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Mom Says Goodbye to Caylee Anthony

Wednesday, December 24, 2008
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Momlogic's Andrea: It doesn't seem possible. I watched. I waited. We all did. Maybe one of the sightings in Florida really was Caylee. Maybe, just maybe, Casey Anthony isn't lying and Caylee is in the care of her Nanny Zanni. It couldn't be that she's really gone. Not Caylee.

Caylee Anthony

But D.N.A. doesn't lie. Even if we can will our mind to ignore the obvious truths.

This story of Caylee Anthony, which I have been following closely for momlogic, has had an enormous impact on me. I have a daughter, the same age as Caylee. People often remark how much they look alike (but don't all little girls resemble each other -- all little kids for that matter?). They all love to play, to look at picture books, to mug for the camera. Caylee touched so many because she was "every toddler."

And now she's no longer with us

It took a while for it to sink in. The announcement was made last week, her little body identified. Yet, when I look over at my daughter happily clutching her doll -- the one so similar to the one Caylee holds in her car seat -- I want to believe she's still here. Still laughing, smiling and delighting her doting grandparents. The hardest thing to bear, in all the pictures of her we've seen on the endless news coverage, Caylee looks like a little girl loved. At least for a time.

Our instincts to protect children couldn't save Caylee. We can only watch the horrific story unfold and look into Casey Anthony's cold eyes and wonder.

It's now time to say goodbye to Caylee -- and to hold our own children tighter than ever.



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The media didn’t convict Casey !!! Casey did this to herself. She lied and got caught on video. even if she tryed to tell the truth .. what person would believe her. She should of confessed to an accident before they found Caylee. What a wicked web we weave .. when we practice to decieve. Goodbye sweet baby Caylee, We all love you very much. xoxoxoxo Macy
- macy
Posted 12/24/08 06:04 PM
 
Jim…we know she is innocent until proven guilty…I could be an objective juror as I want to know all the facts! But this doesn’t stop me from detesting Casey who by her own actions has sickened many of us with her lying. Baez told us from the start that when we found out the truth we would all have compassion for Casey {sorry don’t have any at the moment…I think he should be disbarred for his inappropriate touching of her!}
- Jill from Western Australia
Posted 12/25/08 12:37 AM
 
‘tis a hot Chrissy Day here in Western Australia, my daughter brought my only grandchild Luke {8 months} to visit. We hugged and cried for the memory of her stillborn Jake and prayed for the memory of Caylee who sadly should have been opening up presents…instead her remains await a second autopsy. Sri Jim..I begrudge Casey her Chrissy dinner..Caylee isn’t having any! By the way “Blessed is the meter-reader {Roy Kronk} who MUST inherit the reward” I know he will still be saddened by the loss of his wife to cancer but hope that he will be left alone by the media to enjoy his Christmas.
- Jill from Western Australia
Posted 12/25/08 12:53 AM
 
That presumption of innocence is for jurors, not for private citizens expressing emotion on a blog or discussion board. I cannot express how I resent this sanctimonious kind of scolding.
- Marcie
Posted 12/25/08 11:12 PM
 
Caylee is at rest, but we all know that this story has touched so many of us, those with children, and even those without. My daughter is the same age as Caylee was and every time I would hear about this story on the news, I would just hug her a little tighter and a little longer. May God Bless her and keep her in his loving arms forever.
- Vita
Posted 12/26/08 12:30 AM
 
Hi Jim, I think you must have meant “BY LAW, she is innocent until proven guilty” because if she killed her baby (and it’s hard to see how anyone would doubt that), she’s GUILTY, actually guilty, and she would be even if no one anywhere knew it—if she did it, she’s guilty. Period. But I do understand and appreciate giving someone that right, legally. And I generally am the first to give someone the benefit of the doubt. But, COME ON!
- jaybird
Posted 12/26/08 12:38 PM
 
Thankfully! This is the first blog I’ve read that alludes to the contradictory information: child is killed (likely by mom as we will see in a court of law), but on the other hand, ” in all the pictures of her we’ve seen on the endless news coverage, Caylee looks like a little girl loved”. That’s what I can’t get my head around.
- Kathy
Posted 12/26/08 01:38 PM
 
