Tishia’s Thoughts

Someone pinch me! Both of my babies are napping at the same time! Wow! I’m on here without a baby hanging off my arm and I don’t know what to do with myself. *smile* So I thought I would take a minute to post to my blog. My husband is still searching for a job and I’m both sad and happy to say that we have applied for food stamps. Some of you already know the crazy things we went through to get my son onto special needs Medicaid+. So I was dreading what it would take to sign up for food stamps because we got turned down for unemployment. It took quite a while because we needed, among other things, two character references and it took me weeks to find somebody willing to be my reference. It’s so sad that so many people say they will help you, just call them when you need it and when you do take them up on that offer, it turns out they didn’t mean it or that help came with conditions. I strive to help others to the best of my ability. I’d like to remind all of you to also look out for your friends and neighbors. Do you have a friend who needs a babysitter so she can job hunt? Offer to take her kid for one day a week. Do you have a neighbor that you know to be struggling to feed both her pets and herself? Leave a huge bag of pet food sitting by his front door for him to discover in the morning. Do you have a friend of a friend at church that has trouble feeding her family? Discreetly mail that family a gift card to the grocery store. All of those small gestures can and will have huge impacts on their lives. I’ve either done these or had those done for me and the small act of kindness had huge rewards. In my case, the small gesture was a mere signature and phone number on my application to the food stamp office. I just found out we were approved. I am sad we are now on welfare/government aid, but thrilled that now I can continue to buy food for my family and bless others with baked goods and meals.

I know the economy is very unstable at the moment, but does that mean your giving has to suffer? Only you can answer that question for yourself. As for me… well, that’s between me and God. *wink*