Josh and Becca Thrap and Family

To address your comment Angie, and to further explain my previous post I will now write about our reasons for adding extra security. I will not use any names at this time, and I will tell you right up front that our children know nothing of this and for now at least we’d like to keep it that way, so please don’t say anything to or around them. Thanks. I have always really liked the idea of having our blog out there for anyone to find because there are so many people that have passed in and out of our lives that I would like to think we could keep in touch with, and once again, I do hope this added security step will not keep away those of you who have been loyal readers and friends. But here it is. I received a call from my parents earlier this week. They didn’t want me to worry, but they thought that we should know that they had been receiving somewhat harrassing phone calls from a woman there in Muscatine who had seen my kids on the trolley in a parade and was convinvced that MY Jacob is her son. Apparently her sons had been taken away from her (assumably by the state? DHS?) and she has fixated on Jacob and thinks that he must surely be her son (despite all facts to the contrary–including the fact that her son would be a teenager right now)! Anyway, apparently these phone calls had been going on for a while and my parents didn’t want to worry us about it, but then last week this woman showed up at my parents house. My dad said that she appeared to be very drunk and wasn’t sure how she’d gotten there, but she talked with my dad and then my mom also for almost an hour and although she occassionally seemed to understand that the facts about her son did not match Jacob, she did not seem to believe that it meant that Jacob was not her son. So, for right now we are just trying to be better safe than sorry. We do have some information on this woman like her name and address, but I don’t know just how delusional or out of her own control she may be and so we’re just taking a few extra precautionary steps toward keeping Jacob, all of our children, and our family safe. So, thanks for your help and understanding with this matter.
Also, we are still in the process of trying to get all of our newly secured blog stuff back the way we had it so you may notice that the tv and movie quotes are missing, and I may not be able to post pictures for a bit, but we should have that all worked out fairly soon, so please just be patient with us as we pull ourselves back together. Thanks.