Enough Already!

I hope you are as tired of hearing about Nadya Suleiman as I am. The poor woman is just trying to get on with her life, take care of her children in two different places and what does she get? Her life under a microscope.

Did she show poor judgement? Who knows? Let's give the poor lady a chance to raise her children and see if she can really do it. The Bible says "I can do ALL THINGS through Christ who strengthens me." Not only that but she is not the first one to have multiple births by invitro fertilization and be unemployed. Jon and Kate Gosselin already had 2 children when they decided to have six more. At that time, neither one of them was working and they didn't get hate mail or social scrutiny. They got our support and a TV show!

Will the tax payers have to support her children? Probably, for a while at least. But Nadya is not the first woman to participate in WIC. My niece is currently an participate and no one is bad-mouthing her. Yes, she has one and Nadya has eight with three already receiving SSI, but what difference does that make? We are supporting all nine babies along with 2.4 million other children according to the census bureau. Why single her out?? And as a former teacher I can tell you there are families that have four or five children and are receiving SSI for all of them due to learning disabilities the most common of which is developmental delay. So why be angry with Nadya for doing the same thing? And out of the six she already has, she only has three that are receiving SSI, one of which is autistic. She is definitely not trying to "live off the system" or she would find a way to have all six on SSI.

Then there is the insanity these poor children have already suffered through. Since all the children are under seven, you know those hundreds of strangers with cameras chasing them everywhere has to be scary, in fact, probably terrifying. Society claims that its only concern is for the safety and health of these children. THEN LEAVE THEM ALONE ALREADY! How would you like being chased with a camera 24/7? How many of us could get the good parenting award if someone had been following us with a camera day and night? She and her children are just as human as the rest of us and all this attention cannot be good for them. Just stop, okay!

I told myself I was not going to wade in on the "Octomom" issue, but yesterday when I saw the damage caused by supposedly Christian people, cameramen as well as neighbors, to her LEASED home, I was outraged. The garage door was dented outward from the people trying to crowd into her garage to get a picture. There were so many people on her lawn, the grass was destroyed and the bricks on the walk were broken loose. Who has to fix that? Her or her landlord probably. How long do you think this landlord will be willing to continue the lease when he can see his property being destroyed? Probably not long. He has an investment to protect. Personally, I think every idiot that was on that lawn and in that garage should chip in and fix all the damage themselves. I was raised that if you break it, then you fix it!

I also would like to address all the other pro-life advocates about their anger. Nadya saw all those embryos as a LIFE. She did not want them to be destroyed for stem cell research. So she did the VERY unpopular thing and had all six implanted. Now it is time to decide which is more important: our pro-life stand or our pocket book. If it is our pro-life stance, then it is up to all of us to see that all those precious children receive everything that they need to grow up healthy and happy. She saved six lives! If she had pulled six drowning children out of the water she would be a hero! But she chose to save six little embryos by having them all implanted at once. America, it's time to choose. Are we pro-life or not?

Finally, Matthew 7:1-2 states, "Do not judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves. For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others, you will be judged and criticized and condemned, and in accordance with the measure you [use to] deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you." (Amplified Bible) Christians, we need to stop judging, condemning, and criticizing Nadya and start loving her. John says that we can identify the followers of Christ by the way we love others. Jesus is our example and He loved the "unlovable." Well, Nadya Suleiman is at the moment, "unlovable." Let's show her that we Christians have not forgotten our calling and love her.

I don't agree with everything she has done. I agree that all this is a little, okay, a lot, over the edge. So what? She is a child of God and in my own small way I intend to try to give her and her children their "normal" life back. What about you? C'mon. ENOUGH ALREADY!