Sometimes I watch the News
The other night my husband and I were watching our local news when the face of a mother came up on the screen. It was an amber alert for Bonnie Sweeten and her daughter, who’d been reported to have been abducted in a carjacking in Bucks County. My husband quickly grabbed the remote from me as he saw me get drawn into the story. Knowing that watching the full report would most likely result in tears, he changed the channel and looked at me from his periphery to make sure I was still holding it together.
It’s really a mother’s greatest fear, is it not? Well, it’s one of mine at least. Not necessarily that I will be thrown into a trunk of a car myself, but that it will happen to one of my children. It makes me sick to think of it, and I know I am not the only mother who cried that day for a fellow mother and her child, taken from their family.
I can easily get affected by stories like that. Sometimes I would lay awake thinking about it all night. I guess my heart changed for good after I had my daughter.
There has GOT to be something wrong with that woman. There has to be. She can’t be in her right mind. I hope she now gets the help she needs.
i read about this. I was irate… I can’t even imagine…