Thinking of switching jobs? Not a bad idea, really, but what field would you like to try yourself in?
An Aussie trucker thought really hard about it and came up with a brilliant idea that took the whole world by storm.
He took to Facebook and offered his services as a rent-a-daddy. Yes, you read it right. He obviously knew how hard it is for some dads to be there whenever their kids need them, so he decided to step up for them and for single moms as well and charge for his services.
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Based on what he has to offer, it looks like Jake James (or Orr according to some) of Blue Haven, Australia, is the guy to contact whenever you need someone to fill in the role of your kids’ daddy.
Some of the services he offers are his presence at school pick-ups and drop-offs, “all sporting events” and “up to three activities of the kids’ choice”. The costs of his services start at $30. On top of all this, Jake offers “three hours of instructional learning of valuable life skills”, such as car maintenance and lawn mowing.
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However, this guy goes even further and says that for additional amount of money he would even come to family events, birthday parties, and Sunday afternoons.
No one really knows whether he posted his ad which is captioned “Trying out a new career move to get away from trucks so everybody get onboard and support your boy. Rent a daddy today,” for real or just for laugh, but what everyone knows is that it is both unique and hilarious. It definitely caught the attention of many and people are posting very positive comments. One person writes, “I don’t have kids but can I still rent you? I have fur babies if that counts,” while another adds, “I actually think it’s a good idea, good on this man for wanting to step up…where do I apply?”
The anticipation of the first ultrasound after learning they are expecting is a very special moment for every parent-to-be. That is the moment when future moms and dads get to hear their little one’s first heart beat, and that’s an experience to cherish.
When Jenny Marr and her husband Chris visited a doctor regarding her pregnancy, they never assumed the news they were about to hear. When Dr. Lauren Murray gave them a ‘strange’ look, they feared something could be wrong, but then, they were told how they weren’t expecting one baby, but three.
“I was like, ‘Oh no, there’s no heartbeat.’ And, she’s like, ‘No, there is a heartbeat.’ She goes, ‘Y’all, there’s three babies in there.’ And we were just absolutely floored,” Jenny said, spreaking with TODAY.
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A week later, these overwhelmed parents visited a maternal-fetal medicine specialist only to receive another huge surprise.
“The tech — who was doing the initial (scan) — she gave me a funny look. We were like, ‘Oh what’s going on now?’ We got worried again,’” Chris told TODAY.
“She was really cute. She said, ‘I’m not supposed to say this, but y’all got four babies.’”
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Conceiving with quadruplets naturally is sort of a miracle. These pregnancies only happen once in around 15 million and they are not only rare, but awesome. Just imagine the feeling of carrying four little souls inside your body.
Chris said: “I made the joke that I am not coming back because there are going to be five babies next time. We were just shocked. Jumping from three to four was easier to swallow. Just after that we heard they were healthy.”
And their doctor, Dr. Murray was as excited as the parents because as she said, this will probably happen only once during her career and she was happy she got to witness something so incredible.
When it comes to twin pregnancies, it can easily happen for one of the babies to be more dominant inside the womb and get most of the nutrients from their mommy. Doctors feared that could be the case here and even considered a surgery if something like that happened. But the four brothers were more than willing to share and were developing perfectly healthy.
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The pregagncy went well, so at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, babies Harrison, Hardy, Henry and Hudson were welcomed into the world on march 15, via a c-section.
“They were all born in three minutes. It’s incredible,” Jenny said. “We called them our baby birds because they really looked like baby birds.”
Three of the four bundles of joy stayed in the neonatal intensive care for 10 weeks, and early in May, there were all home.
“We just hope that this little story and our boys bring as much joy to everybody as they bring to us,” Jenny explained.
We wish this happy family all the best. They are all so cute, aren’t they?
Police officer Jeremy Henwood used to be a Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was described by many as a kind man with a heart of gold who had done a lot for this country. His family was glad he was finally home, not assuming his life would end in a tragic manner.
He survived the hostile foreign lands, but his home country turned to be deadlier. This incredible man was shot while he was driving his car, for no reason.
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Before he lost his life, he was at the local McDonald’s in San Diego where he showed his kindness one final time. As he was waiting in line, a 13-year-old boy named Daevon approached him and asked for 10 cents that he lacked to buy some food. Officer Henwood was more than happy to give him the money, and he even bought him the cookie he wanted. The whole thing was captured on the restaurant’s security camera and was shared after the officer lost his life a few miles from the restaurant.
When Daevon heard what happened, he was sad and felt like he lost someone very close. He said he will always remember how the officer stepped in for him. The family is mourning the loss of their loved one but say he will always be remembered as a kind-hearted man.
Thousands of people were present at his memorial service. Rest in peace Officer Henwood, you will never be forgotten.
Take a look at the video of this man’s kind act below. He’s such an inspiration!
Those people who leave their pets behind and treat them with disrespect are the absolute worst types of human beings. Sadly, animal abandonment happens way more often that we can assume and the number of stray canines and felines in the U.S alone is around 70,000. And that’s 70,000 reasons for our hearts to be broken in that many pieces.
