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This may possibly be the longest post I have written. We have had a very interesting weekend. Addison is still coughing and vomiting. She has vomited 6 times in the last 3 days. We had a great time at the March of Dimes walk Saturday morning. Addison's stroller won a plaque for the best decorated stroller or wagon. I will post pictures soon. The dance benefit was Saturday night. It was great to see everyone. We fried fish, sold t shirts, raffle tickets and sang karaoke. Addison did vomit during the dance but she enjoyed dancing and picking out songs to play on the jukebox. Thank you so much to everyone that helped, donated and came.
 I want to truly apologize to everyone that was in contact with Michelle McCrory Robinson. Me and Michelle were friends in 8th and 9th grade but she dropped out of school and we lost touch. Courtney Walker offered to help me with the yard sale event and created an event page on facebook. Michelle contacted her and told her we were best friends and Michelle offered to help. When the write ups were written for the press, she told Lauren Braden the same thing so she could get her name listed as a contact. We had people offer to store donations at their houses but Michelle insisted on renting storage units. She was accepting donations and advertising to contact her. I was bringing loads of donations to the units on my weekly visits to Ocean Springs. I did get a strange feeling about things that were happening. She told me she was making jars to put out at stores and I immediately told her no. It did not sound like a good idea because employees can take the money and I did not trust her to pick them up either. She would call and ask me how much I wanted for items and say she would pay me for them at the yard sale that she had everything wrote down, that she is extremely organized. She told me she had spent over $700 on gas driving back and forth to the storage unit. She asked me for a free Addie t shirt because she was wearing hers everyday and needed an extra one so she didn't have to wash it every night. She delivered a t shirt for me and I told her to use the $20 to get flyers made. The day before the yard sale we were sorting and still receiving donations. She was taking items as soon as they were being dropped off. She didn't want to even go pick up her son from school and was trying to send Mary to go pick him up. The day of the sale her husband pulls out a grill and tells my husband, look at my new grill I just got. Tre responds, I know you just got it because I brought it over. Troy responded oh yeah we are going to pay you for it. Michelle pulls out chairs to sit in that were me and Tre's old lawn chairs. I could go on and on listing items but I do not want to upset the people that donated them. We were never paid for the items she took. She did write me a check for the china cabinet and the grill, because there was no way for her to get out of those items. She insisted on sitting at the money table the entire sale. We had caught on to her by then and had already spoken days before the sale for her not to be left alone by the money. She even made a comment to me about how she felt like she was being watched. The day of the sale I was told there was a jug with Addison's picture on it and I told Michelle again I do not want jars out. She said okay and I never heard anything else about them. She never even mentioned getting me the money that had already been collected. Tre' had to deliver the china cabinet she bought and said her garage was slap full of stuff we had brought over and no telling what else she had inside.
When the dance benefit was planned she contacted the host and asked to be added to the event as a co host. My mother had to call and get Michelle's name off the event page. She created a flyer to drop off at businesses with an email address she made for people to contact her for donations. If anyone knows the email address, please let me know. She ordered more t shirts from me and said she would get the money from people when she delivered the shirts and then pay me because she was short from spending so much money on the yard sale. She told me I shorted her 2 shirts. I know I didn't, I counted the shirts 3 times because I knew something wasn't right. She would say she was dropping off all the money and raffle tickets on a certain day and then not contact me. She was deleting post me and my mom made on her facebook page asking about collecting everything. She was even picking up yard sale donations weeks after the sale was over saying she was going to give it to another friend that was having a yard sale benefit too. I contacted her to pick up the raffle tickets and t shirt money and she told me to call her when I turned into her neighborhood and she would put them outside. As I was picking them up, she tapped on the window and waved to me. I was thinking that is so weird. She doesn't want me to go inside her house, must be because she stole so much from the yard sale. She then texted me to hold her checks until she told me I could cash them. She collected cash for the t shirts and raffle tickets from people and wrote me checks I could not cash. As we are driving home from her house I get a phone call there is a jar with Addison's picture on it at a convient store. We immediately turned around to check. The store owner was in complete shock. He said him and his wife thought it was weird and even questioned if the story was real. He said he was taking customers change and putting it in the jar constantly. Michelle was checking the jar every 2 days or so. He said he would be a witness and was sure he has her on video collecting the money. Michelle even told him to protect the jar because her husband had recently left her. The store owner said she made tons of money. We left the store and filed a report with the police department. It takes a few days for the report to get posted and we will be able to press charges on Wednesday. Tre' called Michelle when we left the police department and Michelle hung up on him. She called me and said she was going to surprise me with the donations. She had a big Bama jug she was filling up for us. I asked why she took people's cash and gave me bad checks, she continued to swear she was not stealing. Here is the thing, if she wasn't, why didn't she show up at my mom's with the Bama jug? I counted the raffle tickets and she shorted me $50 for what she turned in. There is no telling who bought tickets that she didn't give to me. She told me she had given 4 books out and had not collected them from the people yet. She did not return any unsold tickets to me either, so I am sure she sold them and kept the money. I told her I was calling every person on the tickets and I felt bad for her mom because I am sure she would be embarrassed for her co workers to know Michelle stole their money. I asked about where was the money for the shirts she didn't pay for and she told me she would pay me next week. I suggested people pay me through the paypal link and she said no she was buying them as a gift. She must have already collected their money and didn't want me to know. She texted me Saturday morning and said she borrowed money from her mom so I could cash the checks, which I did. But she still has not mentioned giving me the Bama jug. Since I have alerted people I have received several messages and heard all kinds of stories of what she was up to. Apparently she either kept for herself or she pawned the yard sale items she stole. I cannot see any other reason she would leave me the tickets on her porch and not open her door. The only reason I was in contact with her for so long was I wanted the money she owed us. She plays the role she worked so hard, which she did but not for us, she was working for herself. She fooled everyone into thinking we are best friends. We are so hurt and shocked that she has done such a horrible thing to our family. Can you imagine walking into a store and seeing a picture of your sick child on a donation jar? Please help us spread the word and if anyone donated for the raffle or silent acution, we need to know. We may have not received the donation. Again I apologize to each and every one of you that were in contact with her. Please contact us if you see anything with Addison's name or picture on it or if you have any other information we may need to know. Or if you see anything with Evan's name on it. Evan is the little boy the yard sale was for too. When I think of everything we have been through and we were embarassed to ask for help to begin with, I am just devistated.
As always please continue to pray for Addison's health. I am bringing her to the pediatrician in the morning about all this coughing and vomiting. She will have therapy on Tuesday and see the allergist on Thursday. Tomorrow we will also deliver Addie t shirts to a group of Southeastern nursing students.