10/27/2015

The Scoop on Scope

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What is Periscope? Everybody keeps talking about it and still so many haven’t taken the first steps to join in the fun! Periscope is a BRAND NEW Social Media Platform which allows the “scoper” to talk to people all over the world in real time! The followers (or viewers) can watch, comment and share and spread the love in the form of hearts (tapping the screen). They can watch in real time or on replay – but it is only available for 24 hours! It is not only fun but very informative. People are Periscoping – all day, everyday.

You can find someone talking about homeschooling, art, music, blogging tips, Instagram, making money, their products, there are even a lot of musical performances live on Periscope! There really is something for everyone. I’m on Periscope periodically – just search for my handle: @suchatimeblog. I would love for you to join me! My scopes are a time when you can find out more on a particular topic (I’ve done scopes on autism, homeschooling & dyslexia, my favorite curriculum, crafts for kids, art along with a few others). It is fun to get to know you better and you can ask questions, as well!

I recently read this new book by Kristi Clover of the blog Raising Clovers. She is a Periscope EXPERT. I actually started watching her on Periscope several months ago and I realized right away that she knows what she’s doing. She quickly built a Periscope following which also spread over to her YouTube channel and her blog. In this book, “The Scoop on Scope” she shares with you all of her tips and tricks and even offers a bonus chapter on social media safety. If you are a blogger or a newbie to Periscope – you need to read this book. It is an easy read but very thorough!

Here is a glimpse at what is included:

How to use Periscope
Pointers for Doing your First Scope
Tips for Before, During and After your Scope
Ideas and Topics for your Scopes
Finding Followers
How to Make Money through Periscope
Safety Tips

This kindle book is only on sale at it’s intro price of $2.99 for 2 more days!

10/24/2015

5 Sales You Don’t Want to Miss

5 Sales & Deals You Don’t Want to Miss

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There are some great deals and sales going on right now – that you don’t want to miss! Here is my quick post on what they are and where to find them.

1.) Crazy 8 is having a HUGE Sale! Get 40% off regular price items, up to 70% off markdowns and $8.88 jeans at Crazy 8! Valid 10/23-10/25 – so hurry!

Get 40% Off Regular Price Items, Up to 70% Off Markdowns, and $8.88 Jeans at Crazy 8!

2.) Gymboree is also having a huge sale starting 10/24! Get 40% Off the Entire Site + an Extra 50% Off Markdowns at Gymboree’s Great Fall Sale! Plus free shipping for two days only with code PUMPKIN!

3.) A brand new book by blogger, Kristi Clover of Raising Clovers, is out and it’s a must read! It’s called “The Scoop on Scope: Periscope Pointers for Bloggers, Beginners and Beyond.” The Kindle version is on sale for a limited time – it’s only $2.99. I started reading it last night and couldn’t stop! It is packed full of info for anyone interested in Periscope. Go grab a copy!

4.) Check out the Halloween Flash Sale at Cricut! Plus get an Extra 20% Off All Digital Items at Cricut! This is fun stuff – and moms enjoy a treat this time of year, too! Right?

5.) Starting today, Little Passports is offering 40% off the 1st month of ANY subscription! This is a great opportunity to do some early holiday shopping!

To take advantage of this exclusive deal, all you need to do is enter code AFF15 at checkout. To purchase, simply click on the banner or text link below. But Hurry- this exciting deal ends on 10/28/15!

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10/21/2015

11 Days of Veterans Day Activities {Link Up}

11 Days of Veterans Day Activities for Kids

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I’m excited to share with you a brand new curriculum to help your kids understand Veterans Day. It is meant to begin 11 days before Veterans Day – so you can begin by October 28th! Here is info and what it includes:

14 pages long
Activity ideas with links and resources included for 11 different subject areas.
Read, Art, Music, Drama, Service, Write, Poetry, Bible, Science, Games, and Field Trip.
Some of the activities include singing patriotic songs, writing a letter to a soldier, studying aeronautics, and going to a Veterans Memorial.
The introductory price is only $3!

Click the link below to get a FREE Veterans Day Lapbook!!!

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10/20/2015

Camron’s Story {Trials & Testimonies}

Camron’s Story

Trials & Testimonies

A few days ago I wrote a post about how God will give us more than we can handle. It is so important to share with each other our hardships and trials and to lift one another up in prayer. It is vital to be praying for others. It is also very important to share how God has answered prayers and seen us through trials and heartache.

