Pray for the Weindorfs

Today, a friend of mine from Life Action, MK, is attending the funeral service for her 17 month old little boy, Lucas, who was born with CHARGE Syndrome. Please pray for her and her family as they grieve his loss, but celebrate his new life he began Thursday in heaven with Jesus in his new, CHARGE Syndrome free body. To read more about their journey, check out her blog here.

Road Trippers

We have friends from our days at North Greenville that are making their way across the country on a 25 day road trip. They began their journey today. Check out Jed's or Matt's blog to follow their crazy adventure. It'll surely make you smile. What's even more fun is that we're going to be one of their stops along the way. I think we'll be day 3! We're curious what they'll end up with pictures of as they make their way from Dallas to El Paso. All they'll see is dirt, windmills and an occasional Dairy Queen, because we all know that Texas is DQ country! I am a tiny bit jealous that they're going to leave our house and head toward Las Vegas.

Girl Power

Yesterday I had this weird urge to go to Garden Ridge. I needed to get a couple of storage boxes that they have on clearance for like $2. While I was there, I decided to venture over to their dining room tables and see what they had. There it was - - THE table I wanted and even better, it was on sale! I walked away and thought about it for a few minutes and decided this was a good deal and would all be in a box so it wouldn't be hard to keep at my place until the movers come next week. I also thought that since I have a mini-van I would be able to fit it in there to get it home. After I paid for it, 2 nice Garden Ridge worker boys tried to get it in the van - NO CIGAR! It wouldn't fit with the boys' seats in there. So I came home trying to figure out what I would do - I had already paid for it so I just had to figure out how to get it home. I got so discouraged trying to figure it out that I just had to get a blanket and laid on the couch to watch the Unit until I could get back in a good frame of mind. I really was on the verge of tears over a table! I had even called Garden Ridge to tell them I didn't think I could get it out of my car once I got home even if I was able to pick it up somehow so I would just go in today and return it and get my money back.

Friends to the rescue!! I had called Cindy just to see if she had any ideas. The box weighed 173 lbs so I knew I would need some serious help getting it out. Cindy's usually pretty ingenious about helping me out of these crazy situations! Then I got an email from Sheri and mentioned in my response that I had bought this table, yadda, yadda, yadda...She emails me back and says "Duh - Bradd has a truck." That solved my pick up problem. Then I had to figure out the 'get the monstrous box in the house' problem. So I called Cindy and another stay at home mom friend, Jennifer, to see if they could come to the house for a few minutes to help us carry this thing in. My wonderful friends agreed. So this morning we picked up the table from Garden Ridge and converged at my place to show our true girl power and carried the big box into the house! Yeah Us!!! Yeah for friends who help me out of my strangest predicaments.

So now I have a new table with 6 chairs in 1 box! Jake emailed me and told me that I had earned a new comforter and stuff for our bedroom since I had sucked up this single mom thing for the past 10 months. He even said I could have whatever I want!!! If you know Jake, you know this is big because he has an opinion about these kinds of things for some reason. He's the reason we have what we have now! So on top of getting my house ready to be packed on Monday, I get to buy new stuff for the bedroom. Which do you think will take priority???

Old Friends

Today we had a reconnect with an old friend. It was one of those days when you realize the effort it takes to keep in touch with people is worthwhile. Holly and I have lived about 20 minutes from each other for about a year and a half. A month before I'm set to move out of Fort Mill, we finally managed to get together. Pretty pathetic, I know! I've known Holly since 1996 - I can't believe it's been over 10 years since I joined Life Action. I was Holly's sister's teacher my 2nd year on the road and her family is the reason I ended up at North Greenville where I would meet Jake. So big thanks to the Boitnotts!! I can't believe that Holly and I are both mothers - me with 2 and her with 1 and another on the way! The picture above is Bailey and Elijah on the slide at Chick Fil A. They were cute playing together except for the occasional spat over Elijah's cool car and Elijah's biting incident! We did get a good laugh out of a little girl falling over a high chair.

Do you ever sit and think about the 'what ifs' and how different life could've been if you had made a different decision at any point in your life? My 'what ifs' usually end up with me giving thanks to the Lord for knowing exactly where I needed to be and when I needed to be there. Without His hand on my life and being obedient at the right times, the road to where I am today would've been much more difficult than I had already made it! Just thinking about the road the Lord used to get me to SC always leaves me amazed at just how good and patient He has been toward me.