Our daughter was listening during our service announcement a week ago and they mentioned Africa. Kk asked 'Mom, what are they saying about Africa?' I told her that our church has missionaries there helping people. She got a very serious look on her face and said 'mom can I help them?' I asked her what was her plan. She said 'mom I make $5 with my allowance and I was wondering If can do some extra things to make more money to send to that family in Africa.' I told her that it was very kind of her to want to help others. We told her that we can find out how we can get that money to the family. I am so blessed to have a daughter with such a giving heart. She did not hesitate in wanting to help and give her money to someone in need. She did not care that it was just $5; she wanted to give all of what she had. We are so blessed that our daughter has such a loving, kind, and giving heart. I pray the Lord continues to bless her.
Sometimes we think that our little won't make a difference, but what matters is your heart. You can give a lot and if your heart is not giving willingly you are doing it for others to see and you are already getting your reward from man. But when you do it from the heart, God honors it because He sees our heart and our intention.

Update,Autisum diagnosis, long!

Hi y'all! It has been such a long time since I updated. This specific update will be about Kk. Kk was diagnosed with moderate Autism 11/8/12. Wow! Totally unexpected right? Here is some back ground. Last year in August Kk started public school. She had so much trouble adjusting it was crazy. Soon we started getting notes from her teacher about how worried she was that Kk was not adjusting well. She began to notice how Kk did not play with other children properly,Kk's anxiety, running out of the room with her ears covered,not being in engaging, issues demonstrating proper reactions to others feelings,hiding in the bathroom,crawling, playing with soap,screaming,imaginary play. Just to name a few. So it got to the point where it was the middle of the school year and she barely made progress. Kk started to degress big time. She started having potty accidents,nightmares,anxiety, panic attacks, meltdowns the size of TX. While all this was going on we were preparing our house to welcome a new family member. Buddy was born in October and we thought things would start settling down. Nope! Buddy was born with Strider ( super noisy breathing). When buddy was 3 weeks old he became sick. Our Midwife sent us to Cooks urgent care. We arrived and he was given breathing treatments,his oxygen level was low. He was sick! The doctor at the urgent care told us he was going to be transfered to Cook's hospital via ambulance. Hubby took Kk home with him and made arrangements for Kk to spend the night at our friends Lisa and Esequias. While they were gone I stayed with buddy. He and waited for the ambulance to transfer us to the hospital. We were there three days. All this time Kk was away from us. No one was aloud to visit since we were in quarantine. We left the hospital after the 3 ard day in the NICU. When we got home we were all so ready to spend some family time. Lets just a lot of things happened. I will now go back to just talking about Kk. Kk was very excited to have a baby brother. All she wanted to do is talk about the baby. She was adjusting in her own way. Kk had a hard time because she had to share mommy. Which is normal. Forwarding to the beginning of the year. Kk still had not made any progress in school. Infact she was getting worse. The teacher told us that she only I identified 6 letters of the 26 letters of the alphabet. At a parent teacher conference the teacher showed hubby all of the children's work how they had advanced and our daughter had not. Soon the teachers notes sorta stopped and Kk began to use words and do things that we were alittle worried about. I started listening to her play school. She started using words like ignore. We never use that word. She would say of ingnore her. Or mommy I need a straw a shutup straw. What. So we started asking Kk questions about her day. And we were shocked to here about her day.the teacher completely gave up on her and would let her take . Hour naps in class. Kk was left to do her own thing. So we called the school board to see if we could tested her tested. We started the paperwork for the 504. And in the middle of the process we find out that the school has no programs to offer Kk the help she needed academicly. All this time Kk was being treat for pain in her legs. She had a lot of swelling and pain in her legs. As parents we were trying to figure out what was going on. In March Kk got sick. And was sick for almost 2 weeks. She refused to go to school and wanted to stay home with me. So we decided to pull her out of school and start homeschooling all over again. We took Kk out of school in March and we started noticing she was very slowly getting better. She still wanted us to be next to her and go with her everywhere. She refused to go potty unless one of us was there in side the bathroom with her. And