I've been neglecting my blog and
I need to find time to sit down and write down the thoughts in my head. If only
there was a way to blog while I drive home from work. Maybe I should just start
talking out loud to a recorder in the car and then typing up what I'm thinking
when I get home. I jot down possible topics from time to time and I have
several that I really want to work on soon! I just thought I'd take a few
minutes to check in and let you all know how I'm doing and what is new.
Since my last post I have been working with several different groups to try to bring the women who are a part of the Hemophilia Community together. Through HemosUnite and Hemophilia Alliance of Orange County we have a dinner one night a month that is sponsored by one of the pharmaceutical companies, they send out one or two ladies who meet with us and provide some form of education and we chat for a few hours over a nice meal. I have been asked to be a part of the Women’s Leadership for The Hemophilia Foundation of Southern California. We had started meetings in Long Beach one Saturday a month where we provide education and support for the women in the community but the Director stepped down and the acting Director is making some changes so we are taking the Summer off. We will be receiving training from The National Hemophilia Foundation and expanding to other areas of Southern California. In the Fall we will be participating in the Hemophilia Walk with a Star Wars Theme. I have grown so much from my work with the women in this community and I am excited to see what will happen next.
I still have a lot of things that I'm working on, finances, keeping my home clean to my standards, being organized, taking care of our clothing so that I can present my family in a way that doesn't embarrass me and the biggest of all, being a positive person.
I am excited to start working with a Financial Adviser, I believe this will help Jon and me to work together instead of both doing our own things and we will continue to work toward the goals of credit repair and home ownership. We have a lot of medical collections debt that we are working to clear and with Jon only being back in the workforce for a month, we are behind on several items. I think we can quickly recover if we make the right choices but it's so easy to blow $5 for breakfast $10 for lunch and $30 for dinner and if we do that every day it adds up fast! Every time we start making enough money again, we get stupid and start spending and then all of a sudden there isn't enough money to pay for important things. We need to learn to keep spending the way we do when money is tight so that we can start saving money. I can't wait to prove to ourselves that we can do better.
I've started fresh with www.flylady.net and I'm doing the Baby Steps again this month. I can see the changes in my home already as well as in my attitude toward others who don't do things the way that I want them done. I always hear in my head her saying "housework done incorrectly still blesses your family" and I realize that I've only given myself that grace and not my family. The work they do, even if not what I consider correct, is still less that I have to do and a help to me.
I need to continue to figure out how to dress my family fashionably and take better care of our clothing and realize when it's time to get rid of an item and to set aside money for fresh items when needed. I think I'll have to go to Pinterest and work on that some more.
I have been listening to different podcasts, mostly by life coaches and while they do have some explicit language, their overall messages have helped me to find my footing and stand tall. My two favorite life coaches right now are http://www.thejoyjunkie.com/ and http://yourkickasslife.com/. I also LOVE listening to the http://hemosunite.com/ podcasts and getting a chance to know more about people in the community.
I know I need to work on my weight but for whatever reason, my heart just isn't in it right now. Probably because I'm just plain exhausted. I had a medical procedure done in June and my recovery has had a few hiccups. I'm hoping I won't need to have a more invasive procedure done but that is a possibility. I'm adding two young ladies to our home, friends from the kids' high school who have become a part of our family in so many ways. They are sisters. One has been with us for months while the other is still waiting for the system to place her with us, hopefully in the next week. I need to do a big purge and trade bedrooms to give the three girls in our home the Master bedroom so they can fit all of those beds in there.
As part of my progress toward being the person who I want to be, I'm trying to cook more at home and eat out less. I'm trying to choose healthier foods and get my family to eat these foods, but often they just pick the meat or bread and leave the veggies on the counter. While I want to learn to make some new foods, I don't want to waste money by preparing food that my family won't eat. Progress has been made here, but we have a long way to go.
I'm also working with a lady from the Hemophilia Community to achieve my personal goals. I meet alone for dinner with her once a month and we talk about plans I can put into action before the next meeting and how I've done since the last meeting. I was recently at a group dinner and realized that someone from each family there had taken the time to check on me or help me out in some way, one family even took my boys while I recovered from surgery and they went to the water park and then to their home for dinner, the next day they drove my oldest an hour and a half to camp and refused to take my gas money! Another family picked him up the next week.
I hardly recognize the weak, sad, lonely woman that I was just six months ago. I've realized that the more I reach out and give of myself to help others and be there for them, the more people are not only here for me, but I feel stronger and more confident because I'm taking action to help others and I am making a difference in their lives as well. When I reached out in my weakest moment and bared my soul, I was so humiliated. I couldn't believe that I had embarrassed myself by telling so many people how bad things were. Some people walked away and I understand their stance, but others stayed and lifted me up and now I'm able to lift others up and we are all a strong net of people who build each other up. It's the most amazing feeling, my heart is full and I am truly blessed.
