Resourceful-Mom

Online classes for busy moms

With a full time job and a daughter that seemingly adopted another sport or social club everyday of her high school life, it was difficult for me to pursue traditional methods of continuing my education.   Even if I could have maneuvered my work schedule for classes, which I couldn’t afford to do, being a single mother made it close to impossible to make it to class on time.

Looking back now I realize that if it weren’t for my previous employers requiring that I take a certain number of company sponsored courses for self improvement and industry knowledge,  it would have been all too easy for me not seek additional training.  Furthermore, the fact that the the courses were directly tied to my yearly performance evaluations made completing these courses almost mandatory. Read more…

Ecclesiastes 1:9 for Moms

While in my very early 20′s, I was told things like “Sabrina, anyone can have a car note”, when my face would light up over a nice car, “It’s not always what you put in your pocket” when my face didn’t light up over a 3% raise on a $20,000 salary and “You do realize you’re grown and you have to take up for yourself?” when I shared with my mother how mean I was being treated by some of the older women at work. Even more recently, I’ve heard “Just keep living” more than I’d care to count. As I have gotten older, the wisdom in all of these phrases have been revealed. I, in turn, want to be as valuable to others as these women have been to me.

We all, at different times, experience situations that we’d rather not have to deal with but Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NIV) says “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun”. For me, this means someone, somewhere has gone through what I am going through and, as a result, they have the resources I need to get through it. As a mom, it’s been comforting to know that there are answers, I just need to find them. Hopefully, you are comforted in this as well.