Blogger vs. Blogger

I'd like to seek pardon of those unfamiliar with the events that occured last week leaving a venerable blogger Erin at Mother Lode not exactly speechless, and with excellent reason. You may choose to read her post for a heartfelt, passionate, and complete retelling. Or you may accept this simple summary: unbeknownst to Erin a "fellow" blogger took photos of Erin's adorable twins she had up and posted them on her own blog...

Justifiably, the blogging community aware of this, through the alerting of one of Erin's diligent followers, reacted with appropriate anger, outrage, and support of Erin, of course. This issue has barely left my mind, as I'm sure is true for multitudes of others. Being the politically correct person that you know me to be, ahem, I offer you another side of the story. In fairness, I believe we must consider another scenario, demonstrating our compassionate analytical natures.

Think about this. The blogger, unknown in real life to us, might be a shriveled, shriveled, shriveled up old, old, old lady whose lonely existence has driven her to hallucinations as she awaits death in her urine-infused nursing home.Perhaps her suffering has lain dormant for all the years of her adult life...til now, as she blogs and "borrows" children from others...perhaps this the one ray of sunshine in her otherwise dismal life...perhaps the woman is suffering delusions of age-related dementia...not even certain that what's she's doing is wrong...maybe she's being fed intravenously and bedridden...are you crying yet?



Perhaps her feeble hands tremble so that she cannot even post on her own. A truly dedicated nursing assistant (as we know all nursing home aids to be) has chosen to help her, from the goodness of her heart, working above and beyond the call of duty to arrive early and stay after hours to fill this pain-ridden emotionally scarred individual with a mere few moments of vicarious pleasure.



Maybe not. Maybe she is merely unlike most mothers. Perhaps she is not the mother like myself who privately carries the conviction that her daughter is beautiful. She, unlike others, may know the truth: her kids are not beautiful. They're not even cute. Her kids are ugly.




Imagine that, if you will. Having ugly kids...and knowing it! I don't think I could bear it for a minute. Aghast and appalled at the sight of her own offspring's faces...daily seeing photos of beautiful children...children belonging to others...yet, unable to find even a glimmer of "pretty" in her own...oh, God, I feel sorry for her. I can't think of a way to rectify her dilemma or ease her pain...but I hope in the future, even though she's made her blog private, should she choose to read another...someone will kindly let her know I will share some pictures because I really feel bad for her.



Okay, going to be serious again. Just thought this was super funny! Here are the pictures I am more than willing to share. I know what you are thinking...WOW that is really nice of me and you know what? You are right. I am just a very nice person.







We all know newborns can look like little old men (even the girls) but beyond that stage? Can you imagine having to coddle an ugly baby in your arms? Tickle an ugly toddler? Kiss an ugly preschooler "good night"? Take a picture with Santa and hear people remark "How cute!" referring to the fat guy in the red suit?

How torturous to awaken each day with an ugly child in your face. Before coffee.


Erin, in no way does this diminish the travesty that you experienced. I hope you know that; I believe you do. I just hope this woman minimizes the travesty of her ugly children, too.

To those of you to whom my reference to ugly children may be offensive, not that your own are ugly, of course, may I suggest that in addition to an onerous comment you leave below you consider the formation of "Ugly Children Unite" or some other such to highlight the burden of this underserved population. For my own efforts, I, too, have trouble labelling children "ugly"....but, hey, it's not me doing so...it's their own mother!!!