Joining the ranks of Sami and The Paper Mama, Running to Africa has taken to the internet to implore strangers for baby money:

We are weeks away from traveling to Ethiopia for Court, the first of two trips required for the adoption process.  In order to complete the final steps in bringing our daughter home, we need to raise $7,000 in a matter of days.

They are “asking each of you to give $10 and then to pass this on to 25 of your friends, asking the same thing”. In addition to money they “need a twin size bed for our daughter.  If you are able please consider donating a twin bed” because obviously they can’t be expected to procure basic items for the child they plan to adopt.

They claim “we don’t have any other choice” but if you knew you were going to pursue an international adoption wouldn’t you arrange your financial needs a little better? It’s not like you wake up on a Tuesday and think “I want to buy a kid from Ethiopia!” and then realize you need $7,000 bucks within a few days. Wouldn’t you know this was coming and plan accordingly?

I just don’t understand this trend of baby money begging on the internet at all, but it needs to end already.

Kelly Oxford, seriously does anyone have any idea what she does besides twitter, made a never-done-before joke about America at the conclusion of her special “excuse for skinny white lady to post bikini pics” vacation. Namely, that Americans are fat and spread trash around. Shortly after ending her trip home on what appears to be a private plane, Kelly instagrammed the above pic with the caption “These fat basturds just threw all their trash on the road. WELCOME TO AMERICA!”

Ya know, I think litterbugs suck as much as anyone else. But I don’t see the need to post their pictures without permission to my instagram and call them “fat basturds”. I get that her schtick is try-hard edginess and all, but wtf was the point of this?

Jill, uncrowned royalty from the house of Entitled, just wants to take her screaming, easily bored small children to a restaurant. I know, ugh, person with kids, why don’t they just go to McDonalds? Don’t worry – to make the experience easier for everyone, she has provided a handy dandy list for the service staff to follow while she is there!

The list includes totally reasonable requests like “Take my kids’ order fast” because apparently her kids get bored quickly, as well as an order to “Acknowledge my children”. She also advises waiters to “ Clean our table as we go” so forks don’t end up on the floor, and to always serve her children’s drinks with a lid.

But before you think she’s just another entitled mommy who thinks she is owed special treatment by the world, she reminds you (a couple of times) that’s she’s a SUPER GOOD tipper. She also waited tables for a few years, so she knows how easy it is to drop everything and laser focus on the needs of the throat clearing, arm waving mommy. So no excuses, people! Because god forbid a mother be treated like any other customer!

Chelsey Andrews, of the Paper Mama Andrews, had a horrible medical emergency giving birth in 2009. Because of that, she doesn’t want to risk another pregnancy; but she needs another baby. What to do? Why, do what everyone else does when they want another child –  ask the internet to pay for it, of course!

My husband and I have been wanting to start our journey to surrogacy for a while, but we recently learned our insurance will not cover this. We will have to cover 100% of the costs…

I know for a fact we will have another child. Whether it’s by surrogacy, or adoption, we will have a brother or sister for our kiddo. Both are a ton of money. Goodness. Sooooooo, that brings me to my Go Fund Me. It’s a site dedicated to raising money for people/situations/whatever. I set up a page to begin raising money for surrogacy.

Yes, Chelsey has created a GoFundMe page asking for $55,000 in order to pay for a surrogate to carry her second child. I mean, this is just what you do these days when you can’t afford to get another kid – ask the planet to pony up and fund the expansion of your family, right? Hooray internets!