The following story starts with a cruel owner, a sad puppy, and a woman who would always go above and beyond for any animal in need of help.
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Namely, Shannon has security cameras installed outside her place and it was on one of the footage that she noticed a man was carrying a box that he placed at the nearby parking lot in the middle of the night. She though it was suspicious so she decided to get out and check what was going on. She assumed there could be an animal inside the box, and just moments later, she realized she was right.
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A scared and trembling Pit Bull puppy whose ribs were visible through his skin was looking at her. The sweet little creature was confused and obviously very thirsty and hungry. “He was in such a terrible condition,” Shannon said speaking to The Dodo. “But he was still fighting and he was still hanging on.”
Shannon took him home and gave him something to eat. He didn’t look very healthy as patches of fur were lacking from his fragile body. But, the good thing was that he was now in the safe hands of his kind rescuer.
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The pup was named Jiminy Cricket and is now part of the family. He gets to spend his days around her human mommy’s kids and the rest of her dogs, who are all rescue dogs.
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As time passed by, Jiminy Cricket became comfortable around his new family and today he’s the biggest dog of all four. “This dog has been with us and has become such a part of our family,” Shannon added. “So we decided that Jiminy Cricket is staying with us and is going to be our fourth rescue dog.”
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Jiminy Cricket thought he was unfortunate to be left behind, but that turned to be the best thing as it led him to someone who truly loves him and is happy to have him around.
“The boys and I could not imagine our life without Jiminy Cricket in it,” Shannon concluded.
This is one heck of a rescue story, so stay here to learn all about Stella, a dog who spent three months fending for herself at a remote location before she was finally spotted by someone.
Matty Johnson and Zach Regan were on their boat, taking a surfing and a fishing trip near Juan de Fuca trail, the western coast of Vancouver Island. However, as the weather got bad, they decided to row their boat to the shore. It was then that they noticed something that left them in complete disbelief. A poor dog was hiding in a cave. She was all scared and shivering, and the pair had no idea how she even managed to survive there all by herself.
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“Just glancing in the caves as we were going by, I saw tan legs walk out, just a glimpse, and I thought, ‘Oh that looks like an animal,’” said Regan. “It was very clear that it was a dog … and we immediately decided it was in major distress,” he added. “It was evident that she couldn’t escape, she was stuck in this cave and little beach area.”
So, both the surfers became aware that their trip would quickly turn into a rescue mission the whole country and even the world will learn of.
According to them, the rescue involved “wet-suit, a surfboard, a lasso, almost being bitten in the face, a reef, big waves, and awesome teamwork.”
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“[Matty] one-arm paddled out, I came in with the boat and I grabbed her before she sank to the bottom because she was so weak,” said Regan.
Soon after the dog was on their boat, the three headed back home to Sooke together. Regan took a lot of photos of the dog that would later spread all over the Internet along with the amazing story of the canine that fended for herself for three months.
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Regan named the dog Shaggy Maggy as he still didn’t know her real name was Stella.
After he contacted Reuniting Owners with Animals Missing (ROAM), he learned that Stella went missing during her human parents’ honeymoon. They had the rest of their dogs with them too, but it was Stella who ran away and was nowhere to be seen. They searched for her for five days before they were forced to give up.
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“Believe it or not they were on their honeymoon on May 2 on a hike with their dogs and their dog, Stella, that we found, vanished,” said Regan.“So for three months she was there in that area doing whatever to survive,” he said. “I think it’s miraculous. It’s a god***n miracle, it’s one of the best things ever.”
The reunion was an emotional one as her owners couldn’t wait to see her again. They couldn’t believe she was alive and were overjoyed to have her back again.
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Thanks to Johnson and Regan, Stella can now get back to her old life. We are very happy everything turned for the best for her.
When Tanner Brownlee’s father, deputy Sam, died in 2010, he and his brother were very young. The loss touched them deeply and they never got over it completely, but did all in their power to continue living their lives the best they could together with their mom.
Tanner didn’t have a lot to remind him of his dad, except for some belongings among which a motorcycle jacket.
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But then, five years after Sam’s passing, the family learned that his car, a Dodge Charger, was being auctioned off. Tanner knew he had to have it. Driving his dad’s vehicle would mean the world to him, so he tried his best to find the money. He and his brother even started a GoFundMe page and managed to raise $3,340. It wasn’t much, but they knew they had to give it a go and try to get the car.
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On the day of the auction, the family bid and bid, but someone had more money to offer. When they learned their dad’s car now belonged to someone else, their hearts broke into a million pieces. None of them, however, was ready for what followed.
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As it turned out, the winning bidder knew Tanner’s story and was aware what that car meant to this young boy, so, just after he was handed the keys, the man took the stage and did something truly incredible and worth every praise. He called Tanner and said, “Here’s your car.”
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Tanner couldn’t believe what he had heard. With tears of joy running down his cheeks, he stood up and hugged the winning bidder. “This is just so huge. I mean, me and my dad built a fence and stuff. But having something I can use and drive around that he drove around, it just means a lot,” the teen said.
