A "Penn"y For Your Thoughts

I have been busy today to say the least, but a blogsite from a "insider" has me thinking. I hate to keep harping on these sites, but after taking a half hour this morning (and a lot of coffee) my mind was reeling about what to write about. So I have about three posts I hope to get out tonight. Sorry this is just the journalist in me, but man can some bloggers make it really easy to write about stuff.

There was a post about ethics and good memories about the Gosselin children. While I enjoy the fact I could read about this moment, it was the comments that made me actually gasp out loud and sit back and think. The thoughts turned from critiques to name bashing. I understand why the moderator closed the comment section, but what I don't understand is why this mod felt the need to keep the site going. Just by posting another blog and insinuating things about a private situation is like pouring alcohol on an open wound.

I don't know about anyone else, but I keep getting the nagging suspension that the moderator is feeding off of the bad vibes because of her own experience. I know how easy one can get sucked into the negativity and start to think about all the little things that got on your nerves. I am sure that Kate probably said things that grated on a person nerves and while one may be able to shake them off, after talking to others one starts thinking differently. But come on, do you really have to egg on some of these fanatics. Yes I said it. Fanatics! The ones who seem to think that it is their sole purpose on Earth to stop Jon and Kate come H*ll or High Water. But what they don't know is that everytime they watch the show or speak out about it, it is the production company and the film company that is laughing all the way to the bank. Not Jon and Kate. Don't you think the TLC loves the controversy. I am not saying that they don't love the kids, but come on. Those negative blog sites are bringing in more and more people. Thus, more and more ratings!

But I digress. I guess my main gripe is that today's main post is about another website and what Kate said on it? So what???? I thought the main point of the blog was to tell the world your own personal experience? Isn't it up to people like me and countless others to post what Kate said or didn't say? If you ask me, I think some feelings are still hurt from the other day and the comments that were said.

But seriously, when will people grow up and move on? It's a show. We don't know if they are there all the time. We don't know if they are telling her and Jon what to say. We don't know if the children are "traumatized" as some have called it. We just don't know. And obviously the people in the neighborhood don't seem to bothered by it (which is surprising and worth taking note of) then why should we. I understand what Paul Peterson is saying. And while I understand what he is trying to do, I do not see script people, or the countless others it takes to make a daily TV show. I doubt they have lights permanently installed in their home. (Though if they did that would be a huge breaking point in selling their house...just think of the holes those lights would have caused by the drilling.) Anyway, what I am saying is I hope and pray that the cameras aren't there all the time, and while I don't care to see them sitting on the potty it is what it is.

And I understand that people get hurt. I know what its like to tossed aside like a rag doll after helping. I got thrown under a bus once. A co-worker of mine used me until she got what she wanted and then she threw me under the bus and then had the bus go in reverse and go back over me again. But what I learned from that experience is that you can't trust everyone and that you should keep your guard up and not get too invested until you know for sure that they are you are truly sure they are your close friends. Meaning that if a neighbor or someone in my community has 2, 3, or 6 babies tomorrow I would help knowing that there will come a time when my services are no longer needed. Now I don't agree with how Kate went about telling the volunteers, but at the same time if I had 1o or more people coming in and out of my house I would probably ask So and So to tell others if they see them that we got it. That's just me. Time is precious and something that goes by very fast. If I sat on the phone and thanked every person who helped me after my first child was born I would just be getting off the phone. It is what it is!!! Don't harp on it.

Remember we reap what we sow...and that includes blogs.