How we at Paparazzi would like to help...

Well, it is hard for me to post about how great the business is, or how much profit there is, or really anything tonight. Because for me, as Amanda, I am sick to my stomach. As we all know our nation was shocked again today. See, I am a mother of two small girls. Both have also been in school until now. My oldest Allie, is 5 and goes to Kinder. My youngest Jenny, is 4 and goes to, well she used to go to preschool when I worked a 70 hour a week career but now she spends her days with Mommy.

After dinner tonight, we sat down as a family and tried to as properly as we could to discuss what had happened. But honestly, I have no idea how to tell them the truth. See, I pride myself on being honest and transparent. How do I explain this to two small children??

So, I was thinking about all of the additional things that these families are going through. I would assume that most of them didn't have life insurance for their children. How do you tell other siblings? What kind of counseling they will need?

The thought that I had was the truth. At a time like this, being so close to Christmas, how many average American families have the money to send in a notable size donation to help heal the families, friends, school, town, and everyone else effected by this horrible event. But then I got an email sent to me from some of my Paparazzi Family. They all had the same idea.

As you know, Paparazzi items are all $5.00. So what if everyone sent in only $5.00 as a donation? Since nationally we have roughly 12,000 consultants that would be over $60,000 dollars! So that is what we did. Now most of you don't know that I signed up under the 5th highest person in the company. She is under the number 1 person. So we have spread this like wildfire!!

I would like to invite you to please donate. Being the mother of a child in elementary, I couldn't conceive this happening to our children. Please, understand that ALL of your money will be sent straight to the victims. The JEM Pro Paparazzi Family is committed to help relieve some of the burden by this tragic event. Please take a few moments of your time and donate just $5.00.

You can do so here : http://www.gofundme.com/1ougdg


If you are unable to spare the $5.00, please mail sympathy cards or letters of support and solidarity to the school, the school address is:                                                      Sandy Hook Elementary School
                                                               12 Dickenson Drive,
                                                            Sandy Hook, CT 06482

Sending a card is something small but at least it's something we all can do... Together with just $5.00 we can all make a difference!

I have attached the news article for what had happened by MSN.

By Pete Williams, Miguel Llanos and Tracy Connor, NBC News

Updated at 10:04 p.m. ET: A kindergarten teacher's son, clad in black and carrying two 9mm pistols, rampaged through a Connecticut elementary school Friday, killing 20 small children and six adults, a tragedy President Barack Obama said had broken the hearts of America.

The gunman, identified as Adam Lanza, 20, was found dead at the scene of the slaughter, Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, law enforcement officials said. The body of a woman believed to be his mother was found at their home in Newton, authorities said.

Officials initially misidentified the shooter to NBC News as Lanza's brother, Ryan. But a senior official later said that Ryan was nowhere near the shooting, is not believed to be involved, and is cooperating with the investigation.

Ryan told police that Adam has a history of mental illness, according to the senior official. Yet the motive for the mass killing – the nation’s second-worst school shooting -- was a mystery.

The weapons used in the attack were legally purchased and were registered to the gunman's mother, two law enforcement officials said. Two 9mm handguns were recovered inside the school. An AR-15-type rifle also was found at the scene, but there were conflicting reports Friday night whether it had been used in the shooting. 

Police believe Lanza fatally shot her in the face, then drove to the hilltop school where she worked and unleashed a blizzard of bullets on children and staff in two rooms before apparently taking his own life.

"Evil visited this community today," Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said Friday evening. "We are all in this together."

Some young survivors -- ages 5 to 10 -- described the terror of the shooting and a massive police response that included SWAT officers going room to room to search for victims as students huddled in classroom corners.

Robert Licata said his 6-year-old son was in class when the gunman burst in and shot the teacher.

"That's when my son grabbed a bunch of his friends and ran out the door," he told The Associated Press. "He was very brave."

One student told NBC Connecticut she was in the gym when she heard “seven loud booms.”

“The gym teachers told us to go in the corner, so we all huddled,” she said. "And I kept hearing these booming noises. And we all … started crying.

"All the gym teachers told us to go into the office where no one could find us," she added. "So then a police officer came in and told us to run outside. So we did and we came in the firehouse.”

The high death toll and the tender age of many victims sent shock waves all the way to the White House, where the flag was lowered to half-staff.

President Obama, his voice cracking at times, said he reacted to the tragedy first as a parent.

“Our hearts are broken today,'' he said. “The majority of those who died today were children. Beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old.”

Authorities in the small bedroom community 60 miles from New York City were alerted to the unfolding carnage by a 911 call around 9:30 a.m., and then reached out to state police and neighboring police departments for help.

Connecticut State Police Lt. Paul Vance said troopers fanned out across the school and searched “every door, every crack, every crevice” of the building.

Most of the bodies were found in two rooms in one section of the 600-student school, which goes up to the fourth grade.

Two children were taken to Danbury Hospital, but they died. A third person was being treated at the hospital, which went into lockdown mode and cleared trauma rooms as doctors waited for an influx of survivors that never came.

After police finished searching the school and determined there was only one gunman, they led the children outside, telling them to close their eyes, apparently to avoid seeing anything gruesome.

At a staging area ringed by police vehicles that raced to the school from across the state, the dazed and crying kids were reunited with worried loved ones.

Brenda Lebinski, mother of a third-grader, said she found a “horrendous” scene.

“Everyone was in hysterics -- parents, students. There were kids coming out of the school bloodied. I don't know if they were shot, but they were bloodied,'' she said, according to Reuters.

One parent picking up his 7-year-old son said the shooting was “the most terrifying moment a parent can imagine." He went on to describe the anguish of waiting to find out if his son was a victim and then running to his child when he saw him.

“It was the greatest relief in my existence,” the father said. “I’m just happy that my kid’s OK.”

The FBI was assisting with the widening investigation, and authorities said there were many unanswered questions, including the motive.

“There is a great deal of search warrant activity…in and out of the state,” Vance said, without giving specifics.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy was meeting with grieving families.

“As you can imagine, the governor is horrified by what’s happened,” said aide Roy Occhiogrosso.

The death toll is the highest from a school shooting since a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007. At Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, two teens killed 13 people and wounded 24 in 1999.

Parent Stephen Delgiadice, whose 8-year-old daughter was not hurt, said he never could have imagined such bloodshed in the quiet town of 27,000, where the police force has only three detectives.

"It's alarming, especially in Newtown, Connecticut, which we always thought was the safest place in America," he told The Associated Press.

Obama said Friday’s shooting, following the massacre at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., and other murder sprees, showed the need for “meaningful action…regardless of the politics” to prevent more blood from being spilled.

New York City Mayor Bloomberg, who has been pushing for tougher gun laws, called for Washington to act immediately.

“Not even kindergarteners learning their A, B, Cs are safe,” he said. “We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to talk about gun laws. We heard it after Virginia Tech. After Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek. And now we are hearing it again.”