Red Dirt Rocker

Okay, so I've been reading this book called Red Dirt Rocker written by Jody French I received it on Sunday and finished it last night. I'm definitely going to read it again. First I'm going to ask my 15yr old daughter to read it. It's a wonderful book. All about a young man who has to make a choice between an MTV Rock Career or his Family and home in a small town. It's so inspiring to me, on many level's. I don't want to write too much yet because I'm writing a rough draft of my review I'm going to post later on, maybe tomorrow.... I just had to let all of you know to go out and get this book. It's only $10.00 on Amazon.com and I know you will enjoy it. Not only you but your teen's will enjoy it.

Hurry up before they're all gone!

God Bless

Operation Single Mothers is on it's way...

Here is a link to Operation Single Mothers that I started to help myself get through these rough patches while going through a divorce. I am trying to rebuild my life as well as my children's. I am going through a divorce and going from two income's to one "Part time" is almost impossible. My rent is over $900.00 a month and of corse I have the usual bills "Cell phone, Car Insurance, Electricity and Water"

Honestly I wouldn't have started this if it weren't for me humbling myself and realizing I DO NEED HELP. It's hard for me to ask... While raising money, I'm going to donate 20% of "My" raised funds to these two women's programs... I'll only keep 80% till I get to the $2,000.00 mark. After reaching my goal I'm going to keep trying to raise money for the Madonna House here in Tulsa Ok, I'm going to try and raise money for the Day Spring Villa Women's Shelter and more... You can click on the link's I've provided for you and donate as you wish. I made it to where you can donate only $5.00 and up. I don't expect everyone to be able to donate $20.00 and so on... I know it's a rough world out there and every one is having troubles.

I'll just say this... At least I'm not going to the Welfare office and asking for food stamps and I'm not asking charities for money... Mostly because I don't feel I'm that bad off just yet. I know there are other women who need it more then I do. I respect the law's, I respect the cause in itself. I dislike it when people abuse the system. They walk in there with gold chain's on, new clothes and new shoes. It's offensive because not only you but I am paying for their health care, their food... I feel it should only be for the children. They should have to prove what they spend their grocery (Food Stamp) money on. And for those who get TANAF (I think that's what it's called) I just hope they are spending it on their babies...

Okay, before I continue, I'm going to end this blog with a HUGE THANK YOU! Not only for reading this but for running it through your mind, even to consider donating to my Fundraiser.

Sincerely,
A single Mother
-Monica-

We've moved!!!

We're so excited. We've moved into our new place. It feel's like this would never happen at some time's then other's it came too soon. It was honestly a bitter sweet move. We won't get to see the people we love as often but we will visit as much as we can. Here is a photo of our living room now that it is set up :)

Spring is here

Wow, is it ever Spring. It rained almost all last week which happened to be Spring break for the kids here in Oklahoma. I think it does that just about every year. (Rain's all Spring break) The kids really don't get to do much because they're always stuck inside. Unless they go out of town/ State.

We ended up staying here and getting a lot done for the move. We've been going through thing's we don't need and so on. I'm excited that it's just around the corner. April 5th. I have all sort's of hopes for a fulfilling move. There's so much to look forward to. A new life, a new start, new surroundings and more. We've been looking at places in Pensacola Florida which is very nice. It still get's a bit chili in the winter but never snow's or anything like that.

I have a friend that just moved to Louisiana from there a few month's ago. She said she misses it real bad. I have another friend that moved to Arizona about a month or two ago and she keep's saying how she really misses the beach. Kind of funny...

I've been praying and praying that this is the right move (literally) for my children and I. This will be my first adventure with them. I can remember moving with my mom to California at the age of 8. We packed up our thing's and she got to a 4 way and said "Okay kids, right or left" For some reason all of us said "Right" and right we went.

We asked her what the meant and where were we going. She said "To California" We we're so excited! Everything we ever heard of California and all the movies we had watched at the weather and so on and so on! Woo Hoo, we we're so excited.

I remember stopping on our way some where in New Mexico and there was some Indian trails up to the mountains. We we're up there with a tour bus when all of a sudden a storm was moving in. They said we would have to sit it out. I was wearing short's and it got so cold my leg's started to turn blue. I'll never forget the hail and us all huddling into a pueblo hut until it passed. As soon as it passed it was like as if it never happened.

So weird... It got hot all of a sudden again and we all got back on the bus and went back down the mountain. I remember my mom making a can of bean's in the back window. We didn't have anything to cook with and no where to stop to eat. She had a few thing's she brought with us and she told us to put a can of refried bean's in the back window. So we did... About an hour later she told us to open it up and put it on a tortia and eat it. Honestly I couldn't believe it... It was good.

Memories are wonderful. We can choose to keep what we want (mostly the good) and learn from the bad ones. It's sad how some people keep the bad memories and live their lives off of them. They dwell in the past and make nothing out of their live's. Instead they could be gaining from those experiences. They can be moving up in life and showing other people what they thought or said of them was wrong.

I pray every day for the abused children out there.  I was an abused child, verbally, mentally, emotionally, and some time's even physically. I gained a lot out of it all. I'm the best mother I know out there. I'm the provider, i'm the supporter, I'm the education for my children, I'm the ONE who take's care of their every need and most want's.

