My Youngest Sister & Neices Are Missing
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
My family has been putting off further action on this, but in my opinion action is long overdue. It's time to stop messing around with this and find my sister and her daughters.
The last anyone in her hometown of Warsaw, Indiana heard from my sister Tia Oconnor was in November of 2006. Tia's maiden surname was Reed, and she may now be married to Dan Smallridge, formerly of Tennessee. Tia has her three little girls with her: Summer, 3; Makenna, 4; and Tianna, 6. We are unsure if Tia was pregnant at the time she left or shortly thereafter. She also has an infant son, who is currently living with our mother, and has not seen his mother (Tia) since he was a newborn.
None of the children are Dan Smallridge's, who is also in hiding with them. The families of the fathers of the girls are concerned for their safety and would like to see them home. Several attempts were made to locate Tia and Dan over the past year and a half, but so far we have heard nothing.
Dan was arrested in Warsaw, Indiana shortly before their disappearance. He may be involved in drugs and has been known in the past to be involved in theft and is extremely adept with computers and programming. All internet traces of them have been erased. Those of you from SPM will remember Dan from the message boards and the fiasco when Tia and Dan stayed with me in Appleton in October of 2004. Tia had used Megan's screenname for a while, and Dan's was some kind of derivative of Spongebob Squarepants. Some of you may have chatted with them and/or may have been in contact with them since.
I am very concerned for the safety and well being of my sister and her daughters, and would appreciate it if you would spread the word about Tia as much as possible. There is a photo of Tia in my photo section (text link in the upper right column). I'll try to get more posted as I find them.
And pray for them! Thank you!
Tia: If you're out there, I love you. You're still my baby. I took care of you when you were a baby and I'll be here for you now. Just let me know you're ok, honey. I'm honestly worried sick. I miss my baby sister. I forgive you for everything, and I'm not mad. I never was - disappointed in you, yes. But I'll always love you.
Labels: Family, sisters, Tia
A new one for the allergist
Thursday, November 29, 2007
My youngest always manages to get more food in her hair than in her mouth. Today was no exception, and she wore my homemade pizza (yum, by the way) like hair-dye frost. Time for a bath!
Unfortunately, all my kids hate having their hair washed. My 6-year-old son can be heard three counties over screaming, "My eyes! No, no! My eyes!" as I use the tearless baby shampoo on him. Bath times are a real treat for us all.
Today it was Miss Diva's turn for the torture chamber, a.k.a. bathtub. She's usually the best of them with handling the excruciating torment of having buckets of water dumped all over her. She grabbed the washcloth, covered the entire front half of her head and bravely said, "Ok, mom, I'm ready!" She took it like a trooper.
As I was rinsing her hair she tensed up and grabbed the outer edge of the tub, flooding the bathroom floor in the process. (Not that this is a new thing. I'm quite used to having to shop-vac and/or use 50 towels to mop 6 inches of water off the floor on any given evening. But still, why must they do that?!)
In response to her imitation of a tsunami I asked her, "What, are you allergic to water now?" She immediately answered, "Yes! And soap, too!"
Half under my breath I muttered, "I hope you don't expect to get a lot of dates when you're older."
My mini diva turned to me and smiled, "I'm allergic to dates, too!"
Atta girl!
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kidsLabels: funny, kids
Everybody's a comedian
Saturday, November 17, 2007
My six-year-old son came up to me this morning with a new joke:
"Mom, how many cats does it take to change a lightbulb?"
"Hmmm. I don't know. How many?"
"A thousand! That's a lot of cats Mom!"
Meanwhile, as I try to figure out the punchline, he continues, "Now if it was baby cats, that would take like a hundred [note: we have math issues here] of them because they're really smaller and they would have to stack up to the ceiling with cats!"
He pauses here to look at our cathedral ceiling, "We have a really high ceiling, too. It goes way up and way back down, and you would need a million cats to get that high. A million cats would be a lot in this house, and Maggie and Max [our chihuahuas] would chase them and they would run all over the place and make a big mess everywhere and that would be loud, huh?"
The kid's got an imagination, I'll give him that...
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kids
