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Emily said...
I think readers are grossly underestimating the dangers of a collapsing crib. You are all so concerned with the child under, but there is a baby IN the crib. In the event of a collape, my child under would not be seriously hurt by the impact, but he would certainly be awakened and bothered by it. The child on top could be strangled in a collapse. Daniel would quickly make a fuss about a large heavy mattress on top of him and we would be immediately alerted to the situation. Babies die in crib collapses because the parents don't know it happened until the morning.
As far as decluttering further, people act as though I am the only one living here. This is not all my stuff and I simply don't have the authority to declutter more than I have.Concerned, I don't think your link quite worked. Can you post it again?
Um, Readers are underestimating the dangers? What the heck? And she can 't get Dna to part with Brad, but she can get him to go along with starving the children and wallowing in filth? Yeah, not buyinh it.
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Well, FFS. I'm going to use my 6 month old as my security system then. Surely, she'll cry when someone breaks a window or picks the lock and comes in. And if a fire starts or there's excess carbon monoxide in the house, I'm sure I won't sleep through her coughing and hacking from her crib in the next room. ::eyeroll::
ReplyDeleteWhiskey.Tango.Foxtrot.
ReplyDeleteHoly Jesus Flucking Christ.
ReplyDeleteWords fail me. There is something very wrong with her mentality.
She thinks strangulation of the baby in the crib is more likely than knocking out the kid (who is only 3) under a kid? Is she stupid? If something collapses, I'd rather be on top in open air than stuck underneath. I hope she's not planning on including physics in her homeskooling.
ReplyDeleteOk....found some words. She spend all day (and years before) defending that shelf that was sitting on a crib, with a noose made of fabric with toys on it because there was just no way her child would hurt himself with it. Her eldest son was sleeping in pee every night under the crib and was just in a coma due to ________ (your best guess, not Emily's lies). She is told over and over her house is a death trap and she as petulant child do, has a massive temper tantrum and tells us we "can't tell her what to do...HMPH!". But this....this is just too much. I cannot believe she is making it look like she is some sort of genius for pointing out that the child in the crib of death would be hurt more than the pee soaked child under it and chastising us for not making a bigger deal about it. It's hard to pick just one thing to be concerned about when there are literally dozens of things to worry about. That is some set of brass balls she's got there.
ReplyDeleteUnflucking believable
Yes, Emily, we are all so concerned with that silly thing under the crib that we are fogetting all about the precious baby in the crib!!!! Why he could strangle!!! THAT'S why youhave your dog under the crib, right? To warn you if something hapens t your precious child who is IN the crib? Who cars if the thing under the crib gets a little bump on teh head or something? His cries will alert you that the baby IN the crib is HURT!! It's not like the thing under the crib has been in a COMA recently or anything!
ReplyDeleteYou are dumb as hair. Please get help.
I am really starting to think that Emily is mentally unbalanced. I'm not saying it to be snarky. There is no other explanation for her actions and comments. Something is mentally wrong with this woman.
ReplyDeleteI decided to be like Emily today. I made my own noodles. But I used a ratio of 2 eggs to 1 cup of flour not her 3 to 1 ratio of flour and water. And my noodles are going in a chicken soup that has lots of fresh veggies in it..not being tossed with stevia flavored tomato paste pretending to be ketchup. A dozen eggs were 1.50 so I used 25 cents of eggs...is she really so strapped that she can't spare an extra quarter?
ReplyDeleteSo many people have told her that little Dan could hit his head so easily down under that crib since it doesn't have the proper clearance. So many people have told her that the crib needs to be dropped to a lower setting. And she's worried about the materials of the nap mat that someone suggested she look into?
I really can't believe her.
And Emily, since I'm sure you lurk here....your crib is not a trundle crib. A trundle STORES under another bed and is PULLED OUT to sleep on. So little Dan likes to sleep under there. And you just let him? there are things that my toddler does that are not in his best interest like trying to eat the kibble out of the dog dish or climbing on top of the table. As the RESPONSIBLE parent, I stop him and don't let him do these things even though they are things he likes to do.
