This week and Mother's Day

Mother's day is just about over and my kids are currently getting themselves ready for bed.  It's a much easier time of day than it was a few years ago.  I can tell them to get themselves ready  and they do.  That's it.  I don't have to do anything else but read a little, snuggle a little, reflect on the day and hear their night time prayers.  It's really pretty sweet.  I keep it simple and flexible.  Some nights there isn't time for reading.  Some nights our snuggles only last a minute or two.   I have found flexibility one of my best friends as a mom and I'm so lucky that my kids accept it as part of their journey too!

This week I saw a "Mother's Creed" that really resonated with my soul because we moms can get a little ridiculous in our expectations of ourselves.  Well, I know I can anyway. I find myself fighting perfectionism or getting starstruck by the mom who bakes each day or an awesome friend who loves to do crafts with her kids and the I start to compare myself and let's be honest, when we compare ourselves with others, we almost never measure up because we compare our worn out, frustrated and exhausted selves with their enthusiastic best.  The only solution is that we just stop comparing ourselves to others, do our best and give ourselves grace on those days we just don't have as much to give.

Anyway, Lisa-Jo Baker does a great job with her "MOther's Creed" and you can read it here:

http://lisajobaker.com/2012/06/encouragement-for-tired-moms/

Now, on to our weekly business... The following is the list of items we need to pack bags this week:

27 cereal bars
21 cans of soup
14 cans corn
24 raisins
2 pudding cups

Thank you to everyone who contributes each week!  Bear Necessities is a community ministry and each week when we have exactly what we need, I am reminded of Matthew 6:24-27 and just how valuable these families are to Jesus in Heaven.

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?"

This week's list

Just a quick note with what we need this week:

23 peanut butter
25 jelly
26 ritz cracker sleeves
12 cans green beans
18 individual bags cheez its

Next week's needs

A huge thank you to everyone that offered to help out with deliver this week!  Everything has fallen into place perfectly!

For next week we have a pretty big list:

19 individual boxes of cereal
22 cans tuna
23 ritz cracker sleeves
27 cans soup
12 easy mac envelopes
27 cans corn
16 applesauce


Every little bit helps! 

This week's needs

Just five more Fridays until summer break... which also means five more Fridays until I have a middle schooler!  Wow.  Where does the time go? 

Just FYI- we will be continuing to serve at least a portion of our families over the summer just like last year. 

This week we just need a few things:

12 individual cereal boxes
24 cans chili
20 easy mac envelopes

I NEED SOMEONE TO DELIVER BAGS NEXT FRIDAY!!!  My baby sister is getting married in the Smokey Mountains next weekend and I won't be available to deliver the bags.  I would need someone to get them on Wednesday evening and deliver them on Friday morning.  If you can help, please call or text me 314-540-4718.  Thanks!


Also, a huge THANK YOU to the FIT Team for working together with us to get breakfast bags for all our kiddos during MAP testing!

This week's needs

Just a quick note to share what is needed this week:

27 oatmeal bars
24 cans of soup
13 easy mac envelopes
27 cans of corn
27 raisins
58 apples

If you are able to get any of these items, we are so very grateful!  Remember that bags are packed on Wednesday!

Thank you!

Needs for this week

Just a quick post with what we need for this week:

2 peanut butter

13 jelly

7 individual snack bags of cheez its

If you are able to help, we need everything by Wednesday morning!  Thank you!

This week's needs

Somehow, when the kids are out of school for a day or two it throws me all off!  I try to take that time and hang with them and apparently they are so intriguing that I forget everything else! 

We'll pack bags tomorrow right after school but in order to be able to do that, we still need the following:

27 cans tuna
12 cans soup

That's it!  It's not that much but I know it's short notice.  If you can grab a few, please do!  It's so appreciated!!! 

I also wanted to share the sweet group of bag packers we had last week!