This week I interviewed my mom because I feel like you can't ever know enough of someone even if you see them every day and they happen to be your mother.  I asked her questions related to handling money, her experiences as a young woman, and what she has done in charity and community service.

I learned new things about her like how involved she is in the community, like on her days off I didn't know she helped out at food banks!  She also said that it is important that I, as a young person, help out as well so that others take the hint and also make some a difference for others and see how that makes a difference in us.

A piece of advice about money she gave me that I think is very true is that if you don't know how to handle money financially and mentally, no matter how much of it you have it will never be enough.  This is also makes true to the saying, "Money doesn't buy happiness."  If money is your world then your world will never be complete.

Having something as your passion whether that be helping autistic children or being the head chef at a restaurant is the best way to complete your life and find the core to happiness. Because happiness is the answer to life.

We have begun contacting way more organizations and the response we have been getting is amazing! Even though I had been disappointed about a recent set back, finally contacting some people has been really motivating.   I began to realize that there are so many people working to achieve my goal and that  is really uplifting and I know that something great will come from this.

As I have learned there are two ways of evaluating an organization; qualitative and quantitative.  Personally I value the qualitative more because even though someone can have all the right numbers they probably don't care too much about the cause they say they are all for helping.

But what I do know is that when someone is really passionate about a cause they will let you know not only with the words they speak but with feeling or vine they give.  This might sound weird but its like choosing the right cake for a wedding, when you know you know, it will never be a forced feeling.

So after many attempts at contacting our first organization, we finally heard back from The Help Group just to be told that their board members and volunteers were too busy to talk to us.  I can understand this because April is Autism Awareness month, but at the same time I am disappointed because we had thought that their board members should be willing to help anyone that wanted to help this wonderful cause. 

This was a major set back so we now have to once again start from the beginning and look through more organizations working with our common goal.  We have been researching more organizations and have had much luck in finding more and even better ones. 

This is a great lesson to learn not only about donating but also other things in life since once in a while we will have set backs but that itself won't really matter.  What will matter is our attitude and response to a sitaution like this, it makes truth to the saying, "When one door closes another one opens."  All I want to do is make sure there are enough doors to be avaible for entry for people who are treated different because they have something like autism and I want to find people who feel the same.

Hey Guys I just wanted to mention that April is Autism Awareness Month.