Also, she seems so put out that she opens up her home to the internet and all we do is complain, but no one asked her to open up her home. this is the internet, no one knows her personally, we are looking for entertainment, not love. She DOES come off as mentally imbalanced. "see what I've done for you, and all you can do is complain". Ok. Then stop doing it. No one cares.
ReplyDeleteI'm starting to think she IS mentally challenged, like the above poster. No normal person could have such backwardass logic.
ReplyDeleteThis woman has some SERIOUS issues. How in the world could a mattress and springs falling on a child NOT hurt him? How would the baby in the crib be strangled? What's in that crib to strangle the baby?? It's DANGEROUS to allow your child to sleep under the crib. Get the child a real bed woman. PLEASE.
ReplyDeleteEmily, I'm assuming you're reading this...your home is disgusting and how you have managed to dupe readers into thinking your filth and clutter are clever, I'll never know. Your home is very unsafe and you sound like a truly terrible parent.
On crack? No. Snorting Stevia, possibly.
ReplyDeleteAlso, hope you don't mind I took her blog off my blog roll and added this one instead. I figure the few hundred people who used to go to her blog via mine, can now come to yours.
Did you know you can Google Emily and find out certain comments that she posts? I just ran across one from her
ReplyDelete"When you are ready to have a baby, you will be SO prepared. Our first two were hospital births and they were horrible. Our attended homebirth was amazing. DH want to do another attended homebirth before we think seriously about an unattended homebirth, but that is what I would like to be doing ultimately. You have some great resources listed here!"
That is scary. She wants to have an unattended birth for her children?
"That is scary. She wants to have an unattended birth for her children?"
ReplyDeleteDuh. She's being frugal.
How do you get to be as weird as Emily (barring jarring skull impact)? I would bet a nickel that she acts like this because she resents being told what to do as a child by her mother (with whom she obviously has no good relationship). I predict she was a stubborn child who wasn't particularly bright, bossed other children around to feel important, was deparate for her mother to love her, and when that didn't happen, rebelled, found a moron she could marry who loved her, and is set to prove to her mother she can do it all on her own. You can just feel the seething in her voice when anyone criticizes her.
ReplyDeleteSo little Dan is the collapsing crib alarm?
ReplyDeleteThere really is no reasoning with her. She's flat out crazee.
If anyone in their families really cares about them they really should get involved and intervene.
I know that her mom knows about Emily's blog but perhaps she doesn't read it.
I posted a response when a commenter asked for suggestions and she didn't post it, so I'll post it here:
ReplyDeleteThis is what I would do - get rid of all of the books in her bedroom. If she removed all of those books, which do nothing but catch dust anyways, she could instead purchase some dressers or toy chests to hold all of the stuff that is currently in the closet.
She could sell the books for cash or donate them to the library. If she donates to the library, then she knows they will be there for her if she ever wants to read them again.
Then, with all of the free room in the closet, she could get some sort of bunk bed or twin sized bed and store all of the boys clothes underneath it in storage bins.
Or, she could put the crib in her bedroom where the bookshelves are and use the crib space for toddler bed for little Daniel.
I have a feeling that she didn't post my comment because I mentioned that the closet was probably too small for a twin sized bed.
Of course she wants to freebirth. She's certifiable. She probably hated the hospital because the nurses told her to push.
ReplyDeleteOh no Scottish- but they USE ALL of those books on a REGULAR basis. She would never consider giving them up. *eyeroll*
ReplyDeleteAlso, did you see the comment from her on how the apartment is already decluttered beyond Dans comfort level? I have a feeling he's one of those people that grew up poor, so now they have to hoard things to feel secure.
Of course I don't mind that you come here instead :) I don't know how long this blog will be in existence in it's current form as Emily whined to Blogger and I had to take down some of the posts. I'm hoping that by adding my own comments in with her blog posts that it will constitute original material, but we'll see.
