especially when those stupid-ass shows have something to do with a child or a baby in trouble. damn.

especially when i watch those stupid-ass shows by myself while my baby is 30 miles away at her grandparents house. have mercy.

you know how, at the end of the Grinch, his heart grows so big that it almost bursts out of his chest? and he has this look on his face, like it hurts but in a really good way?

this is how i feel all the time now.

and i literally cannot understand how any human being could ever hurt a child. i have sympathy, even empathy, for a lot of people in a lot of bad situations, but ... anyone who hurts a helpless child ... well, i suggest that you steer clear of me. for example, in WAL-MART last night ... (you knew any negative story about parenting was going to involve wal-mart, didn't you?) this woman walking in front of me kept telling her daughter not to touch the bags of plastic easter eggs hanging in front of her. the girl is maybe a year-and-a-half old, and she is so fascinated with the pearly bright easter colors. her little face is just gorgeous and funny and fat and she is just oohing and ahhing over these cheap little plastic eggs. it was completely adorable. i could have watched her for hours.

her mother on the other hand ...

grabbed, and i mean GRABBED, her chubby little hand when she reached out for them and jerked her backwards by her arm. it scared the living shit out that little girl, and she looked at her mom with such a look of fear and mistrust that would have been more at home on the face of a thirty-year-old.

man, i'm about to bust out crying just thinking about it. i thought long and hard about the repurcussions of stealing her away ... but in the end my fear of johnny law won out.

but that woman better keep a close eye on that little one. cause next time i might be more brave.