Diversity in the Coca Cola Super Bowl Ad

As we all know, diversity has been a big problem, but it is getting better over the years as many people and companies are finding solutions to the "problems." Currently, a lot of people are throwing a fit over the recent Coca Cola commercial that aired during the super bowl. The commercial is of a couple skating with their daughter and other young people that are singing the song "America the Beautiful." The big fuss about the ad is currently that the couple skating with their daughter was a gay couple and three of the young people that were in the ad were Muslims who were wearing their traditional head coverings. I see absolutely no problem with this ad because it shows how diverse the United States is and Coca Cola is not a company that is discriminating amongst certain racial groups, sexual groups, etc. The song is sung in six different languages during the commercial. I believe that if people worried less about how others choose to live their lives, the world would be a much happier place within certain situations. Now, I would not agree with someone choosing to live their life as a murderer or rapist, etc.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/brad-bannon/2014/02/19/cokes-super-bowl-ad-demonstrates-corporate-support-for-diversity

No Gift Better Than An Organ For This Woman On Valentine's Day

  

Yesterday was Valentine's Day or as most single people refer to it as Single's Awareness Day. Now typically you hear of all these cute couples going out to a nice fancy dinner, getting flowers from their significant other, getting engaged, or anything that a typical couple would do on Valentine's day. It is a day that a lot of women expect something from whatever man they are with and a day that a lot of men are seen going into flower shops and other places to buy gifts in hope that they charm their lovely lady. However, I do not believe that anyone would ever expect to be receiving an organ from their ever so loving husband on Valentine's Day like this lady did. She has been suffering from Crohn's disease for awhile now and her husband decided that on Valentine's day he would undergo a procedure to give her his kidney so that she would not ever have to undergo the painful dialysis treatments that most other patients face. The couple has had such a lovely story from the start, but the man has done such a wonderful thing for his wife. We need to be reading about more of these stories in the news than the stories that involve criminal activity. This has to be one of the most touching and loving stories that I have ever read about in my life. What love he has for her.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/husband-wife-life-saving-kidney-transplant-valentine-day-article-1.1615200

My Daughter's Father

I would like to introduce this man to everyone. This man is my daughter's father. I have so much that I could say about him and although there are a few negatives, there are quite a significant amount of positives. I met him Labor Day weekend of 2012 at a softball tournament. After we first met, we talked for hours and hours every day up until we went to bed. After a couple of weeks, he decided to come see me at my apartment in Mount Pleasant. From there on, we had one of the best relationships ever. We decided to make ourselves "Facebook official" on November 3, 2012. Every weekend was spent together, we did everything together like best friends would do. On Christmas break, we spent a lot of our time together when he was not busy with work. New Years Eve we went to spend the night drinking and partying with one of his friends, little did we know that we would end up conceiving our first child that night. A few weeks went by and I had noticed that my body just felt different, so I took a pregnancy test and it came back positive. I was really scared to tell him, but I knew that I had to overcome it. At first we went through a lot of arguing and a lot of emotions but it got better as it went along. He sacrificed time with his friends and family to make sure that he was spending his weekends with me. He took me to see Luke Bryan in concert in February 2013.  He would rub my belly and give me back massages. Eventually, things got really nasty and he decided that he didn't no longer want to be a part of my life or his daughters life. It hurt me more than anything and I could not begin to describe the emotions I experienced. I went through the last 4 months of my pregnancy constantly crying because there was nothing I could do to save our relationship. I was so surprised when he decided to show up to the hospital. To this day, we argue over a lot of little things, but at the end of the day we thank each other for the best gift in the world and that would be our beautiful daughter McKenzie Rae Dickinson. Our relationship will never be the same, but I will always love him and care about him as my daughters father. <3

McKenzie loves her Uncle Sean

This is my beautiful daughter McKenzie Rae. She will be turning 5 months old on the 21st. I can't even begin to believe how much time has passed since I had her and she is getting so big. I chose to upload this photo because it means a lot to me. My best friend is a soldier in the U.S. Army and he is her godfather, so I bought this shirt so that it was a little way to support him. He has done so much for McKenzie and I that I couldn't ever begin to thank him enough.

Giving Birth to McKenzie Rae

I found out that I was pregnant on January 15, 2013. When I read that little test that said positive, I didn't know quite what to think about it. All I knew was that I was feeling all kinds of emotion and that my life was about to change. My pregnancy was probably the easiest that I know of. I never got sick, never had pains, never had anything that a typical woman does when she is pregnant. I was pregnant all summer long and that was the worst thing ever. I was always so miserable because I was huge and I didn't want anyone to bother me. On Wednesday, September 18th I went to what I hoped would finally be my last check up appointment before I had the baby. At my appointment, my doctor said that he was going to induce me on Friday. I went in at 7 Friday morning to be induced and I couldn't express my feelings. The kept increasing my pitocin because I was not feeling anything and I was not progressing at all. Once I started to progress, I progressed really fast. I was only dilated to a 1 until 11 Friday night. By 2 o'clock Saturday morning, I was ready to push. Pushing took a lot of work out of me and I almost passed out twice, but once the doctor laid the precious baby on my chest, I couldn't have been more in love.