I am going to a new blog topic on a new blog. i am going to talk about my new book! And I am going to get it done this year and finish something thats been on my heart to do for 3 years.
I am also going to hub pages to generate some traffic and so we will see what that brings.
Monday, September 3, 2012
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
THANK GOD IT IS 2009
I WON! I beat 2008!! 2008 is no longer here and I AM! I beat it, I WON! HA!
Ok now that I feel a little better I will explain: We had a rough year. Rough. There are things that happened that were very bad that I never wrote about on here because I didn't want to dwell on the negative, only the positive and being thankful for what good did happen and how that I TRULY feel grateful that things are not worse than what they could have been. I look back to my first post before anything really happened and my thoughts were to be thankful for everything, well, I think that was God's way of preparing me for the rough year to come. If I would have not thought to be conscienciously thankful then I would have wollowed in self pity and not looked at the bright side and fallen into depression. We are on the other side of many of the challenges, beginning others, but still here. We have faced difficult things and yet we are still together, our family is still together. That in itself is a blessing to be thankful for. But there's MORE, I have a husband who still loves me in spite of the things I do. We had a great Christmas despite what the checkbook said. We were able to stock our pantry and freezer and fridge with food. The kids got things they wanted for Christmas. We spent time with family and still love eachother. I got a new job, Ramon got a new job with a base pay plus salary! Daniel is doing great in school and with Basketball. Josiah is growing more responsible, Zoe is excelling in school, Ezra is becoming his own person, Gabriel is potty training. Ramon started his 2009 goals before 2009. I got a new neice. My parents are still awesome. I love my brother and his wife and children. I have an incredible church with Pastors who care about me. I have good friends who care. If I'm not thankful for all of that then I lost sight of what my life is all about. I could have just given up but I didn't. I'm thankful that I got through it with my thankfulness in tact. I'm thankful that God was with me through it all, and showed Himself to me in ways that I KNEW He was there. Next post, All the answered prayers!
Ok now that I feel a little better I will explain: We had a rough year. Rough. There are things that happened that were very bad that I never wrote about on here because I didn't want to dwell on the negative, only the positive and being thankful for what good did happen and how that I TRULY feel grateful that things are not worse than what they could have been. I look back to my first post before anything really happened and my thoughts were to be thankful for everything, well, I think that was God's way of preparing me for the rough year to come. If I would have not thought to be conscienciously thankful then I would have wollowed in self pity and not looked at the bright side and fallen into depression. We are on the other side of many of the challenges, beginning others, but still here. We have faced difficult things and yet we are still together, our family is still together. That in itself is a blessing to be thankful for. But there's MORE, I have a husband who still loves me in spite of the things I do. We had a great Christmas despite what the checkbook said. We were able to stock our pantry and freezer and fridge with food. The kids got things they wanted for Christmas. We spent time with family and still love eachother. I got a new job, Ramon got a new job with a base pay plus salary! Daniel is doing great in school and with Basketball. Josiah is growing more responsible, Zoe is excelling in school, Ezra is becoming his own person, Gabriel is potty training. Ramon started his 2009 goals before 2009. I got a new neice. My parents are still awesome. I love my brother and his wife and children. I have an incredible church with Pastors who care about me. I have good friends who care. If I'm not thankful for all of that then I lost sight of what my life is all about. I could have just given up but I didn't. I'm thankful that I got through it with my thankfulness in tact. I'm thankful that God was with me through it all, and showed Himself to me in ways that I KNEW He was there. Next post, All the answered prayers!
Friday, November 21, 2008
36 cents
I am thankful for my husband's pay this week of 36 cents. I am thankful that the company spent more money in time for their payroll people to put this into our account. I am thinkful that it is not 0.00. I am thankful that it won't be this low again. I'm thankful that we can only go higher from here. I am thankful because You are in control, God, and You know how this can be used for Your glory. Somehow.
Miracle Money is needed now.
Recompence of reward.
Money come now!!!
Discouragement, GO!
I will always serve the Lord no matter what.
Miracle Money is needed now.
Recompence of reward.
Money come now!!!
Discouragement, GO!
I will always serve the Lord no matter what.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Where do I begin?
OK so A LOT has happened since the last entry......you probably thought I was forgetting about this great way to communicate....well I didn't, here I am! We have moved, we live in a very nice place albeit temporarily. We have a month to month lease so if they want us out (the house is for sale) we will have 30 day notice, but on the other hand if we find something better the we can do the same. It was a big blessing to move when we did, we had help and any other weekend would not have worked due to school starting and all. So that is a load off the shoulders now we just have to pray for rent each month and maybe for a more permanent situation.
