Needing some help and some prayers!!!

Hi all :)  THANK YOU SO MUCH to the friends that still follow along, email me and ask how we are, send words for prayer and encouragement, etc!  We soooo appreciate you all!  We are still in massive need of prayer.  This not having a job for so long is not going well.  Bobby is subbing as a custodian at the schools BUT the first pay does not come till FEB 15th for everything worked in January.  In addition to that the pay is VERY VERY LOW.  We are prayerful it will turn to an actual position with higher pay but we have no way of knowing. He did not sub thursday to go to an interview for another part time saturday job to proctor ACT testing but the interviewer got sick and was not there.  He took advantage of the day off to go and gather some applications and talk to more places.  PLEASE PLEASE be praying for us!  Bobby and I together have started a Thirty- One Gifts business!  We are praying this goes really well and will help along!  If you have heard of thirty - one and are saying I dont use tote bags it is WAY more than just tote bags though they have those too and the best quality!  Its tote bags, purses, wallets checkbook covers, and tons of organizational stuff etc.  The personalization stuff is awesome!  They have little expressions now which is like the things where you build your family to put on your product.  Anyway PLEASE check out or website and see if there might be something you would love, or contact me about doing an online or catalog party!  and please share our site with others!! We REALLY NEED Customers and parties booked!  If you book a party you can earn free products!  How great is that! :)  

This is what I made for January to seek hostesses for my parties! :)  I do not know what the hostess rewards will be for February parties but I know it will be great! 

and this is a button I made for our FB page for our business :)  you like??

Now on to what most of you really want to see :)  PICS :)  I am doing a thing on FB where I am doing a picture collage each day and writing a bit about our day!  My hope is at the end of the year I have a kinda scarpbook to print of our 2013!  Health wish I have not been feeling well so somedays are better than others with this.  Here are some from the past week or so :)  Would love to hear comments on what you think :) If you have seen on fb sorry but I was told there are folks who come to the blog that do not check the FB every day and some are not even on fb at all.  soo here you go guys!

These were some cute ones of Jeremiah snuggling with Celeste and of Noah eating my shirt while we waited for Jeremiah's EEG down south!  He is such a funny dude!  And that is an in and out bag that I earned from Thirty-one!  They really encourage and reward us!!!!

 

LOVE this one!  the one on the left is Noah tellin me I wuv you with all my heart! Then the top right is at our community group praying over Noah about medical trip coming up and the bottom right is Jeremiah being happy at that same event :)

Top left GUMBO at my fav place in Lafayette! Prejeans!  then a few shots of Noah and Jeremiah at the restaurant.  This was after all our dr visits, tests, news, etc.  and then the picture of my feet after I finally got home.  It was hard to tell in pic but feet ankles and even up to my knees were and still are swollen bad! This trip was a mixture of news.  Some still not completely over yet so I will save that till we know for sure what is going on with that.  The Neuro did decide Noah does NOT have spina bifica occulta according to the spine MRI even though he does have a sacral dimple and other symptoms.  He also diagnosed Noah with high functioning Autism.  I am not totally sure I agree with that diagnosis but that is what they said.  He is not classic at all and we were educated at length about what Autism daignostic standard is and what specific things made this diagnosis and so we have alot to digest.  Jeremiah had some medication changes and we found he was aspirating severly so even though we both enjoy his by mouth feeds so much we have had to stop ALL by mouth feeds.  It is possible in the future with alot of really good therapy and a good feeding program if I can find one that he may be safe to try again later after a passed swallow study but for now we are to bollus 3 times a day formula and a little baby cereal to help that stay down and not risk aspiration by reflux.  Also some changes were made to his meds to hopefully help the decline going on with him.  We have to go back early march for genetics for both boys and orthopedics for Jeremiah that is desperate because of his hip and back.  Not sure at this moment HOW that trip is happening but we are trusting God.  Please keep both boys in prayer and soon I will have some more to share about some other things revealed during MRI.

just a fun day at home! :)  Noah loves Emergency on tv :)  and dancing :) Jeremiah on his space blanket and smiling 

on the left is Noah singing in school one day and doing movements, top right is therapy at home with special instructor and bottom left is Noah with therapy dogs at Grace Respite Night we are blessed to have once a month Jan thru Oct.