ReplyDeleteI think Emily is wanting unattended home births so she can stay under the radar of anyone who may be a mandated reporter.
Welcome Scottish Twins :)
An excerpt of her comment..
ReplyDelete"Marcie, I have decluttered way beyond Dan's comfort zone. I don't know how other households run, but my husband has a say in what we have and I do my best to make it work."
It must be the only thing he has a say in.
She probably thought the hospital births were "horrible" because they wouldn't let her put the babies under her hospital bed to act as an alarm in the event that her bed collapsed. Those bossy nurses!
ReplyDeleteEmily,
ReplyDeletePlease stop trying to make some BS reason up for stashing your child under the crib! He along with the rest of the childern you have or are going to have need and deserve to have beds that are more than urine soaked pads on the floor. You state that your looking to get something besides the mat on the floor, dont over think this one...get them a bed! Not some crazy cock stand creation like a hammock or who knows what.
By the way invest in some veggies that are fresh. Fresh does not mean frozen it means that you get them from that aisle in the store where you have to decide which ones to take because there is piles of the same type all in presorted bins....
Bravo. India.Tango.Charlie. Hotel.
ReplyDeleteAs if Dan has a say in anything? Give me a break.The guy can't put a coherent statement together and he's beyond his comfort zone.
Bravo. Uniform.Lima. Lima. Sierra. Hotel. India. Tango.
If she free birthed she wouldn't have to worry about washing her red sheets beforehand or even herself. She could steralize her equitment in the crockpot and use the rope from her shelves to tie the umbilical cord off. She could eat the placenta right after the birth without an audience.
ReplyDeleteSay what??? Does she even realizing what she's making herself look like? She's getting all defensive because she's finding that sooo many people are thinking her decision for where her kids sleep is very dangerous. Now, she's trying to turn it around on her readers and say that THEY are being the irresponsible ones! HA! Wow.
ReplyDeleteAnyone else love the comment where she wrote she "doesn't have the authority?" As if her dumbass husband would even notice?? They are as batshit as people can be. Someone needs to get ahold of their families or CPS and figure out what they can do to help their poor children. It's so sad to think of that sick child sleeping under a crib on a matress with no sheets when the mother clearly has the funds to do better.
ReplyDeleteShe's posting my comments but can't seem to understand how supporting the statement "all Jews will burn in hell" is pretty obscene. Somehow thinking Jews are bound for hell for not believing in Christ is better than Hindus believing that Dalit are in a lower state of rebirth even though they too can eventually reach moksha through samsara. My head hurts.
ReplyDeleteMove to Wordpress if Blogger shuts you down. And then put some ads on this bia and you'll be all set :)
ReplyDeleteI will move it to wordpress if it comes to that. I don;t give up easy, LOL.
ReplyDeleteWe have a bunk bed, and when my kids were 7 and 4 (4yo on bottom), the 4yo laid on her back, put her feet on the top mattress and PUSHED. Guess what happened? That damn top matress fell on top of her. Luckily, my 7yo was in the room (on her bed when it fell!) and came screaming to come get me. Also, more luckily, 4yo wasn't hurt at all- just scared. Dh put some extra supports under the mattress so it doesn't happen again.
ReplyDeleteSo her theory about the kid underneath "making a fuss" isn't exactly plausible. Here's the only thing she has to do to fix this problem: PULL OUT THE FUCKING MATTRESS!!
I think I need to walk away from these blogs- Emily just fills me with rage with her stupid bullshit. TONS of people are writing to her about safety hazards and she's going, "Wasn't it nice of me to show you around?"
I think she has some kind of mental illness, seriously. i don't know what, but something's not right upstairs with her.
Here's a simple thing they could do to reduce clutter without losing any possessions. Take all their cds and dvds, put them in cd/dvd cases, and get rid of the boxes they come in. They'd go from having shelves of them to having a couple of binder sized books. How is that so difficult and beyond big dna's comfort level.
