Christians Helping Jewish People in Need

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of HelpThisJew.com. All opinions are 100% mine.

Have you recently read about a charitable organization that assist Jewish people in need? As a Christian I recognize Jewish people as God's chosen people. We should help the Jewish community just as we would anyone else in need, but something deep inside my spirit finds even greater satisfaction in knowing I'm helping God's chosen. Christians and Jews worship the same God... a God of mercy, love, and charity.

Jewish people are some of the most charitable people in the world. At www.helpthisjew.com you can find Jewish people looking for transportation to chemo treatments, couples wishing to adopt a child, families needing funds to pay rent, and just about anything else you might imagine. By registering with this site you can share your needs (as a Jewish person) or you can offer to help someone of the Jewish faith meet a need. What a great platform for reaching out and making a difference in the life of another human being.

If you're looking for a Jewish Charity or just enjoy reaching out to others in need of things both great and small... check out www.helpthisjew.com today. Everyone should have a charity they support. If you've not found yours, or you feel you've been called to take up a second or third... visit this site today, pray about it, and see where God leads you.

It's awesome to find yet another instance of how the Internet can be used for good when we routinely hear so many stories of how it has been used to bring harm into the lives of the innocent.

Enter History.com's Pre Holiday Giveaway

Are you a fan of the History Channel? I "liked" History.com on Facebook a few weeks back and consequently found out ASAP about their Pre Holiday giveaway, which I'm entering right after sharing the juicy details with you!

What can you win? The Ice Road Truckers Ultimate Fan Collection and a Canon PowerShot SX200 IS Digital Camera is going to find a home with 3 fortunate someones who took the time to fill out the entry form at History.com and did so this week! The giveaway is only good for a few days, so don't delay.

The Fan Collection includes a t-shirt, mug, hat, episodes of the show and of course the camera! The prize package is valued at $500. Btw, we currently own a Canon PowerShot camera and are quite pleased with that purchase... but I could always use another. My husband and I currently have to share. Yes, I'm that spoiled that I'm actually complaining about sharing with my husband. After he uses the camera I can never find it... which is a problem, don't you think?

Ok... back to the giveaway (which I confess to hope to win)... I tried to find a way to include an image of the giveaway prize package here within the contents of this post, but no luck. That's ok though because all you have to do is click: History.Com Sweepstakes to find it!

Happy day and good luck to you and to me! :o)

Glidden Offers a Better Way to Paint

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Glidden. All opinions are 100% mine.

Are you in the market for a fresh coat of paint for your home or a special project? GliddenTM Ready-to-Go Paint Testers offer you a quick and easy opportunity to sample the color in your chosen place of application. You can find the testers at your local Home Depot, which are unique from the competitors brand in that you're given actual paint and a brush rather than just a sample on cardstock. This means you can have real paint to take home and apply, allow to dry, step back and decide whether this is what you had in mind, and have complete peace with your decision before making a commitment to a color. Is that cool or is that cool?

These testers are very reasonably priced and will spare you the expense of a costly mistake when painting your home. I only wish some of my neighbors had used the Glidden Ready-to-Go Paint Testers before they'd made their final decisions... but that I'll spare you the details. lol

Visit Glidden.com and learn about their top 10 color palettes and Glidden's extra large paint chips created to make your paint purchasing experience less stressful.

Glidden offers so many options for those of us who really need to "see it" before we commit. I'll be real honest with you... buying paint scares me to death. When we painted the house we currently own, we had to find the exact same color on another house in our neighborhood before we felt confident that this was in fact the color we wanted. Back then, paint testers were unheard of and simply looking at paint chips wasn't enough to give us that peace of mind we were after.

If that's not enough... you'll also love Glidden's Room Painter... available at Glidden.com which allows you to try out the various color options and even share them with your friends on Facebook and Twitter! lol So, you could maybe ask for your friend's opinions? Maybe? lol

How Do You Find a Good Child Psychiatrist?

We've had a dreadful time trying to find a good psychiatrist for our 9 year old son (with Aspergers). I get all sorts of names from moms with special needs children who love their doctors... and not one of these beloved physicians is accepting new patients. This leads me to the conclusion that we have a shortage of qualified child psychiatrists.

I say this because we live in a large metropolitan area with scads of doctors in every field imaginable, but the only doctors I can find who are accepting psychiatric patients are reported to be lacking any personality and some are listed as psychiatrists, but don't have an MD??? Am I missing something? 

