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Jaci Hasemeyer from Riverside, CA
For managing a household of 13, with 10 adopted kids, The Hasemeyers founded a foster care and adoption ministry in 2001. Jaci Hasemeyer quit her job as a physical education teacher so she could devote time to their children and help run the adoption and foster care ministry. She was nominated Chief Health Officer for the Got Milk campaign and toured the country inspiring good health and exercise. For making us think twice about having to change just one set of diapers, and for inspiring us to keep our kids (and ourselves) healthy.
![One in the Travis Barker planecrash, and the other in a motorcycle accident. Her sons died just a month apart, and when we asked her to put her feelings into words she said: When one happens, you think God, that's some really bad luck. It's not supposed to happen this way. We're supposed to [outlive our kids]. With the second one, there's anger and then there's disbelief. There is that question of 'What could we possibly have done so bad to be punished like this?' But the bottom line is that it's nothing we did. It's nature. 'It is what it is.' And that's where we're at. Her story grabbed us because when faced with an unthinkable set of tragedies she found a way to think positively.](http://cdn.static.telepixtv.com/photos/momlogic/gallery-images/2008/12/little_chris_baker_270b-thumb-316x492_thumb.jpg)
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Thank you for posnitg this. I manage the page of a local rescue so I am more than rescue and adoption friendly. However, some of the rescues and cross-posters are out of control. The tagging and the over-posnitg kills me.Facebook's terms of service are clear; read and abide.
Posted at 11:31AM on February 16th 2012 by Nizar
tialdx Yeah, it is clear now ... Just can not figure out how often do you update your blog???
Posted at 5:03PM on September 6th 2011 by Cialis Rezeptfrei
I applaud to the mother who took her son car and sold it for having alchol in it because first of all he is underage and he should not have alchol in there in the first place because if he would have gotten pulled over it would have been so much worse
Posted at 2:55AM on August 5th 2010 by DAVISON
This is !#$?@ ridiculous. How do you leave your own flesh and blood in a car for that long?? How can you just forget that he's in there?? This woman should not be nominated for mom of the year. She should be in a prison cell for the rest of her life.
Posted at 8:51AM on April 12th 2010 by Megan
What a bitch. Just cause there was alcohol in the car, that does not mean he was driving drunk. Is she going to sell the house if she finds beer in his closet. Total idiot.
Posted at 8:13PM on February 1st 2010 by Spencer
This is the dumbest article I ever read.
Posted at 4:42PM on January 29th 2010 by tommy
How exactly does a person become a 'mom of the year' when she did, in fact, allow her child to die? How is that being a good mother? These choices should be about celebrating the good that people have done, not about saying, "Well at least she's sorry," when something has gone wrong.
Posted at 11:11AM on November 30th 2009 by Fiona
leaving a 9month year old baby in a car for SEVEN AND A HALF HOURS IS NOT A MISTAKE! wtf. how do you even step away from the car without your 9 month old baby?! seriously?!?!
Posted at 2:04PM on September 16th 2009 by shelby
Alcohol possession is not alcohol abuse. I spent years with a circle of friends who drank alcohol frequently and stupidly and still never got behind the wheel drunk. The closest I ever saw one of my friends come to driving drunk was when one of them tried to take his keys back not to drive, but to make whooshing noises with his Superman charm. He was perfectly content to let his girlfriend hold on to the actual keys.
Posted at 1:35PM on July 28th 2009 by Cassi
Wait, she's a hero because she sold her adult son's car against his will? I understand he should not be drinking, nor should he have alcohol in a car, but he is still an adult. Was the alcohol even open? If he wasn't sloshing it in the car, I would hardly call that a heroic act. And yes, I am a mother.
Posted at 1:46PM on July 27th 2009 by Lisa
Jane Hambleton..KUDOS to U..U Did the RIGHT THING !! I would do to my son too...Alcohol+Drugs is a 'No No' for me. GREAT JOB & WELL DONE !
Posted at 10:20AM on July 16th 2009 by Duncan
Wonderful choices for Mom Of The Year. Even though I cannot stomach the thought of a baby being left in a car for that long in any weather. At least she is taking responsibility and trying to help others by sharing her mistakes. I respect that.
Posted at 10:23AM on December 22nd 2008 by Kadi Prescott
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