You can’t tell in pictures if a child is loved. A child from an abused home may laugh and smile in pictures. Sometimes children escape the horrors of their life by living in a fantasyland and dancing,singing, smiling and laughing. I have no doubt Caylee was loved by her grandparents and uncle. But Caylee was not loved by her mother. Casey is a sociopath and incapable of loving anyone but herself. Most likely Casey put on a show as a loving mother in front of cameras and other people. But we don’t know how Casey treated Caylee when they were alone. You can tell by the jailhouse tapes that Casey did not love Caylee. A mother who loves her missing child is shaking, sobbing, worrying about where she is, if she is getting enough to eat and sleep, if she is too cold, too hot, is she sick, is she hurt, is she crying for her mother? A loving mother of a missing child does not say,”Oh, what a waste. Why do I even bother talking to you people? All you want is Caylee back,” or “in my gut, I know she is safe and close.” A loving mother does not duct tape her child’s mouth shut, chloroform her and shove her in a garbage bag and throw her in the woods. Casey never loved Caylee. Strangers who never met Caylee love her more than her own mother.
- Sally
Posted 12/26/08 03:10 PM
 
THERE WAS THIS BEAUTIFUL LITTLE ANGEL NAMED CAYLEE MARIE ANTHONY THAT WE ALL LERNED TO LOVE VERY MUCH,SHE HAS SINCE MOVED ON UP TO HEAVEN WITH OUR GOD. CAYLEE WE ALL WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT YOU WHERE A PRECIOUS ANGEL HERE ON THIS EARTH NOW WE KNOW THAT YOU ARE HOME AND IN HEAVEN SO YOU’LL NEVER HAVE TO BE AFAID, LONELY OR CRY ANY MORE. YOUR THERE WITH ALL THE OTHER BEAUTIFUL ANGELS. YOU LEFT A VOID IN OUR HEARTS BE ALEAST WE NOW KNOW WHERE YOU ARE AND WE ALL ARE SO HAPPY FOR YOU. YOU’LL ALWAYS BE REMEMEBERED IN OUR HEARTS. YOUR GRANDPARENTS LOVE AND MISS YOU SO MUCH. CAYLEE IT HAD BEEN ALOT TIME FOR YOU BUT YOU HAVE BEEN FOUND AND NOW YOU CAN REST IN PEACE AND BE HAPPY. WE’RE ALL SO GLAD YOUR AT REST NOW. GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU NOW.I LOVE AND MISS YOU AND I’LL ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW YOU TOUCED MY HEART. YOUR SAFE NOW SO BE HAPPY NITA
- Juanita Bosmeny
Posted 12/27/08 07:42 PM
 
it’s really sad that this happened to Caylee, because I think Casey should have just let her parents raise her. They truly loved that little girl!
- Angie
Posted 12/30/08 06:59 AM
 
i believe casey did murder her daughter. she wanted to party and have fun. hated her mother so much this was a way to hurt her mom. this girl isn’t mental she is just a very spoiled brat who got her way and everything she ever wanted until her daughter came along . but for her parents to try and cover up for her is so wrong . a little girl died and who is caring about her except for the people who looked for her . the family sure didn’t help. they were to busy being on tv shows. my heart goes out to caylee that poor little girl
- ann
Posted 12/30/08 09:05 AM
 
I watched Nancy Grace (still continue to watch) as she counted the weeks of Caylee beening gone. I knew within that Caylee was dead. I could never physically have children, but God blessed me with an adopted child. I cut his umbilical cord. And it angers me so that a mother would take the life of her own child that she carried for 9 months. A person that was a part of her. However, Casey Anthony is a selfish, self-center, psychopath B**** and she DESERVES THE DEATH PENALTY! May the prosecutors put it back on the table! Poor child to have been stuck with a mother like that who care only about herself.
- LC
Posted 12/30/08 02:15 PM
 