Tanner, who has recently learned how to drive and got his driving license, drove his mom and brother home, just like their father did in the past. The family was over the moon, both for the car and for the fact there were still generous people out there like the winning bidder who gave them a part of their father whom they all miss dearly.
Once the story spread around and was picked by media outlets, it has been seen over 37 million times. This is what people have to say of the touching video.
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The winning bid for the car, which was $60,000, will go to charity. May God bless the bidder who did two kind deeds in a day. We need more people like him in the world. Take a look at the video below and don’t forget to share it with your friends.
I am sure there is no person who hasn’t felt embarrassed because of things they did in certain period of their life. Well, some of those things make us laugh too and we look back at them as an exciting part of our life experiences.
This viral video of a little boy who is potty-trained and makes everyone laugh will certainly be something he would be either proud or embarrassed of when he grows up.
But no matter the ‘consequences,’ we know this will bring a huge smile on the face of everyone who gets to see it. It shows this little boy will turn into a person with a vibrant personality ready to make everyone’s day.
We are so glad Matty’s parents decided to put this experience on tape. As his mom is recording, the child could be heard saying, “I didn’t poop, I peed.” And he just knows what he says is funny so he puts some extra effort and says it in a sassy voice.
His daddy found this so hilarious that he asked Matty once again if he pooped, to what the kid says, “No, I peed.” He then says it a couple of times more, each time with a sassier voice than before. The dad just couldn’t keep it together and burst out laughing.
The laughing was so hard that Matty’s dad even started crying. Matty was a bit surprised because he knew people only cry when they are sad so he got a bit worried for his daddy and asked, “Are you sad, daddy?”
But daddy was there to calm him down and tried to explain that people sometimes cry when they are very happy too. It looked like Matty understood that and felt relieved.
On top of that, he wanted to cheer his daddy even more by repeating the words again and again.
People loved Matty so much that the video of him was shared more than 800,000 times and had 283,000 likes. It made the day of around 27 million people in just three weeks and it speaks of how much everyone loved it.
We just hope that when he sees it in a couple of years time, Matty will love it as much as we did.
Why we are so “obsessed” with the story line of our favorite series “Little House on the Prairie” is probably because the Ingalls family stood for honestly, love, and true values. Something that we don’t see that often nowadays.
If you were a fan as well, you definitely remember the cutest little girl with enchanting green eyes, Cassandra Cooper Ingalls. She starred in seasons 7 and 8 after the Ingalls adopted her after her parents died in an accident.
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Cassandra was played by actress Melissa “Missy” Francis who now looks as beautiful as in her old days. What’s most, she’s very successful at what she does today.
Melissa’s career didn’t start with the series, but way earlier than that. At only six months old, she shot a commercial for a shampoo and everyone somehow knew she belonged in front of the camera.
However, it was the role of Cassandra who opened her the doors to Hollywood, which she later left in order to pursue a career in another industry.
Although she was very young back then, she clearly recalls her first encounter with the “Little House on the Prairie” producer, director and writer, Michael Landon.
”I didn’t know who he was, but you could tell by the energy in the room that he was an important person. He electrified the audition the moment he laughed at my wide eyes, framed by long ropes of brown braids.
“So, you’re Missy?” he boomed with a wide grin. Remember, I still had no idea exactly who he was, but suddenly that room felt like Christmas and that man was clearly Santa”, she wrote in her book ”Lessons from the Prairie”.
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In fact, Melissa says she owes a lot to Landon. He was the person who installed work ethics in her and the rest of the cast of the series, and as a result, all of them turned into decent human beings who succeeded a lot in their lives. She even says that it was Landon who taught her how to overcome difficulties and challenges, which later helped her cope with her mother whom she blamed for her sister’s death.
Melissa’s sister Tiffany died in 2002 after a long period of alcohol abuse.
Their complicated relationship with their mother who was always angry affected Tiffany a great deal. Melissa says Tiffany let their mother’s words touch her and that resulted in her turning to the alcohol.
”The “Little House” experience taught me, among other things, how to turn disaster into golden opportunity; that the good guys really do win in the end, even though they may not always lead at the turn; to identify and chase my passion without letting myself be distracted by fear; and to believe in miracles,” she says.
In 2012, she decided to end up the relationship with her mom and they haven’t spoken ever since.
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After taking part in several movies, Melissa quit from acting and earned a degree in economics from the Harvard University. However, as time passed by, she realized she missed being in front of the camera and took a job as a television reporter.
“My very first live shot, I looked like a deer in headlights. I just totally froze when the anchor tossed it to me … I had a rough time learning to be live on television and I almost think it was harder, because I was just so used to being so rehearsed,” she said.
Today, she hosts shows on the Fox Business Network and the Fox News Channel.
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Melissa is married to husband Wray Thorn with whom she has three children; sons Greyson and Thompson, and daughter Gemma.
During giving birth to her sons, Melissa nearly died each time and was diagnosed with a hereditary condition known as Factor V Leiden.
She and Tony wanted a third child but because doctors advised her not to get pregnant again they got sweet Gemma via surrogacy.
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We are so glad things turned great for this incredibly beautiful woman.