This was yesterday.  Noah dancing again on the left and Noah and Jeremiah rocking on the left bottom and the top left is our business cards that came yesterday!! :)

School days with the babies!

This was a LONG day.  Fittings for AFO, wrist splints and elbow immobilizers for Jeremiah and then a dr appt for Noah who started feeling really bad.  His o2 sats were down and he had really bad bronchitis.  The foot was an injury when I feel down the ramp that morning!  You name it , it went wrong that day!

For those who have been around a LONG time.  Who remembers me babysitting the newborn twins before Noah came home?? :)  We saw them a little when Noah was first home and they came to a party and all but have not really seen then alot but recently their mom and I met back up on FB. :)  And this past Monday evening we babysat them and their 2 older sisters!  Noah had a blast and I LOVED having them again! :)  So did my heart good :)

These were taken day one of our trip to Lafayette for dr appts.  2 of them are taken through an aquarium at the hospital :)  the other is Jeremiah gettin hooked up for EEG

This was last Saturday.  Our Thirty-One start up kit arrived , I spent the day laminating stuff for lapbooks I am making for school and the bottom right was a picture I made at my mary kay party! :)

My adorable boys

Here are some of the bags we have!  There are tons more items too but just thought I would share a few pics of some stuff!

 Thanks for listening guys!  PLEASE keep us in prayer for health, finances, job, the business, and me personally for multiple things!  I really appreciate you all! :)

News to share!

I wanted to come and share that Bobby and I have started a new venture together!  As most of you know we have been having a very hard time since Bobby was budget cut from the state and it has been up and down with jobs and then looked up with railroad and then that job left and so now he is doing a bit of subbing for a very low rate of pay.  We are in great need of prayer for our family and how things will work out to keep us afloat.  Recently a dear adoption friend presented us with an opportunity for Bobby to be an independent consultant for Thirty-one Gifts with me as his assistant so we could be a team!  Well after much prayer and discussion we leapt in faith!  So we have our business now.  These are a few pictures I have made a couple are business cards and one was to post here and on FB to ask folks to host a party with us! :) 

 

So if you have a few PLEASE check out or website!  We will be selling from the site as well as doing catalog parties, online parties and in home parties :)  Please share the site with others too! :) 

https://www.mythirtyone.com/Sisemores

 

 

PLEASE keep our family in prayer!!  and PLEASE pray Bobby will find a very good job and very soon!  Thank You :)

 

And I wanted to share this picture too :)

 

Blessings in the Storm

We have had a rough few months to end out 2012 with the loss of Beth and Bobby's job and the job search not going well at all.  BUT I will say we have had sooo many blessings come sneaking in through it all.  Our kids had a better Christmas than they would have had if Bobby had not lost his job! We had a feast for Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinners all from gifts that would show up in the mail or at the door!  Some with no signature other than Santa or the Lord led us. We were blessed beyond measure and brought to tears of gratitude and excitement through it all.  We are prayerful going into 2013 that things will smooth out and the Lord will provide an amazing job for Bobby where God can use him and use that job to care for our family!  I must say it is hard for a man who is a good hardworking man, a loyal employee of 20 years who is used to working and caring for his family to be in this position of trying so hard to have door after door slammed in his face.  I pray so hard for my husband against discouragement and that he will be upheld as we wait on the Lord to show us His plan! We have have even been so blessed that there is groceries in my kitchen and several bills have been paid!  We do not know how the big bills are getting paid this month but we know that God is in control!  Bobby and I were married in 2005.  This is our 7th year of marriage.  So 2013 is our 7th year together!  We are praying and claiming it to be the year of Jubilee for our family!  The 7th year is a good year biblically! This song is one we love :) Thought I would share!

Music is VERY dear to my soul!  Worship music is how I feel closest to God!  I thank God for my ipod that I can use youtube when I am in a wifi zone!  I cling to so many songs by Kari Jobe, Vicki Yohe and on and on!  Music expresses things words alone just can't! 

another song that means alot to me!