Daniel- We decided to put him into a private school due to his new diagnosis in the AS (Autism Spectrum) and he is doing so much better! Grades are not great BUT when the kid comes home happy and talkative, WOW that is so much better than last year when he was sullen and had a "bite-your-head-off" attitude. The teachers are wonderful and I already told them that I was their biggest fan, because they are a blessing for our family to help Daniel how they have. And they really haven't done anything different than what they would normally do, they teach for the Lord and it shows. I have learned more about ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders) than I ever wanted to know, I have met some fabulous people that I never would have met and I have a new respect for people who have been in this (having a child on the AS) for a longer time than me. I found out some things about Aspergers and how to help them, it's a long list but I will be brief....one thing that Daniel cannot do is read facial/non verbal expression. People, that's 80% of all communication! He can't read when someone is giving him a happy or suprised look, you have to tell him what you are thinking and feeling for him to then relate that to the look on your face. He is very concrete, you cannot use sarcasm or idioms like "it's raining cats and dogs" he doesn't get it. Now, he has learned through repetition that some things are just "sayings" and not true facts, but that's what's so neat, is that his brain has ALREADY figured out some things even without all the intervention techniques. God has done the work. He still needs help though. Creative Writing and Language (let's try teaching the English rule "i before e except after c" because it is not always true!) are very hard for him, his brain works over time on those concepts so he gets frustrated easier. The teachers have been great to him and limited the homework in that area so he DOES do some work in that it's just not 7 pages (it would take him 3 hours). He has the meltdowns where he reacts to change in an immature for his age way. He will cry if he doesn't get his way, he will yell. We are learning how to deal with this. He likes things to be the way you say or else he doesn't seem to cope well (when we go to the store and I say I will only get 3 things...yeah, you get the picture). He is also very inappropriate with his physical touches. He will get too close, he will touch people in an inappropriate way, not because he wants to make people feel uncomfortable but sometimes he does, he is very akward in social situations. But let me tell you what this great state of West Virginia has to offer those with an ASD.........oh you will not believe it, there is a place called the Autism Training Center and it is based in Marshall University (in Huntington, WV). They will actually come to your house and evaluate the person and then offer interventions and PBS (Positive Behavior Support) and then have meetings with teachers and parents and grandparents and the PTO president if they want to come! They have books, DVD's, CD's all at a lending library and they will send it to you and you send it back in the envelope they send you (no postage for you to deal with!), they have ID cards that they will make and laminate so a child can keep it in his pocket in case they need help, they have support groups, parenting groups, classes, make and takes (I made Daniel a daily schedule to follow and laminated it!), articles, someone who would come with you to meet with teachers, and EVERYTHING IS FREE! Yes, you heard right, it is AWESOME! If any other state has this in place, I guarantee it would still be at the top in the country. I am totally amazed. I have already registered, got my membership card and will have to wait a while for a specialist to come available in my area (a year?) but they said they want to eliminate the wait period for personal PBS and are hiring more people but everything else I mentioned is all available to me now. I am so thrilled to have this available. I want to thank the person responsible but how do you? How do you tell someone that they turned a very shaken wandering person into someone with knowledge and tools to charge on ahead? I am in awe. Can you tell?
So that's what we are doing learning all we can and little by little coming up with ways to teach Daniel how to behave in a mature manner and overcome what he hasn't already.
Another thing to be thankful for is that Josiah, Zoe and Ezra are all at the same school. It was nice because Ezra could have gone to preschool in several other schools but there was an opening at the school I wanted him to go to! They are still in public school but we are praying that we can make enough money to send them all to the private school Daniel goes to. If you have 3 kids there, you get the 4th one free! Works for me! It's still a pretty penny but from what I've seen in Daniel, so worth it. For now, they are doing fine where they are, all good reports from the teachers. Josiah's teacher said that he is talking more where before if he said 4 words to her it was a banner day. Zoe's teacher keeps telling me how she goes over and above the call of duty either with the project she has or when she is done goes to help others. Ezra is having a good time, has made some friends, likes writing and doing "homework" with his brothers and sister.
Gabriel is home with me most days, and what a joy and sweetie he is! I am no longer babysitting, I am doing work with All Squared Away an organizing company. I work when the kids are in school or when Ramon can be home evenings and weekends. Gabriel gets to go to Aunt Mesa's! We love her! She had a baby 2 months ago! Victoria McKay O'Connor 9/7/08! I am a proud Aunt! She is so beautiful and growing like crazy! (It's all that mommy milk!) I am so thankful I got to be there when she took her first breath and share the moment with Mesa and Ben, she is my best friend and pretty much my sister and my brother is the coolest bro in the world.
Ramon is doing well, we are so blessed to have a faithful man as daddy and husband to this family. Someone hit him in his Jeep last month and totalled it and he was able to get a replacement car with the insurance AND he was not seriously injured! WOW! He is losing weight and running and getting into great shape. He ran his first
5K race too only weeks after the accident (see? he was in shape!) and he didn't come in last! Woo hoo! I am so proud of him! We are praying for God's continued provision for all our needs.