I think moving to Florida is going to be a better life for them. Kylie always wanted to be an Aquamarine. Elizabeth always wanted to do something with the earth and Omi, Lord know's what he will do with his life. For now he's our little Super Hero! Make's me smile!

Well I'm off to bed now, it's about 9:45pm on this Monday evening. I hope all of you enjoy reading my little blog's and I really appreciate it.

Its Raining, It's Pouring

Good Night.... It's been one busy month and it's barely 1/2 over. 1st of all we have been having issues with this house since the day I put $10,000.00 down on it July of 2010
I'm not even going to try and list all the thing's that I've had to deal with right now because it's 10:45 at night on a Monday and I need to get my hoot in bed. I'm in such a good mood making a list would only bring me down. : / Anyhow, Today was a really good day even though it was raining most of the day. Omi woke me up early and I just didn't want to get up. I'm never this blah. I've been feeling so drained and stressed out. With this move, the house, my lawyer taking so long to get back with me, going through a divorce, fighting the 1st husband for child support... So on and so on.

I made a new video for you all while I was in the car at the mall waiting on my daughters to finish up shopping :)

Please leave comment's and love below! <3 Monica

Update on Moving.

Okay, so we're not moving this month as we thought originally... I guess we will be moving in April around the 4th. Time's have been different then we thought they were going to be. My ex-husband wasn't able to help me out financially like he thought he was going to be able to. So that set us back a little bit. I've got to have a garage sale, consign some thing's and more... Maybe do some Ebaying so I can sell thing's in a timely manor. Thank you all for watching my video. And please don't forget to "Fallow, Join and more..."

Thanks, Monica

Baptism day

So today was "The Big Day" We we're finally Baptized. We have been waiting two week's. We couldn't get baptized last Sunday because there was a problem with the tub. I think it wouldn't hold water. I was so sad but understood. I think the Lord does everything for a purpose. It's been an amazing journey these past few years here in Coweta. But not it's time for us to move on. I'm going through a divorce and thing's are changing in a big way. I've decided to move to Florida and We're all so excited. Here's a few photos  for ya. God Bless.

Haha, this is me getting my hair done Saturday Morning by a friend at her salon! I was so stoked to get more red put in it. I plan on keeping it red for a while! :)

My new red hair! I LOVE IT! Thank You Angela D. I love my new hair (Much better then the last girl I had do it) I'm recommending you to everyone! It was definitely worth the drive. 

Now, onto the Baptism, today on this Sunday of March 4th 2012

Once we are "born again" the Lord instructs us to be baptized in water as an act of obedience to typify what has happened to us spiritually.

Romans 6:1-18:

"I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire" (Matthew 3:11).

This is us 3 just before the baptism. It was such a calm and amazing feeling! 

"For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him: Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord" (I Samuel 1:27-28)

Cheese, haha. We didn't wear make up because we knew we were going to get wet. : /
So we look like Bums haha.

"And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God" (John 1:32-34).

My Kylie just before putting on her white gown to get Baptized. 

Water baptism is an act of obedience that follows conversion to portray symbolically the washing away of our sins. Water baptism calls for immersion instead of sprinkling. Many groups that have only sprinkled in times past are now seeing that the Scriptural method is total immersion in water. In fact, the Greek word "baptism" means to immerse, submerse and emerge. The baptism itself does not bring salvation; salvation inspires the water baptism. It should be the first thing we do after we are "born again." Those who have received Jesus in their hearts should desire to follow Him in this ordinance. Jesus Himself came to John the Baptist to receive His water baptism because He was to take the sins of the world at His death. These sins would be washed away by God for those who put their trust in Him.

Anyone who receives water baptism must realize what it means to receive it; therefore, infant baptism is not Scriptural. One must repent and be saved to be baptized. Water baptism portrays the burial of the old man and his works of death and the raising out of the water into the new life in Christ. An infant cannot repent. However, parents can dedicate their babies to the Lord, as there are many accounts of this throughout the Bible. Hannah prayed a beautiful prayer when she dedicated her son Samuel to the Lord, John's baptism of repentance was to prepare the way for the baptism of the Holy Ghost by Jesus.  If we are baptized into Christ, we are also baptized into His death; all of our sins are nailed to the cross. This revelation will free us from all guilt when we realize every sin we have ever committed has been washed away. Going under the water is a type of being buried with Christ in death. Coming out of the water is a type of being raised alive with Christ. We are no longer under the law (the law of sin and death), but we are not to yield to sin or we will come back under that law. We need to nail the sin principle in our lives to the cross. (Jesus was crucified, so now sin has no more dominion over us.) We must crucify the sin in our lives which means to die to self through God's resurrection power. If we yield to the Spirit of God, then sin will no longer have control over us. When we yield to the devil and sin, at that moment we become Satan's servant. The "law of sin and death" begins at that time to work against us. That law produces fear, guilt, doubt, unbelief, sickness, etc., because we have become a servant of Satan. The moment we truly repent, we are back to being the servant of God and sin has no more dominion over us. When we walk in God's peace, we will even be able to walk the martyr's life filled with the resurrection power of Christ. We need to be in the place where we will would lay our life down before we would deny Christ or hurt God by sinning against Him. We should look different from those in the world! When we yield completely to Christ, we will be truly free. Daily, we must crucify self and let Christ live through us.