an effort-  but these women, so nonchalantly wandering off and leaving these little, little kids alone, then coming back and screaming at them like the children were at fault (let alone the rest of our kids having to hear that language) and tossing them into a car like “who cares”?

I wrote down the license plate to call the police, but my husband says to just drop it and it isn’t my business.  What do you think?
Am I being crazy, should I drop it?  What would you do?

I did tell the manager when I saw the moms coming back/picking them up, however what I really wanted to do was call the cops.  They do have security cameras at the Play Place, I gave them the license plate number, and I hope that the police get them.  But I wanted to call and make sure that they were told. If I wasn’t with my husband, who kept stopping me, the call would have been made.  Mr. “Non-Confrontation”….I’m so frustrated. I am a person of action, this is NOT how I roll…I should have called and just fought with him later, I am so mad. 

I just wanted to thank you all for being a part of my site, and a part of my bloggy-life.  I’m so happy to have you all here!  I hope you are enjoying the bashes I have here for you- I have a few more Birthday Bash prizes for you, and I hope you are enjoying everything so far!  Make sure you visit my co-host, 3 Princes and a Princess 2, and check out her Birthday Bash prizes, too!  🙂  Back To School with Style hosted by Collective Media Magic has just begun, and I know you moms will love what is coming up.  Happy reading, and thanks for being a part of Have Sippy Will Travel!  🙂
~Samantha

Hey guys- my friend over at Social Studies Momma is giving away a really great cookbook- Check it out–
The entries are easy-breazy, and it’s SUPER LOW ENTRY.   It would make a great Christmas or Birthday gift for the family chef, or for yourself if you love to cook  🙂
Have fun, and good luck!  🙂 

I just saw this- and I wanted to share it with you.  You can read the rest HERE– but there has been some sad things going on lately, and I thought…hmmm-how right he is, and how good the timing.  It would be so great if we could learn to love, just a little bit more, and if not accept people for who or what they are- at least not hate them for it, and move on.  I won’t go on in this row- he said it better then I ever could! 

The moral thing I should wish to say…I should say love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world which is getting more closely and closely interconnected we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way and if we are to live together and not die together we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.”