Well, this seem so long, so I will close for now but more to come!
Daniel- We decided to put him into a private school due to his new diagnosis in the AS (Autism Spectrum) and he is doing so much better! Grades are not great BUT when the kid comes home happy and talkative, WOW that is so much better than last year when he was sullen and had a "bite-your-head-off" attitude. The teachers are wonderful and I already told them that I was their biggest fan, because they are a blessing for our family to help Daniel how they have. And they really haven't done anything different than what they would normally do, they teach for the Lord and it shows. I have learned more about ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders) than I ever wanted to know, I have met some fabulous people that I never would have met and I have a new respect for people who have been in this (having a child on the AS) for a longer time than me. I found out some things about Aspergers and how to help them, it's a long list but I will be brief....one thing that Daniel cannot do is read facial/non verbal expression. People, that's 80% of all communication! He can't read when someone is giving him a happy or suprised look, you have to tell him what you are thinking and feeling for him to then relate that to the look on your face. He is very concrete, you cannot use sarcasm or idioms like "it's raining cats and dogs" he doesn't get it. Now, he has learned through repetition that some things are just "sayings" and not true facts, but that's what's so neat, is that his brain has ALREADY figured out some things even without all the intervention techniques. God has done the work. He still needs help though. Creative Writing and Language (let's try teaching the English rule "i before e except after c" because it is not always true!) are very hard for him, his brain works over time on those concepts so he gets frustrated easier. The teachers have been great to him and limited the homework in that area so he DOES do some work in that it's just not 7 pages (it would take him 3 hours). He has the meltdowns where he reacts to change in an immature for his age way. He will cry if he doesn't get his way, he will yell. We are learning how to deal with this. He likes things to be the way you say or else he doesn't seem to cope well (when we go to the store and I say I will only get 3 things...yeah, you get the picture). He is also very inappropriate with his physical touches. He will get too close, he will touch people in an inappropriate way, not because he wants to make people feel uncomfortable but sometimes he does, he is very akward in social situations. But let me tell you what this great state of West Virginia has to offer those with an ASD.........oh you will not believe it, there is a place called the Autism Training Center and it is based in Marshall University (in Huntington, WV). They will actually come to your house and evaluate the person and then offer interventions and PBS (Positive Behavior Support) and then have meetings with teachers and parents and grandparents and the PTO president if they want to come! They have books, DVD's, CD's all at a lending library and they will send it to you and you send it back in the envelope they send you (no postage for you to deal with!), they have ID cards that they will make and laminate so a child can keep it in his pocket in case they need help, they have support groups, parenting groups, classes, make and takes (I made Daniel a daily schedule to follow and laminated it!), articles, someone who would come with you to meet with teachers, and EVERYTHING IS FREE! Yes, you heard right, it is AWESOME! If any other state has this in place, I guarantee it would still be at the top in the country. I am totally amazed. I have already registered, got my membership card and will have to wait a while for a specialist to come available in my area (a year?) but they said they want to eliminate the wait period for personal PBS and are hiring more people but everything else I mentioned is all available to me now. I am so thrilled to have this available. I want to thank the person responsible but how do you? How do you tell someone that they turned a very shaken wandering person into someone with knowledge and tools to charge on ahead? I am in awe. Can you tell?
So that's what we are doing learning all we can and little by little coming up with ways to teach Daniel how to behave in a mature manner and overcome what he hasn't already.
Another thing to be thankful for is that Josiah, Zoe and Ezra are all at the same school. It was nice because Ezra could have gone to preschool in several other schools but there was an opening at the school I wanted him to go to! They are still in public school but we are praying that we can make enough money to send them all to the private school Daniel goes to. If you have 3 kids there, you get the 4th one free! Works for me! It's still a pretty penny but from what I've seen in Daniel, so worth it. For now, they are doing fine where they are, all good reports from the teachers. Josiah's teacher said that he is talking more where before if he said 4 words to her it was a banner day. Zoe's teacher keeps telling me how she goes over and above the call of duty either with the project she has or when she is done goes to help others. Ezra is having a good time, has made some friends, likes writing and doing "homework" with his brothers and sister.
Gabriel is home with me most days, and what a joy and sweetie he is! I am no longer babysitting, I am doing work with All Squared Away an organizing company. I work when the kids are in school or when Ramon can be home evenings and weekends. Gabriel gets to go to Aunt Mesa's! We love her! She had a baby 2 months ago! Victoria McKay O'Connor 9/7/08! I am a proud Aunt! She is so beautiful and growing like crazy! (It's all that mommy milk!) I am so thankful I got to be there when she took her first breath and share the moment with Mesa and Ben, she is my best friend and pretty much my sister and my brother is the coolest bro in the world.