Today, I want to kick off a new category on my blog entitled “Trials & Testimonies”. I want to share with you a good friend’s story in her own words about one of the most difficult times any of us moms could imagine facing. Thank you Staci, for sharing your heart with us today.

Camron’s Story

by Staci Yopp

Moms know that when school starts, the mingling of germs also start. Whether your child attends a Mother’s Morning Out preschool, a homeschool Co-Op, or full-day private or public school, the first or second week of September typically means some sort of mild sickness in many homes. Like clock work, upon entering the second full week of school in 2014, my son, Camron, started running a low-grade fever and had a nasty cough that wouldn’t go away. He complained of being tired and just didn’t have the energy of your typical eleven year-old boy. I chalked it up to the new school routine wearing him down, mixed in with the fact that he could come up with any excuse not to do homework!

After a week of the fever and cough, my husband and I decided that it was time to get him to a doctor. At the time, doctor visits were quite rare in our household. Beyond my kids’ yearly check-ups, they each might frequent the doctor one other time during the year for a sick visit. Like most moms, I had already pre-diagnosed Camron in my mind with:

a virus (you know . . . what doctors say when they can’t give you a prescription for anything, yet expect a co-pay),

pneumonia due to the severity of his cough.

That Friday afternoon, God showed up through a doctor who chose not to gloss over his symptoms in order to expedite his appointment slot. He chose to take the time to ask questions, ponder the symptoms, and to look at my child’s weary face in search of the right course to follow. I firmly believe that it was then and there that the Holy Spirit took over and guided him to do a peripheral blood smear so that he could look for any abnormalities in his blood, rather than just brush off his symptoms as a typical virus.

Many people complain about God’s timing being too slow for them, but God worked so quickly that day that I could hardly keep up. Our God-ordained pediatrician diligently worked on our behalf on that Friday afternoon and demanded the local lab service to process and read Camron’s labs after business hours. Unbeknownst to us, our doctor knew from the original blood smear that something was horribly wrong with our son and he did everything within his power to get us answers quickly.

Within a few hours of that blood smear, we heard our doctor utter the word that would change our lives. He said that Camron was in the early stages of leukemia. We found ourselves throwing clothes into bags so that we could quickly be en route to the closest children’s hospital in our area. It was on that rainy, Friday night that we entered into the terrifying world of childhood cancer.

We were forced to learn acronyms like:

KISU (Kid’s Immunosuppressed Specialty Unity),
ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia),
AML (Acute Myeloid Leukemia), and
LP (lumbar puncture).

We learned countless names for all of the different chemotherapies he would receive, how to flush a PICC line, and we took a crash course on “How to Read a Lab Report for Dummies.” We learned the need for a good doctor, a good pharmacy, and good friends.

But the most important thing we learned is how incredibly good our God is. We saw Him show up in a mighty way every time we turned around. We saw Him work through His people as they surrounded us with love, support, prayers, meals, cards, encouragement, money, and so much more. We saw Him in the face of our sick child who showed so much courage and faith that my husband and I often drew strength from him.

We also learned the true meaning of Bible verses that you simply can’t know until you go through trials.

We learned what it truly meant to pray without ceasing as we found ourselves praying all hours of the day and night. (1 Thess. 5:17)

We learned what it meant to have friends who love you at all times…including the wee hours of the night on the day of his diagnosis and every moment after that dreadful day. (Prov. 17:17)

We learned what it felt like to question whether or not God would heal my child that it would cause me to utter the phrase, “Lord I believe, but help my unbelief.” (Mark 9:24)

We learned what a true blessing the local body of believers truly is. We learned that when we suffer, they suffer right there with us. (I Cor. 12:26)

We learned what it’s like to have a need so great that the hem of Christ’s garment would be good enough for us if it meant healing would be the result. (Mark 5:24-34)

As the year ensued, we had many highs and many lows along the way. Through it all, God has been ever faithful. Going through this journey without Him would have been impossible.

I am so glad to be able to say that Camron is in remission and the worst part of his treatment is behind him. He will continue with chemotherapy for nearly three more years and we look forward to the day that he walks out of the hospital for the last time as a cancer patient.

Through it all, we have learned not to take a single second for granted. Our family will live each day to the fullest for Camron’s sake and for God’s glory. Camron has a bright future ahead of him and I can’t wait to see how God uses him for something great!

To join us in praying for Camron, please join his Facebook page at Prayers for Camron.