ReplyDeleteGizmola, you are presenting an excellent debate to Emily today, but she lacks the knowledge to properly debate the issues. She chooses to answer questions that she can easily regurgitate doctrine, but simply ignores your questions that would require her to have an independent thought.
ReplyDeleteWhy would a collapsing crib strangle the baby in it? Does she keep a noose around his neck?
ReplyDeletenot sure if someone else posted this... but she meant OVER-estimating, not underestimating ... when people were telling her the danger. she's an idiot.
ReplyDeleteI think our Em is just rationalizing (hi Emily!). If she points out something her readers didn't point out as a safety hazard, then obviously they aren't as smart as they think they are because they didn't think of everything. And, if they didn't think of everything, then obviously they must be wrong about the other stuff too because if they were right they would have thought of everything (circuitous logic, anyone?)
ReplyDeleteI can see her sitting in front of her computer with her fingers in her ears saying "la la la la la la la la I can't hear you" with all of these negative comments coming in.
And, as to her not being "allowed" to declutter - does big dna think that all those books mean that someone's going to come into their apartment and think "wow! look at all those books! dna must really be smart!". Yeah, like that's going to happen.
I don't have children, but my heart breaks for those poor little undernourished, underactive, rolling around in urine on a plastic mattress boys.
wouldn't a collapsing bed suffocate the child under it???
ReplyDeletei'm thinking his screams, if he could even scream, would be quite dampened...
she's an idiot.
Really, her best shot back at the comments about her child sleeping on a bare, pissed soaked mattress UNDER his sibling's crib is that the child sleeping in the crib could strangle if the crib crashed on the child under it?
ReplyDeleteCan someone with some knowledge of mental illness help me out here? What's the medical term for her illness?
Last night after tucking my child into a nice warm bed with soft, clean flannel sheets and smoothing a clean, soft blanket over him, I walked out of his room and thought about that poor little chap being laid down on that bare, pissed on mattress, in that room of horros, in a cold house, and just wanted to cry.
How can she brag about the money she is making on her blog and not take care of her children better? I'm not talking about buying them expensive things, but my goodness, a bed, with sheets, and a clean blanket. Is that really too much to ask Emily.
She disgusts me.
Anon @4:19, you hit the nail on the head. I sat in my sons room today, his truly cheerful, red and yellow slightly cluttered with fun toys, his own twin sized bed with soft clean sheets and played a game with him, nice and warm while the snow fell outside and I thought of those poor little boys at Emilys. I thought about how they live and how they probably don't feel safe and warm, after sleeping on the floor on plastic and I serioulsy wanted to cry. Then I felt so angry at her. Really angry at her snippy self rightous greedy attitude and the fact that she has the nerve to put it all on a blog to flaunt, like her children's suffering is somehow nobel? Poor sweeties.
ReplyDeleteOH dear god free birthing out of this one. I shudder at the though of big DNA's bagel munchin slack jawed mug being responsible for catching anything other than ridicule and pity.
ReplyDeleteAnd PP I believe that Emily's mental illness is known as bat sh*t crazy
i love this blog.
ReplyDeleteokay, you know what bothers me most about emilys whole "thing" - the fact that her and dna get to have a big room, dna has his precious satellite radio, etc. but the kids sleep/live in these nasty quarters.
i don't know how anyone could rationalize giving a little kid a used wallet and toothbrush for christmas...idgi!
I had a truly shitty childhood. My mother raised us in poverty (although not eating tube meat and the like) and when I grew up, I rebelled like crazy. I worked hard and paid my bills on time. I married a man who wasn't abusive. I keep my home clean and uncluttered and I don't buy things I don't need. Everything that was negative about her, I refused to be. We have almost no relationship now and if I don't have to see her, I don't.
ReplyDeleteThose little boys are going to come in contact with normalcy some day, and they're going to run as far and as fast as possible from their parents and never look back. If they make it to adulthood.
