My Single Mom Life

The weather is perfect, maybe high 70's, perfect.
I've done some laundry, some dishes, did a little cleaning, worked on my cat burglar costume for Saturday nights party.
Yeah, I'm lame this year. I usually go all out as a dead person, (car crash victim, stabbing victim, zombie, dead teacher etc) but this year, I want/need to be as comfortable as possible.
I don't want to get home as late as I know we will be, and have to spend an hour peeling off face glue which held in dirt and gravel or pockets of fake blood that when pressed lightly, would ooze. I don't want to peel stuff out of my hair either.
Comfort is key this year, but next year, I am already planning it.
The boys will be spending the night with my sister and my nieces so I don't have to worry about them calling me every hour either just to "check up on me". It's cute but oh so annoying after the first 5-6 times.

Last night I posted about the predator search and that one really messed up guy with all those convictions. It baffles me that he is still out there somewhere, but I also posted his search results elsewhere and got some startling replies to predators in general.
It really surprised me.
Some people don't think that regular people should be able to tell others about a predator in their neighborhood.
The reasons they gave in some cases were valid, like a guy who is 18 and sleeps with his 16 year old girlfriend (in FLA, 16 is legal consent age but not in some other states) and then she gets mad at him and calls it rape. That guy is then forever, labeled an offender.
But in general, these people don't think that as a parent, I should have the right to warn other parents about predators. To not give them the database to search for them, or even go door to door when a new and dangerous one moves into the hood.
Sarasota county does not go door to door when predators move into your hood like they do elsewhere. That means, no cops come door to door with fliers alerting you to a new offender.
So then how will parents know if they don't know about the database?
Should we not have access to it?
One reason that was given was that ok, maybe the guy did make a mistake in his life and have sex with a child. That was one time, he's now an offender, but it doesn't mean he'll do it again.
Uh? Hello? He made a mistake and had sex with a child?!
I don't call fucking a little kid a mistake. I call it child molestation. I don't care if the guy did it once or 100 times, he still fucked a child. People should know that someone has done it before.
"He only did it once" they say. One time is one time too many for me.
I think people have a right to know that a) he did it, b) he lives here at such and such an address, and c) what if he wants to do it again?
The best way to ensure he doesn't do it again is to make people aware that we know, that we know where he lives, that we are watching him.
Knowing won't always stop them, but it has to help in some small way.

Last year, I went trick or treating with the boys for about an hour or so, as long as I could tolerate all the walking. About 2 streets back from us, there are 2 pedos living in the same house. Terms of their release say they can't be within so many miles of a school, they are warned about kid holidays like Halloween, no decorations, no handing out candy, keep your porch lights off so that kids don't even go to your door.
Last year, those 2 pedos had decorated, were sitting in their driveway with huge bowls of candy. Kids were going to them.
I started telling kids no and told them to just stay with me and my kids. I don't know where their parents were but obviously, not with them.
If I saw other parents walking with their kids, I warned them not to go there and why. People had no idea, no clue just how many pedos lived in our 8 block radius, never mind our whole zip code.
There are 67 pedos in our 8 block radius. Scary thought.
I told those parents about the FDLE site and to do a search every month or so. Just to be safe, just to know.
I also called the police and told them about that house. They went there and took both of those men in for violating the terms of their release. The cops came to my house after to tell me thanks, that I had done the right thing.
So this confused me when I had posted this and got the replies I did, that some people felt I was in the wrong warning other parents and kids.
There's also the guy who works at the Publix in the bakery, taking orders and making cakes for kids birthdays. Publix had no clue about his conviction for an act on a child under age 12. Either they had no clue or were covering their butts. They didn't fire him, they just moved him to the store room as a storage clerk.
Someone told me I was wrong to do that. That I invaded this guys life and might have cost him his job.
Ask me if I care. This man did something sexual to a kid under age 12 and I'm supposed to feel bad that he might have lost his job? No, I don't think so. I will not feel bad about it. If anything, he should feel bad for lying about his conviction and Publix should feel bad for not doing a more thorough background check, or, if in the case they were covering butts, never placed him in direct contact with kids. At the bakery, they hand out free cookies, I had seen this man handing cookies to kids all the time before I recognized his face on the FDLE.
Am I wrong to do what I do? To care enough about not just my kids, but other peoples kids as well, to tell people about a predator?
I don't fucking think so. Not today, not tomorrow, not fucking ever.