refused to be left alone in any area of the house. She was getting better slowly and we were worried about the trauma we had caused our daughter. Meanwhile very well intended people started to tell us how they disagreed with our idea of taking Kk out of school. We were told you just need to spank her more. Family and friends were giving us advice on how to raise her. How our decision was wrong. But we pressed on. We started seeking more medical advice. Our doctor was very helpful. She gave us some really good tips on how to handle our situation. She told us to pray and ask for wisdom and gave us sound Biblical advice on how to handle our situation. In late March hubby started feeling sick. Really down,no motivation what so ever. He felt so bad. I called our doctor and told her hubby might be depressed. This started us on a long journey that lasted 3 months with Kevin not being able to work and in an out of hospitals. Lets just say yup here we go again. In June Kevin was finally given the ok to incorporated himself back to work slowly. So it was another huge change since Kk had gotten used to daddy being home. It was going to be a change for all of us allover again. Kevin was going back to work and I was at home with my two babies. Things started to finally settle down this time. We found a homeschooling group near where we live and started attending. We loved it. In July we bought our first curriculum with an accredited school. We choose Abeka academy online video streaming accredited program. School was scheduled to start July 30. We were so excited to start. Kk was very excited do start. We started her in in K5. Soon I started to notice she was having some issues learning. She would have major meltdowns,she would get stuck on one specific item. If it was not perfect she would erase till she put a hole in her paper. We had good days and bad days. I felt lost somedays since I felt like I was falling her. I could not make her confident, I could not change the way she felt or the anxiety she would get at trying something new. All this was happening to Kk and we were dealing with family making us feel awful because Kk was suppose to be in school. We decided to look for a behavior specialist. Kevin found a pediatrician who is a behavior specialist. It was very hard to find a specialist that was not tied to anyone district or group. We called and scheduled our first appointment. They sent us a online forum that we had to fill out. They also sent one a for Kk's teacher to fill out. Since we were homeschooling we asked if it was ok for Michelle who is Kk's godmother to fill out the forum. They said of course. So we answered all the questions online and pressed send. On the day of our appointment Kevin went with us. While Kk and Buddy played the doctor spoke to us. He went down the list and put everything in categories for us. At that appointment we felt like we were FINALLY getting somewhere. Dr. Mike told us that Kk had autism, she also had anxiety. He explained to us all about her autism. We went home and told family about what the specialist had told us. Still no one really understood. Dr. Mike recommended homeschooling for Kk. He said with her type of Autism she would do better if she was homeschooled. What! Yes! Which totally made the family really him (NOT). The evaluation is done in 3 parts. We scheduled Kk's second evaluation with his child psychologist. We had a two hour appointment with her. Kk loved it. They played games,they talked,she observed Kk playing,interacting. Once we were done. Dr. Mike came to say hi and we left after making sure our next apt was still on schedule for the following week. I called my mother in law to see if she could come and take us to the apt since Kevin could not miss another day of work. She agreed to come and help with buddy while Kk and I focused on the appointment. Since we knew my mother in law would going to the apt Kevin emailed our doctor and told him everything his mother believed/ thought about all of this. On the day of the apt we arrived at the apt and my mother in law was going to leave with buddy to the mall. When the Dr told us they were ready for her. So I told her that the Dr had everything ready for her and buddy to stay. So she came in. At the apt Dr. Mike introduced himself. He tested Kk and did his evaluation. Next he began to go down the list and explain to us the results. I asleep my mother in law if she had any questions and she started asking. She asked him what he thought of the school's in our area. He said that they all sucked. They would help with one thing but not the other. They made a joke how if there is money after the football program is set then they will consider meeting some students needs. With Kk she is high functioning Autism aspie pretty much. He explained that for Kk's needs the schools would not meet her needs. She then asked him about his degree. And they talk for a bit. He explained to her how unfortunate for kids like Kk how they fall threw the cracks. After they were done we said our goodbyes and he gave us our copies of the diagnosis.