Ramon is doing well, we are so blessed to have a faithful man as daddy and husband to this family. Someone hit him in his Jeep last month and totalled it and he was able to get a replacement car with the insurance AND he was not seriously injured! WOW! He is losing weight and running and getting into great shape. He ran his first
5K race too only weeks after the accident (see? he was in shape!) and he didn't come in last! Woo hoo! I am so proud of him! We are praying for God's continued provision for all our needs.
Well, this seem so long, so I will close for now but more to come!
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
my baby girl is so tough..........
How tough is she??
Well, she plays flag football on a team with her older brother, she is the only girl on the team AND only one of 2 girls in the 6-team league, not only that, but at the last game she smashed into one of the boys on the other team and got a bloody nose!
yes! She cried a little and was sent out of the game only to get wiped up and then want to go in the game again and not miss any playing time! Then it started bleeding again, I wiped it but she was in a hurry and I didn't get it all and they said she couldn't play with blood on her face! Is that not a statement some tough-guy would get? But it was for my little Zoe! She plays so hard and she is in it to win it every game and practice. The team is currently 2-0 too with only one other undefeated team, go us! I'm so glad she is like this now, it will serve her well all her life so that she doesn't give up even when life gives her a bloody nose.
I can learn a thing or two from her, life has given us a few bloody noses as of late but I am not giving up. I know that somehow, someway, we will be able to look back and see that even though we had a million things come against us at once, we got through it and the Lord was the One behind the scenes working things out for our good.
A few things have happened that I am not sure about, one thing is that Daniel has been seeing a counselor for issues and problems that I won't go into here, but she (the counselor) suggested that Daniel be tested for things and it turns out that he has Asperger's with ADHD. This is a big blow and an AH HA! moment all at the same time. I never dreamed he would have anything like this and now as I look back I can see the signs. We are in the process now deciding what school is best or if homeschool is best or what. [and another bloody nose we have gotten is that the rental house that we had wanted fell through so now we don't know where we will be going or where the kids will start school and school starts in 1 week!]
So right now, this moment, I am pretty stressed. And in my stress, I am thinking of Zoe's bloody nose and how she didn't give up, still wanted to play and still played hard even though I know her nose was throbbing like crazy. I am gonna keep going. I am praying and asking God where we should go, scouring the paper, asking around, asking for help, praying for the money so that we can rent with a deposit and everything needed to move. I am also keeping my chin up. What else can I do? The Lord has to do the rest. He is still in control. He still loves me. I still love Him. He has always directed me and I know I felt a peace about where we were to live after this house so why am I so stressed? it's just me. I need to rely on God, work through the pain and be ready when we do find that perfect house and have the money in hand.
Back to packing and planning........bloody nose and all.
Well, she plays flag football on a team with her older brother, she is the only girl on the team AND only one of 2 girls in the 6-team league, not only that, but at the last game she smashed into one of the boys on the other team and got a bloody nose!
yes! She cried a little and was sent out of the game only to get wiped up and then want to go in the game again and not miss any playing time! Then it started bleeding again, I wiped it but she was in a hurry and I didn't get it all and they said she couldn't play with blood on her face! Is that not a statement some tough-guy would get? But it was for my little Zoe! She plays so hard and she is in it to win it every game and practice. The team is currently 2-0 too with only one other undefeated team, go us! I'm so glad she is like this now, it will serve her well all her life so that she doesn't give up even when life gives her a bloody nose.
I can learn a thing or two from her, life has given us a few bloody noses as of late but I am not giving up. I know that somehow, someway, we will be able to look back and see that even though we had a million things come against us at once, we got through it and the Lord was the One behind the scenes working things out for our good.
A few things have happened that I am not sure about, one thing is that Daniel has been seeing a counselor for issues and problems that I won't go into here, but she (the counselor) suggested that Daniel be tested for things and it turns out that he has Asperger's with ADHD. This is a big blow and an AH HA! moment all at the same time. I never dreamed he would have anything like this and now as I look back I can see the signs. We are in the process now deciding what school is best or if homeschool is best or what. [and another bloody nose we have gotten is that the rental house that we had wanted fell through so now we don't know where we will be going or where the kids will start school and school starts in 1 week!]
So right now, this moment, I am pretty stressed. And in my stress, I am thinking of Zoe's bloody nose and how she didn't give up, still wanted to play and still played hard even though I know her nose was throbbing like crazy. I am gonna keep going. I am praying and asking God where we should go, scouring the paper, asking around, asking for help, praying for the money so that we can rent with a deposit and everything needed to move. I am also keeping my chin up. What else can I do? The Lord has to do the rest. He is still in control. He still loves me. I still love Him. He has always directed me and I know I felt a peace about where we were to live after this house so why am I so stressed? it's just me. I need to rely on God, work through the pain and be ready when we do find that perfect house and have the money in hand.
Back to packing and planning........bloody nose and all.
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