I wonder if Blogher (Emily's chief source of blogging income) cares that they are directly supporting someone who appears to clearly, and publicly, and PROUDLY, neglecting her children and putting them in danger?
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be wonderful if Emily used some of that money to buy her children sheets and beds instead of deciding to substitute a bare pissed stained mattress under a crib for a pile of blankets on the floor?
I'm surprised that Blogher wants to be associated with Emily.
I think that fairly soon Emily's only regular visitors to her blog will be the rabid, frugal fundies and maybe Blogher will drop her if she isn't getting enough traffic. However, I also think that Emily now knows that the most attention she gets is when she posts outrageously weird stuff and puts the welfare of her children in the mix.
Don't know if it's just me but enough times that I think it's weird, when I go to post a comment here and have to type in the captcha things I get things like:
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brainwhere
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Like the captcha's are commenting on Emily.
Is it just me?
One can be poor and clean. I made a comment to this effect, which she didn't print, of course. The truth is, those who are justifying her horrific squalor by the fact that others across the globe live in squalor doesn't really fly, since a lot of those people are living on about a dollar a day. Emily has her satellite, her internet, her $1300 of blogging income. There is absolutely no excuse for the horrific and dangerous squalor that she is forcing those children to live in.
ReplyDeleteI actually hope CPS visits, if only to save those children.
She is not commenting on her post about the boys "room" - I use that term as loosely as possible - anymore. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteLike everyone else I just feel so bad for those little guys. I guess the "silver lining" - if you can call it that - is that they have nothing else to compare it to. No Grandparents to have sleepovers with, who provide clean and warm beds, no friends houses to see that aren't filled to the brims with shit and squalor. At least they don't know what they are missing, sad as it sounds, its a blessing. The only thing worse than living like that is knowing that your Mom could do better for you, but chooses not to.
Is she brain dead? I just can't believe that she is thinking of putting a bunch of blankets on the floor for her kids to sleep on. While her and DNA have a big bed with sheets. Selfish bitch.
ReplyDeletePlease someone slip birth control pills in her kiefer before it is too late. NO MORE BREEDING.
Scottish Twins that is some good advice but it wont be published. I was one of Emily's readers like you were/are and at 1st I thought she was young and a little off. I do a lot of things that are a little against the norm so I am pretty opened minded. I quickly realized that she was really off and dangerous with some of the post and comments she was making.
ReplyDeleteIf she really believes that a child wouldn't get hurt if not killed by a crib falling onto them then she is idiot and Dan needs to step in and take control because she is seriously dangerous. There was a little girl her in Denver that the top of toy chest fell onto her while she was climbing into it. The idea of a little boy sleeping under a crib makes me sick. I would bet money that its why she doesn't lower the crib to the right height.
Emily has a long of internal anger inside of her and you can tell in her writing. She very much acts like a teenager that is mad at her parents and the world.
Under1000 - I really did try today. I was totally sincere in posting and trying to get her to think "outside the box." I noticed, however, that as I refuted her statements with facts and greater knowledge than hers she either ignored the fundamental question, regurgitated biblical bromides or simply removed herself from the discussion. And, actually, she wasn't the bigggest fruitloop commenting. She is ignorant in an uneducated way but not I didn't expect her to have a firm foundation in terms of history and/or world religions. Hey, I freely admitted that I am rather ignorant of Christianity and the Bible because I am. Melissa the UberChristian Freak of Nature was really the one who got under my skin today.
ReplyDeleteI know it won't, but I hope a little bit of what I was trying to get across to Emily got through. That maybe she doesn't have all the answers and that she still has a lot to learn.
Also, I simply get really, really frustrated with the whole "get to heaven only through Jesus or burn in hell" and the condescending manner in which those people think of other religious traditions. But that's just the uberatheist in me talking, I guess.