I AM BACK

Hi y'all
I am back
I will be writing about what has happened within the last year in our lives, reviews on products that we love and use,individual updates on everyone and family updates and sharing my hobbies with y'all. So stay tune.
God Bless y'all
Lulu

I will tell you what all this is later. Good night.

Karissa taking he temperature of the plant. she spent 30 min in vastigating why the plant was dieing.

One of Karissa art work

Art work . Kk loves to paint.

Our classroom

Classroom

Door to the classroom.

Kk's first Math chart. We asked family menbers to pick there favorite color. They had to choose from these four and then I put the little couter bears in the envelop with each persons name. Then she had to count how many people liked a certian color.

Art

What are we going to do today?
this is the basket where I put what will we be working on for our lessons

She loves her workbook

Kk does not like this folder very much.

Kk has chores and so when she complets one I mark it down.

Our classroom pet. Karissa wanted a pet so we atarted looking for diffrent pets. So she really like hamsters. She made up her mind. She wanted a femal, white and black, teddy bear hamster wich she named Princess. It took me almost a month calling diffrent pet stores to find what we are looking for. Finally Petco had one. So we got  went to Petco on a Friday of all days and got Kk her pet. The end

Learning to read

Kk's first pictograph

our Math curriculum

Art

This is what we are useing for Science for now. The only down side you have to buy all of the supplies.

Thankyou for stoping by.
Hope yall enjoyed our pictures.
I will be posting pictures of the house soon. Still learning how to upload the pictures.

God bless





Giving God the Glory in everything I do

About two weeks ago in the women's meeting we have on Friday night with Dorcas, we talked about Glorifying God. So as I was working on the awesome info I received that night I looked around at my house and saw that they way it looked it and said this is not Glorifying God. So on Thursday I started cleaning in the morning and by bed time I was almost done. On Friday I vacuumed the rooms, mopped, and did the detail work. Then I started decorating. Last Saturday night we had Michelle and Henry over for dinner. It was so relaxing to come home to a clean welcoming house. All that I did was light some candles to create a warm feeling (by the way did I mention they were papaya mango candles?). My house has stayed clean for the Glory of God.

Now I can't stand the house to be dirty. Everything gets cleaned in the moment I see it. This Thursday I cleaned out Kk’s kitchen and her toys. I labeled her cubbies and organized everything in its place. I am so happy and relaxed to actually have order in our house. Kk knows where everything goes; and so cleanup time gets done a lot faster. She knows where everything is, so she does not have to take out everything to find what she was looking for. Our classroom is in order. Now I am working on getting the closets in order. I have to work in the closet of each room. After we finish cleaning out everything we are going to paint and then Kk gets to go and pick out her bed. She has a dresser so all she needs is a bed. She has been begging for a desk so we are looking for one to match her furniture. I will post pictures of the before and after soon. As I learn to give God the glory in everything I do, I see how I fall short; but I am not giving up. My husband loves the new me. I give God the glory. If it was not for Him I would still live in a messy house all stressed out and unhappy. I now ask my husband why didn’t you tell me how bad our house was. And he says he tried but I didn’t see it.  So far keeping the house cleaned and organized gives me more free time to do things I like and have been wanting to do. I can even go to the gym and workout. It has also helped with our homeschooling as well. We have the day now to learn, play, explore and create. Last Saturday I learned a really helpful saying from Febe. The saying goes ‘A place for everything and everything in its place.’  My husband tells me that saying is more than a hundred years old, but I don’t remember hearing it. It has helped me to keep everything in order. It has helped me so much spiritually, mentally, and physically. I feel that I am a better wife and mother because of this experience.

God bless