Overwhelmed

I have been feeling overwhelmed lately. I started my classes last week. I am so lost in my chemistry class. All those equations and stuff like that. Plus finding the time to do my homework, studying and projects every week for both of my classes.
Andrew has been clinging to me like velcro lately and Madison and MJ have been sooooo cranky. Sometimes I want to run away or hide in a room and lock the door.
On top of finding time to study, take care of kids, the house and my business I now need to find time to exercise. Next week I am having a test done to see if I have diabetes. I am showing more than one sign of having it so I really need to get that done and in order to get rid of it I need to start exercising more and eating healthier. I need a micro manager. Yup, someone to plan my every step then I can check off the list of things I need to do. I would do it myself but just making the list is overwhelming. Great Andrew is awake from his 10 minute nap. Did I mention he hasn't taken a decent nap in over a week?

Food for Thought

So our new pastor, from Gateway Fellowship Church, wrote me an email and gave me this awesome link and in the link it was a passage from the bible:

Matthew 25:31-46 (New Living Translation)

The Final Judgment

³¹ “But when the Son of Man^a]">[a] comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit upon his glorious throne. ³² All the nations^b]">[b] will be gathered in his presence, and he will separate the people as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. ³³ He will place the sheep at his right hand and the goats at his left.

³⁴ “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home. ³⁶ I was naked, and you gave me clothing. I was sick, and you cared for me. I was in prison, and you visited me.’

³⁷ “Then these righteous ones will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry and feed you? Or thirsty and give you something to drink? ³⁸ Or a stranger and show you hospitality? Or naked and give you clothing? ³⁹ When did we ever see you sick or in prison and visit you?’

⁴⁰ “And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters,^c]">[c] you were doing it to me!’

⁴¹ “Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, ‘Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons.^d]">[d] ⁴² For I was hungry, and you didn’t feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn’t give me a drink. ⁴³ I was a stranger, and you didn’t invite me into your home. I was naked, and you didn’t give me clothing. I was sick and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

⁴⁴ “Then they will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?’

⁴⁵ “And he will answer, ‘I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.’

⁴⁶ “And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will go into eternal life.”

I hope this encourages people to help others, and maybe we don't know their situation but we can still give them something to eat or a bottle of water. Every human deserves to eat, to be warm, and to feel safe.

Seriously?

So I have been thinking a lot and praying a lot and it just came to me. I want to help out other people. Yesterday, Mike and I met for breakfast and he ordered an extra burrito and we couldn't just throw it away. So I decided to take it downtown to see if anyone wanted it. I had ran into some people who hadn't eaten in awhile, anyway I gave them the burrito and they were so thankful and the feeling I got was just amazing. I talked to Mike about it and everything and how amazing would it be if we could help out more people. Unfortunately with 4 kids, a mortgage, car payment, a dog, etc. our funds are limited. So anyway I posted an ad on craigslist telling people our story and how we wanted to help out the community and to see if anyone wanted to join in. The result so far? I get flamed.
Here is my original post:
"My husband and I and our kids recently decided to start helping out homeless individuals in San Antonio. This weekend and hopefully every weekend after we will be going downtown to hand out gift bags of food, toiletries, and hygiene products to those who need it. We truly believe that we were meant to help out the less fortunate and believe that this is the way God wants us to serve our community. We have been truly blessed with our kids, our friends, and our family. When we were having a tough time, we had people there for us and now we want to help out others. We are asking for donations of any kind. Here is a list of some of the things we are looking for
Bottled/can drinks or water
Hygiene products (trial/travel size please)
Tooth brush, hair brush
Toiletries
Food such as individual snack packs, fruit cups, cereal bars, apples, pears, oranges, etc. Please nothing that will spoil immediately or that needs to be refrigerated.
Anything else you can think of.