Trent from the simpledollar says he has about 10 books that he needs to keep. The rest he just gives away/exchange/sale. A dictionnary, 2 basic cookbook some books kept for pleasure that's it...
ReplyDeleteThat would free-up a whole lot of space.
Gizmola, I lurk often, but I wanted to let you know that I appreciate both your voice of reason, as well as your funny as hell posts. Don't let Emily get you down.
ReplyDeleteGizmola! Or anyone else in the know...where did this exchange of yours go down? Any chance there could be a little C&P action?
ReplyDeleteEmily, what kind of mother (I use that term loosely) are you? You are willing to use your baby as an alarm & risk your baby's life not to mention your middle child's life? Not surprising from a little girl who blogs all day on the internet & doesn't notice that her middle son is in a coma. How does it feel to know that you are the reason? You starve your children with crap food & are negligent on top of it. That is child abuse. Don't give everyone the "I don't have the authority to declutter" line. Your hubby DNA doesn't wear the pants in your family. You do. Your whole blog is B.S. Hopefully your groupies will get a clue to what you are all about. Stop the abuse towards your children. Quit your lies & step up to the plate. Good God! I pity your poor children. They are so innocent & you are screwing them up with your insane whacked out lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteWhat is Therese & what is this about a dog DNA had? Or am I missing something? I love this blog btw!
ReplyDelete"She probably thought the hospital births were "horrible" because they wouldn't let her put the babies under her hospital bed to act as an alarm in the event that her bed collapsed. Those bossy nurses!" -Anon
ReplyDeleteOMG, this one made me laugh so hard I am crying!
No home births. No more children. Emily, stop breeding!
ReplyDeleteChablis, it was her oldest son who lapsed into a coma while she was blogging away.
ReplyDeleteTherese is some water kefir that they feed sugar and Dna drinks her fermented juice, they call her a pet. Brad is an enormous stuffed dog that hands over the toilet and watches over them while they poop.
Opps, you're right! Thanks for the kefier info. Yeah, that dog is so stupid in the bathroom. LMAO
ReplyDeleteDan, grow a pair. Seriously. You allow your children to live this way. You are contributing to the problem. How does that make you feel? You are not doing your job as a parent if you don't protect your children! Grow up. You & Emily are terrible parents. It's child abuse & neglect. You both disgust me. WTF is your post even about? You write like a little child would. Stop going to your basement "church" college & go enroll yourself in some adult classes & learn how to write & spell properly. While you're at it, enroll both you & Emily in some parenting classes. Get some government help & care for your family. Get off your high horses & step up.
ReplyDeleteDan, the title of your blog is incorrect. It should be Dan's Incomprehensible Mess.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Meg, I've forgotten my old blogger sign on, and I would hate to be known as the cowardly anonymous leaver of comments. Meg, not the Meg or Megan that seem to frequently comment of Emily's blog. Meg, in Louisville.
ReplyDeleteEmily said: *This is not all my stuff and I simply don't have the authority to declutter more than I have.*
I call complete BS. As a wife and mother, you have a personal responsibility to protect your children and to make decisions for the wellbeing of your children. Whether or not big Dna likes it, it doesn't matter. If a grown man can't make decisions like a grown man (and we all know Dna couldn't find his way out of a wet paper bag without consulting Em), he doesn't deserve to make decisions to keep shit in his house that greatly effects the wellbeing of his children. YOU are a grown fucking woman, make some big girl decisions.
Secondly, freebirthing is for complete idiots. Choosing to give birth to a child without use of a professional is nothing more than your own pride taking the place of what should be concern for your unborn child. Freebirthers should be sterilized. For the love of all things holy, don't be frugal when it comes to the life (or death, ultimately) of your children.
http://babyrabies.com/2010/02/11/never-pass-up-the-opportunity-to-learn-from-fellow-bloggers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BabyRabies%2FHXQM+%28BABY+RABIES%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
ReplyDeleteOthers will soon cash in on Emily's money making ways.