to wake my children up, cry, smell their hair and be grateful?

[JjandtheBeanlovesUnicorns]

Im watching comic relief and it is breaking my heart, four babies need oxygen, only 3 can have it, one has to be sacrificed.
Ds needed oxygen at birth it just happened, like being given a plaster, we are so fucking lucky. the world is oh so wrong.

I was in tears watching the wee girl that was caring for her mum that was dying of aids. So so so sad

So sad :( it makes me realise just how much I take my family, life etc for granted :(

how on earth could you make that decision? What a shift that would be

I have just read some sad news on another thread and feel the same.

me too geordie, especially when she said if her mum died shed climb in the grave to, then oh it was just to much, im glad i text so many times to chris moyles that i have no credit and that dd ate 4 red noses so i had to keep replacing them sob sniff

(i would donate more but really truly cant)

Glad I chose not to watch it, cannot cope with the whole world's bad news every day. Did donate through DD's school. Say my prayer of gratitude every day.

YABU to wake them up. Who is this about - the children who need our help, or your own feelings? why wake your kids up in the night because you feel shit? You are donating what you can - why beat yourself up?

i wouldnt wake them (i dont have a death wish) i just have this insane urge to be near them watching this kinda stuff.

it was meant to be a lighthearted, we should be grateful thread. cripes.

sorry - your OP suggested you are waking them and smelling their hair!

I know....so heartbreaking, words just can't express. Imagine how powerless you would feel if you couldn't protect your children. We are so fortunate that we can feed out children and that we can give them healthcare if they need it. It's really another world. Feeling humbled...I too take family life for granted I guess and get plenty annoyed with my DS (3.5 yrs)...

sorry sugar, im a touch tetchy tonight

its just really made me get a grip, we are having a shitty time, we are homeless, dirt poor and miserble BUT ds is in a wonderful preschool, fully funded, he and dd are fed clothed and happy, we are in a nice bnb and my god we are spoiled compared to them, i just felt like such a total shit for feeling sorry for us.

*miserable

sobbing here. Have DD 10 weeks and watching TV has made be realise that I really could not bear losing her - just scares me so much. Whole thing makes on TV makes me feel so bloody useless but also so grateful for being in the UK and for the NHS.

Don't wake them. Let them sleep.

I'm not watching Comic Relief, though have made a donation.

What haunts me is a photo printed today of a mother who has just found her daughter's body in the charred remains of a kindergarten schoolbus in Japan.

Donate to the Red Cross, too, please, and also to Haiti.

I've started another thread saying thr same kind of thing, I just feel so sad and emotional, especially after the other awful news on here today. I can hear my DS breathing on the baby monitor and it's making my heart ache. I need to be far more grateful about my life than I actually am.

I'm not watching either (though have donated).

I spent quite a lot of time putting videos together to highlight many of the issues they show on CR - and I end up an emotional wreck with them (and it's rubbish TV inbetween the information sections).

That, in addition to Edgars tragic news, and discovering today that a mother who I am very friendly with at the school gates hasn't heard from her DD (who was in Japan at the time of the quake) since before last Friday would have been too much.

So much sadness in the world

couldnt have put it better icould.

expat- ds put his comic money in a red cross collection pot today, he only did it for a sticker but i was proud.

Jj - you feel unable to help but just by loving your own DCs you are doing so much - by putting love baCK Out there. Don't worry, we all get tetchy!

And more to come, usual, if the Fukushima 50 are not successful, and even if they are, it is likely they will not survive or will survive only shortly.

And before anyone goes wagging fingers at Japan, we have nuclear reactors here, too, and they are all over Europe and N. America as well.

I know many of you are atheists, but some of you are not. So there is a candle burning now in front of me to St. Jude (said my litany beforehand) because if we need a miracle it's right about now.

That reactor melts down and a lot of those people, those children, in slums in Indonesia, Bangladesh, The Philippines will be unable to escape.

i feel so small right now

you made me cry sugar.

I'm sorry Jj - but it's true - you love your Dc's so much and that counts for an awful lot in the great scheme of things

St. Teresa of Avila said it was by so many little things that great ones come to be.

We are very small indeed, but not so much, when we are together as one.

:)

Indeed not, esp after reading Edgars thread. Love your children like the wolf people, it could be fleeting.