10/17/2015

8 Reasons Why God Will Give You More Than You Can Handle

I sat among friends at a Bible Study when I first remember the words. “God won’t give you more than you can handle.” It made me pause. Tears welling in my eyes.

Why does it feel that He has?

I’ve heard this statement many times over the years – the last time was only a few months ago. Those words seem to flow from the lips of believers. It seems the easy thing to say when someone is hurting. I have learned some valuable lessons in my life, one of which is to not believe those words. I won’t say it and I won’t believe it any longer.

God does give us more than we can handle. God will continue to, as well. How do I know? Just look to the Bible.

God Gave Them More Than They Could Handle

Joseph, through no fault of his own, was made a slave and then thrown in jail. He suffered miserably for years. It was God who gave him the power to interpret dreams which was the reason he not only got out of prison but was made second to the King of Egypt. It was all part of a greater plan to save God’s chosen people from dying of starvation during the famine that struck the land. (Genesis 41)

Elijah was given more than he could handle when Queen Jezebel was trying to have him killed. He ran from her, in a great depression, not knowing where to turn. Though at one time he lived by the power of God, in this instance he fled to a mountain to be alone in his sadness. It was there that the Lord met him and instructed him on what to do. (1 Kings 19)

David was a shepherd boy who faced lions and bears. Why? Was that something a little boy should have to handle? A little boy who would one day become king? He was given these challenges so that one day he would have the faith and the courage to face a giant named Goliath. Through these hardships, his faith grew exponentially. (1 Samuel 17:34)

Paul was given more than he could handle as he sat in a prison cell – a slave for Christ. He says in 2 Corinthians 12:

“If I wanted to boast, I would be no fool in doing so, because I would be telling the truth. But I won’t do it, because I don’t want anyone to give me credit beyond what they can see in my life or hear in my message, even though I have received such wonderful revelations from God. So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud. Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away. Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me. That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Cor. 12:6-9

James 1: 2-4 says, “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”

Reasons Why God Gives Us More Than We Can Handle

We are given more than we can handle to refine us.

We are given more than we can handle to grow us spiritually.

We are given more than we can handle to rid us of sin.

We are given more than we can handle to teach us patience and perseverance.

We are given more than we can handle to humble us.

We are given more than we can handle to teach us the power of prayer.

We are given more than we can handle so that we can see God’s power.

We are given more than we can handle so that we can experience God’s mercy.

The Truth About What We Need to Handle

It was never about what we can handle. Those of us who are believers should know this, but instead, we fall into the ways of this world. We want to carry on our shoulders those things which only God was meant to carry. We aren’t called to the be smartest, strongest, coolest, richest people in the world – we aren’t supposed to outwit, outlast, outplay others. We are called to be humble. To love God. We are called to follow Jesus. To depend on Him for our every need.

Some may confuse the verse in 1 Corinthians with this idea. “The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.” 1 Corinthians 10:13 This speaks of sin and temptation, not on life circumstances and trials.

God wants us to get to the end of ourselves – and then to leap with eyes of faith -leap to Him. Then we will see – and only then we can know that it was always God handling everything anyway. So stop trying to carry everything and give it to God. We can not only hope in the Lord but we can trust that, “He who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.” Philipians 1:6

Look to God’s Word

When you feel that you need to step up and “handle” whatever it is in your life, remember these verses and keep them with you as a reminder that God doesn’t want us to handle anything – He wants us to give it all to Him.

This is a lesson I am still learning every day. I need constant reminders to “give it to God”. My control freak nature causes me to have trouble remembering this. I don’t have the strength to handle all of the problems I’ve faced. Through them, I have been broken, I have been shaped, I have learned, I have seen God move and work in extraordinary ways.

More Than I Could Handle

I lost my mom to cancer when I was 23 – just months after giving birth to my firstborn.

I witnessed my oldest son drift away as autism took hold.

I’ve struggled with schooling and behavior for him.

I’ve hurt to see the loss of family relationships – a brokenness that runs deep.

And the health problems that perplex.

So much anxiety that riddles.

Job loss and financial burdens.

Fighting bitterness and loss.

But through it all He is faithful. Through it all he carries. Through it all God is God. It is good to look over our trials and triumphs and see just how God has truly carried us through.

My first guest post features one such trial: one that God has carried my friend and her family through.

What are you struggling with right now? What can I pray for? If you feel led, please leave a comment or send me an email.

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