Since my last post I have been working with several different groups to try to bring the women who are a part of the Hemophilia Community together. Through HemosUnite and Hemophilia Alliance of Orange County we have a dinner one night a month that is sponsored by one of the pharmaceutical companies, they send out one or two ladies who meet with us and provide some form of education and we chat for a few hours over a nice meal. I have been asked to be a part of the Women’s Leadership for The Hemophilia Foundation of Southern California. We had started meetings in Long Beach one Saturday a month where we provide education and support for the women in the community but the Director stepped down and the acting Director is making some changes so we are taking the Summer off. We will be receiving training from The National Hemophilia Foundation and expanding to other areas of Southern California. In the Fall we will be participating in the Hemophilia Walk with a Star Wars Theme. I have grown so much from my work with the women in this community and I am excited to see what will happen next.
I still have a lot of things that I'm working on, finances, keeping my home clean to my standards, being organized, taking care of our clothing so that I can present my family in a way that doesn't embarrass me and the biggest of all, being a positive person.
I am excited to start working with a Financial Adviser, I believe this will help Jon and me to work together instead of both doing our own things and we will continue to work toward the goals of credit repair and home ownership. We have a lot of medical collections debt that we are working to clear and with Jon only being back in the workforce for a month, we are behind on several items. I think we can quickly recover if we make the right choices but it's so easy to blow $5 for breakfast $10 for lunch and $30 for dinner and if we do that every day it adds up fast! Every time we start making enough money again, we get stupid and start spending and then all of a sudden there isn't enough money to pay for important things. We need to learn to keep spending the way we do when money is tight so that we can start saving money. I can't wait to prove to ourselves that we can do better.
I've started fresh with www.flylady.net and I'm doing the Baby Steps again this month. I can see the changes in my home already as well as in my attitude toward others who don't do things the way that I want them done. I always hear in my head her saying "housework done incorrectly still blesses your family" and I realize that I've only given myself that grace and not my family. The work they do, even if not what I consider correct, is still less that I have to do and a help to me.
I need to continue to figure out how to dress my family fashionably and take better care of our clothing and realize when it's time to get rid of an item and to set aside money for fresh items when needed. I think I'll have to go to Pinterest and work on that some more.
I have been listening to different podcasts, mostly by life coaches and while they do have some explicit language, their overall messages have helped me to find my footing and stand tall. My two favorite life coaches right now are http://www.thejoyjunkie.com/ and http://yourkickasslife.com/. I also LOVE listening to the http://hemosunite.com/ podcasts and getting a chance to know more about people in the community.
I know I need to work on my weight but for whatever reason, my heart just isn't in it right now. Probably because I'm just plain exhausted. I had a medical procedure done in June and my recovery has had a few hiccups. I'm hoping I won't need to have a more invasive procedure done but that is a possibility. I'm adding two young ladies to our home, friends from the kids' high school who have become a part of our family in so many ways. They are sisters. One has been with us for months while the other is still waiting for the system to place her with us, hopefully in the next week. I need to do a big purge and trade bedrooms to give the three girls in our home the Master bedroom so they can fit all of those beds in there.
As part of my progress toward being the person who I want to be, I'm trying to cook more at home and eat out less. I'm trying to choose healthier foods and get my family to eat these foods, but often they just pick the meat or bread and leave the veggies on the counter. While I want to learn to make some new foods, I don't want to waste money by preparing food that my family won't eat. Progress has been made here, but we have a long way to go.
I'm also working with a lady from the Hemophilia Community to achieve my personal goals. I meet alone for dinner with her once a month and we talk about plans I can put into action before the next meeting and how I've done since the last meeting. I was recently at a group dinner and realized that someone from each family there had taken the time to check on me or help me out in some way, one family even took my boys while I recovered from surgery and they went to the water park and then to their home for dinner, the next day they drove my oldest an hour and a half to camp and refused to take my gas money! Another family picked him up the next week.
I hardly recognize the weak, sad, lonely woman that I was just six months ago. I've realized that the more I reach out and give of myself to help others and be there for them, the more people are not only here for me, but I feel stronger and more confident because I'm taking action to help others and I am making a difference in their lives as well. When I reached out in my weakest moment and bared my soul, I was so humiliated. I couldn't believe that I had embarrassed myself by telling so many people how bad things were. Some people walked away and I understand their stance, but others stayed and lifted me up and now I'm able to lift others up and we are all a strong net of people who build each other up. It's the most amazing feeling, my heart is full and I am truly blessed.
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