My thoughts on the Zimmerman/Martin trial.

First, I think our system is very flawed. 

I understand to a point why Zimmerman was not found guilty of murder. I do not understand why he was not found guilty of manslaughter. 

You can kill someone in a car accident and get convicted of manslaughter. You can build a house that falls down years later and kills the people inside and get convicted of manslaughter. 

Why was it Zimmerman's job to follow Trayvon? He was a "self appointed" neighborhood watch person. He was offered a yellow light to go on top of his car so that he would be identified as such person. He refused.

He followed Trayvon in his car, called the police and said a few racial slurs. The 911 operator told him to stay in his car and that they were sending police. 

Zimmerman didn't listen and continued to follow Trayvon on foot. 

What happens after that is obviously something none of us will ever know. 

But it is said that Zimmerman had a right to defend himself because he was fearful of his life. If he was fearful for his life, why approach Martin? Why not let a REAL cop do his job? 

I look at it from Trayvon's point of view. There was a big man stalking him in the middle of the night, who would not announce who he was. American history shows that Trayvon had every right to be scared. 

A Florida woman was convicted of 3 counts of assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to 20 years in prison because she fired warning shots at her abusive husband. She had previously filed a protective order against him and he broke that agreement. 

They were fighting previous to the shots being fired into the wall, so Marissa Alexander was denied the "stand your ground" law. Whereas Zimmerman approached this unarmed teen and shot him down. Zimmerman claimed the "stand your ground law" applied to him, even though HE approached Martin first and took the law into his own hands. 

Zimmerman walked free. Alexander is now serving 20 years in jail because she was trying to get her abusive husband to back off. 

I should mention that Marissa Alexander is a black woman. 

There is no justice for Trayvon Martin. 

This is not a win for America. 

This is a sad day and shows us that racism still exists. 

Imagine a world where Zimmerman offered Trayvon a ride to get out of the rain? 

What we look like!

This was last Christmas! Ezra was about 7 months old here. 

The difference between two pregnancies.

When I was pregnant with Ezra, I knew immediately. My home tests kept saying negative but I just had this gut feeling. 

I went to my OB and took a test there and it was positive. 

I was only 3 weeks along. It was crazy. 

With this pregnancy, I was in denial. It was a huge shock. 

Brad kept telling me to take a test and I wouldn't because I knew it would be negative. 

Then the day I was supposed to get my period, I never did. So I tested. 

I peed on the stick and before the liquid even got to the "control window" it was positive. I took three more and they were all positive. 

It came as quite a shock because we had stopped trying for a baby two cycles prior. 

We stopped because we felt that we were financially ready. 

We wanted to wait until our finances were better. But I guess this baby didn't want to wait. 

With Ezra I always felt nauseous but I rarely threw up. It lasted about a month after I found out. 

With this baby, I've been sick every day since I tested. 

But, I don't ever feel nauseous until the moment I need to puke. And then I feel fine again. 

We really want to have a girl, so because of how different this pregnancy already is I've found myself calling it a her. 

I'll be 6 weeks tomorrow. 

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I'm moving to blog spot so that I can blog the way I want to without judgement.
All I wanted to do was blog my thoughts and my life as a mother.

With that being said.

My name is Marcella. My husband is Brad. Together we have a son named Ezra and we are expecting another little one early March.

Ezra is almost 14 months. He was born May 29th 2012.
He is a happy-go-lucky toddler full of passion for exploring and playing. He is the light of my life and I hope he stays a mommy's boy for a long time.

Bradley and I will have been married for a year this September 1st. We've been together since 2009. A lot of people say they've been through hell and back, but Brad and I have been through just that.
We've come so far since we first started dating, and I am so in love with the man he's become.

As for me, I became a mother when I was 20 years old. I am a young mother, but I don't feel young.
I never wanted kids until I met Brad.
I'm starting college in the fall after putting it off for a few years.
I like to read when I can, and I like to write, although I'm not as good as I used to be.

This blog will be about my life as a mother.