So, this has been a very frustrating process. I have a child who really needs to be seen and soon. We're also seeking general counseling for our son, but I have him in with a great gal for general therapy sessions... she can't prescribe anything, should he need it, but he has someone to talk too and that's huge.

Hoping tomorrow will bring forth a new lead or two. I've posted the question on a local autism board... hoping that will be fruitful. In the meantime I'd like to ask for prayers. My little guy is depressed and we need to get him into see someone soon.

Blessings,

Just for Fun

Another awesome post from "Ordinary Time" Guest Blogger.... 

(I was in charge of my homeschool support group’s most recent meeting.  Since I’m not overly fond of meetings on the whole, I like to liven them up a bit.  This was the result.)

We all know the reasons we give to others as to why we homeschool:  positive socialization, individualized education, efficiency, flexibility, etc.  But, we all know there are other motivations, as well.  Here they are, the top 10 reasons people homeschool, but don’t admit to anyone:

10.  Because you get educator discount cards to stores you really like.

9.  Because you don’t play well with others.

8.  You don’t enjoy packing lunches.

7.  It gives you an excuse to buy yet more books.

6.  You need to occupy your time somehow.  Because, truly, what would you do if your children were gone for 6 hours a day?

5.  You really do enjoy fielding questions from complete strangers regarding your family’s educational choices.

4.  It gives you an excuse to eat vast amounts of cookies all in the name of teaching the concept of fractions to your children.

3.  Your extended family already thinks you’re the crazy one, why stop now?

2.  This way no one will ever ask you to be on the PTA and to help organize school fundraisers.

1.   Because you didn’t really need the money which pays the property taxes which fund the public schools which you don’t use.

~"E"
www.ordinary-time.blogspot.com

Our Living Room Comforter Dilemma

I would love to have my family stop treating our living room as a spare bedroom... but after 9 years of occasional camping out for my son, nearly 8 eight for my daughter and some 40 for my husband, I'm better off making lemonade out of lemons than getting myself all worked up over a megshift bed in the middle of my living room floor. I think.

Even before we got married, I'd visit my then friend at his apartment and find him lying on the floor in front of the television. After some amount of time I realized he not only spent many afternoons napping in that spot, but he actually slept there at night too. So, why should it surprise me that after nearly 11 years of marriage he still finds the floor space in front of the living room television more comfortable than a bed? What's more... our children seem to think watching television with dad on the living room floor under a VERY worn comforter normal and preferable to sleeping in a bedroom.

I will pick my battles. I give up trying to rally everyone up off the floor to show them the living room couches or when 9 o'clock strikes and it's time for bed, convincing my daughter to stop cuddling with daddy so she can go to her lonely, but very pretty bedroom for a good night's rest. When I was her age I would have LOVED her pink bedroom with storybook princesses on the walls, fluffy pillows with her name embroidered on them, and even a DVD player for when getting to sleep isn't easy. Btw, the DVD player wasn't my idea either!

I'm not going to play bed police, but what I am going to do is replace that horrible blanket with some modern bedding. The comforter they all go for is from my apartment some 14 years ago. Before marriage, before kids... I actually bought the ugly blue comforter to tack over my bedroom window because there was a horrible draft that winter and my bed was right in front of it. Didn't make for comfortable sleeping. The comforter was only $17 at Walmart, so it seemed like the perfect solution and indeed took care of the problem. I think it's now time to place this sad looking blanket in the garage to keep for a future dog bed or maybe we could throw it in the back of the van as an emergency blanket. In any case... I don't want it in my living room anymore!

If we're going to have bedding in our living room, I'd like to see it match the furniture... or the room. So, I'm now in the market for something earth-toned, comfortable looking, large enough for an average sized daddy and 2 average sized children. lol Something that doesn't give me a headache and that I can live with... since it looks like I have no other choice.

I love to shop, love to solve problems, and love that I have an opportunity to do both. Do you see the photo? I just recently bought new pillowcases to match our living space. Before we had pillows in every color imaginable lining the floors of my living room. Tossed together with the ugly blue blanket. What you're seeing here is the aftermath of daddy and kids watching Disney rides in action as filmed by guests and posted on YouTube. That was 3 hours ago... yes, the mess is still there.Sigh.