Ok, now on to some pictures from the past month or so :)

OK. I have been trying to get these pics and post this but blogger wont let me upload from the computer anymore. I guess it is this old falling apart computer of hubby's I have to share now.  PLEASE pray the Lord provides a new computer or at least a new to me one soon!  I do so much advocacy work and school stuff using the computer plus keepin in touch with everyone that I can't imagine not having a computer at all so even with no sound and constantly shutting down and on and on the issues with this one I am thankful for it!  Anyway I THINK I have figured out how to upload to picasa web albums and post here from it.  So we shall see :)

 

YAY It worked!  And it is easier anyway!  woohoo :)  So on to pics! :)

 

This collage is of some pics of us before Nannie Beth's (Bobby sister) memorial service.  Dont my guys look sharp! It was such a very hard and emotional day but I know Beth woudl have LOVED how they look!

 

 

We were BLESSED to win a trip to Jubilee Zoo and a free LIVE Christmas Tree!  These next few collages are from our day out there :)  THANK YOU to Jubilee Zoo and Macaroni Kid Shreveport Bossier! (oops pics did not come up in right order so there are more after these next couple)

 

These pics are from Homeschool Farm Fun Day! :)  Both my boys so respond to horses!  I am blessed to have any pics of the day because my camera BROKE at this event :(  Some of these were taken by others and some was on the camera when it broke.  It broke before the boys rode even sigh.  All I have is the ipod camera now which is not good but I am thankful for it.  So am depending on it and kindness of others now for pics.  sigh

 

 

Jeremiah at the homeschool Farm Fun Day!  He LOVES the ponies :)

 

Back to Jubilee Zoo pics!

 

More Jubilee Zoee

 

Picking the perfect family Christmas Tree!

 

Deck the Halls

 

 

The beautiful tree! :)  This is the biggest tree we have ever had!  It did not look this big at tree place! :)  lol  It was an exact perfect fit!  any taller and it would not have :)  It was hand picked by God!

Some of these were made Christmas Eve and the other was at the Moms of special needs chidlren's Christmas Party.  All taken with an amazing camera that I WISH was mine! LOL

Pics from the Moms of Children with Special Needs Party

Most of these were taken at our Churh's Christmas Family Dinner.  The one with all the kids and CARS was at our cookie decorating day at our house!

Just some shots from the season.  Day 1 truth in tinsle ornament, doing our advent stockings, Noah dressed as a Fireman and Jeremaih looking at the tree up close!

 

more decking the halls!

A Christmas collage I made!

Gingerbread cookies with Jei Jei (Big sister in Chinese)

 

New year's Day!  Bible reading at midnight and games at home New Years Night!

 

 

A fun Saturday in January

At a medical appointment.  God has really blessed us with my new helper Matasha!  She calls herself TaTa to Jeremiah.   She helps with medical stuff but also is my right had in school with both boys!  She goes above and beyond every day!  She helps Jeremiah to be involved in so much! :) 

Bedtime fun one night

Gait Training! :) 

 

Jeremiah making a polar bear and helping paint his letters! He was actually holding the paint brush!  This is when he got tired and was starting to fall alseep!

 

Noah making his Polar Bear and Painting letters!

 

Well thats about it for us for now.  Please keep Bobby in prayer for a job.  He did get some sub work at the school for custodian but the pay is min wage.  No way to pay our house payment or anything.  We are praying if it becomes permanent the pay will go up.  Praying hard that God will show us what He has for us! :)  Sometimes it is hard to trust but part of my Bible study today with Good Morning Girls said God's Word will never fail!  God's word says He will provide for us and care for us so I KNOW He will!

 

 

 

We have been hit with alot this month that was unexpected.  We did not expect to enter this holiday with no job and without Nannie Beth here on this earth with us.  We have had to make a conscious effort to REMEMBER to give thanks in ALL things!!  May God richly bless your family this Thanksgiving and into the Christmas Season coming soon!