Also, she doesn’t deserve to go to any funeral or services for Caylee. And I know that the rules say, “innocent until proven guilty.” However, those are nice words, but some people don’t think like that. It actuality, it is the other way around. To me she is guilty, they would have to have concrete evidence to place before me that would have to make me change my mind. Casey Anthony deserves the death penalty. Her family is much more involved and knows much more that the act that they have put on this whole time. They had already suspected at the very beginning that Caylee was dead. Then they had to follow through and go through the motions, wasting all that money just to put up a front. But they knew within that Casey had done something to Caylee and that she wasn’t coming back. I remember one of Casey’s jailhouse interviews. She said that Caylee was in a better place. That right there put the icing on the cake for me. I wanted to believe Caylee was alright, but I knew she was not and that she was no longer among the living. Also, the police dropped the ball a long time ago when they did not respond to the first call to that wooded area by the Anthony’s house. They would have had more to work with if they would have just followed through. God Bless you Caylee. May your soul rest in total peace now that you have been found.
- LC
Posted 12/30/08 02:24 PM
 
The little girl is dead and the press is making sure that the case gets thrown out because everyone knows she is guilty and cannot possibly get a fair trial anywhere. Her lawyers will use that defense,and mama will spend a few years tripped out on thorazine and when she gets out there will be no one there to put it in the papers because we will all have moved on to other little kids thrown away by children having children. This is a tragedy that there is no good answer to, nor will there ever be anything even close to justice. The “fry the mama” attitude and common opinion is exactly what will get her released after a few years of medication and a Doctor saying she is a psychopath . Still dead little Caylee will fade away with all of us shaking our heads saying thats a shame. Too bad no one will be there when mama walks out of that mental hospital she has so eloquently pushed herself into for taking the life of an innocent.
- Falcon
Posted 12/30/08 08:07 PM
 
i would give anything to know what casey did in that lawyer’s office for 6 hrs a day. sounds like he should be taken off her case . 2 times he had to be told no hugging or touching . both times he claimed he didn’t know the rules. and he is a lawyer ? hmmm something not right here . this whole case is so bizard . the anthony family is none other i ever heard. that money that was given for caylee should be taken away from this family. you can bet they mised used it with brother lee.i love my family but would never cover up for them in a crime . casey was right caylee is in a better place . away from a very selfish mother
- ann
Posted 12/31/08 10:41 AM
 
HANG THIS B*TCH FUN THE HIGHEST TREE AND LET THE WORLD WATCH!!!!
- HANG em HIGH
Posted 12/31/08 07:05 PM
 
Just remember that first month when tot mom was at the bar and shopping with stolen money, cooking the boyfriend dinner and renting movies. An innocent person would be looking frantically for their child not intertaining. Remember the lies, remember the smell in the car. Remember that Casey didn’t work so why the nanny that the parents never met in the 1 1/2 years she was taking care of Caylee (supposedly) Why didn’t Caylee know what grandpa was talking about when he asked her about the nanny? All points to Casey. No we are not the judge and jury. But it sickens us that a mother could be so brutal and without emotion. Casey’s judgement will come from the big guy upstairs so even if she gets off, I know she will still have to pay the price for murdering her daughter. Too many people are forgetting about her actions and the evidence building against her. She did it, I have no doubt.
- Terri
Posted 01/01/09 02:50 PM
 
Following this case, I always assumed that little Caylee was no longer with us. Still, there’s suspecting and then there’s knowing for sure. Seeing her wide eyes in the photos and video over the past few months, it’s impossible not to adore this little girl and feel as though we knew her! Though a predicted outcome, Caylee’s death is still an incredibly sad and poignant one. It is so awful and unfair! It is such a tragedy and you’re right, it does make us hold our own children a little more closely!
- Nancy
Posted 01/01/09 05:31 PM
 
This is just such a sad, sad saga. I remember one of the psychiatrists saying ‘Something terrible happened to Casey’….Cindy said that the only reason her daughter would lie would be to protect someone else. The entire family seems to have a secret. No one has said who the father of Caylee is…. Notice that the childs name is a combination of CAsey and LEE ~ the brother…. I wonder if we will ever find out the whole truth connected with the murder of that sweet little girl?
- Jeanie
Posted 01/02/09 07:58 AM
 
what happento that baby make me sad deep in my heart,she should given that baby to her mom,her mom is hurting so deep without her grandchild,it just break my heart.but caylee mom should get whats coming to her,infact i belive they should put her on death row,cause no one shouldnt take an other life an its really sick to give bith to a beautiful child an than get mad cause in her mind i belive that she think her party days are over than,my lord why would anyone do that to their child.she is a lier,you can look into her eyes an see that.
- kathy
Posted 01/04/09 02:21 PM

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