If you don’t want to make a donation, then please get out there yourself and help them. I know some people think they are bums and why don’t they just work. We don’t know everyone’s situation. They could of lost their jobs and with the way the economy is going maybe they can’t find one. I don’t really know, all I know is that my family and I want to help.
Thank you,
Renee

Here is the comment I got

"If you need free stuff there is a category for that. Now all these people are looking for a handout for their abused family memebers or the homeless? I work and so does my hubby, we don't make a lot and support our children and pets, and pay all our own bills without any assistance. If you have a computer to write this bs, sell it. Or if you had the time to go to the library and write it, go to fast food joints and apply. I am only stating what everyone else here is thinking. You need someone to tell you to get off your behinds and get a job. Noone give these scammers free stuff. Go to their home and see who they are first. I would bet they have more than some of us who work hard for what we own. good luck to all of you who hope people on here will help you remain lazy"

What are these people on? Am I only one who is confused from their response? I don't remember saying that I had abused family members or that I was homeless? If you want to comment on this please do!

Our Week in review

Last Sunday we went to Six Flags Fiesta Texas and went into their Wiggle World. Destiny got to meet Captain Feathersword and Henry the Octopus. It was a lot of fun and we will be going again this Sunday after church. Destiny also had field day at her school and won 2nd place in basketball throw and the 60 yard dash.




On Tuesday, Madison had her first day at preschool. She goes 3 days a week. Its a Mothers Day Out program through a church but it is preschool based. She loves her teacher and her new friends. Once she starts pre-k, MJ will be going to the MDO program as well to get a head start on school and so I can get a little more of a break! :P
Also, my classes start next week, I am taking an medical intro course and a chemistry class,which I am very nervous about.


On Wednesday, Andrew finally sat up by himself. He is also starting to get crawling down. He tried prunes this week for the first time and hated them, can't blame him. He is teething still and is starting to bite more and more, breastfeeding isn't going to last much longer. I can't believe how fast he is growing, pretty soon him and Mj will be the same size!








MJ is starting this new spiderman phase. He thinks he is spiderman. He will "shoot" webs out of his wrist and make a funny sound at the same time. It's really cute. He is getting big as well. He even said Andrew the other day and when you ask him a question he will nod his head.

Awful, not so awful weekend.

So what started out to be an awful weekend turned out to be a lot of fun. After a day of shopping and making homemade chicken noodle soup on Saturday, I sat at my laptop to check our bank account. I saw something strange, our account was dramatically low. I clicked on the list of purchases to see some details and I saw all of these strange purchases from Pizza Hut in the UK and other crazy places. A ton of money was stolen from our bank account. Come to find out someone stole a bunch of credit card numbers from USAA and was making random purchases on them. We had to cancel our cards and are waiting on new cards. We won't get our money back for a week or so, which is okay because our mortgage isn't due til the 1st so have some time.
Sunday was much better. We went to a different church and it was awesome. We are def. going back next week. They meet in a different movie theater and the pastor is really nice. The music was good and the message was great. After church we went to Cici's pizza, which is really good. They have a salad, soup,pasta,pizza, and dessert buffet for like $6.00. So after filling our tummies we took the 3 oldest kids for hair cuts, MJ no longer looks like a girl woohoo! Soon after we went to Costco to fill up on fruit and yogurt because we ran out and we can't survive without fruit and yogurt! On the way home Mike was like hey lets go to Sea World, they closed at 6pm and it was approaching 330. We then decided on going to Six Flags Fiesta Texas and bought a season pass. We rode the train and stopped by the new Wiggles World where the kids rode in the Big Red Car and rode some other rides.
What started out to be an awful weekend, turned into a not so awful weekend :)

College Bound

Mike and I have been talking a lot lately about our future career wise. I recently requested some info for online colleges and now my phone keeps ringing and its sooo annoying. So finally yesterday, I answered the phone and it was Kaplan University. After on the phone with them an hour I am in the process of getting enrolled into their Health Sciences program where I will be completing my Bachelors degree in about 3 1/2 years. I am so excited. At first I was thinking about nursing but sticking needles in other people just horrifies me so I asked the guy on the phone what other programs in the health field are offered. After reviewing all of them I decided that health sciences would be the best choice for me because I can do a lot of things with that kind of degree. Everything is strictly online so I don't have to leave the house and find a babysitter for the kids. I will be taking 2 classes at a time so I should be able to manage it along with my business and my family. If my mom can do it, anyone can. She used to attend college and work full time, take care of all of us plus still have time for a social life. She is one unique lady. Mike is thinking about completing his degree before getting out of the Army. I am really excited and hope everything goes right. If I am not accepted for financial aide, I may not get to attend so please pray for me and hope that I am eligible!