Well, as many of you know.....we are now living in Canadian, temporarily for the summer! We were here less than 1 day and I already had Dish Network ready to install my T.V. I don't think Jaylee would have made it all summer without Max and Ruby! Ok, Ok, yes I needed TV too! Yesterday we made a fast trip to Amarillo, (it's like going to Abilene from Munday), to get some things to fix the vents on our trailer. For some, odd, stinky, reason, the vents were not working properly on the top of our trailer, so you would run the a/c and it would smell like sewage. Well, not only am I pregnant and hormonal, but I also can't stand bad smells.....so that was priority number ONE of going yesterday! We returned last night around 10:30 and Jeremy worked until midnight to get it them all to work properly! Now both a/c's work and it feels lovely in my house!
We also had to make a stop to return a TV that we had just purchased Sunday evening at Wal-mart. Being the bargain shopper I am, I settled for a display model TV on clearance instead of paying an extra $20 for the brand new, better brand, same size TV. Well, we get to our trailer Sunday evening and as I turned on a movie for Jaylee yesterday morning, it made this loud, obnoxious buzzing sound! Grrr!!! So that was priority number TWO of going yesterday was to get a different TV. As we encountered the service desk and Wal-Mart, one employee was very willing to work with us, being that we had the TV less than 24 hours, and the other employee was "Nope- sorry! Clearance means AS IS!" Well, persistent and pushy me insisted on them doing something, and they finally called a manager and she was going to do an even exchange... which was perfectly fine! I just wanted my TV.... I didn't need the box or the manual... I just wanted a TV! Well...as luck would have it...they don't carry that model anymore (DUH! That's why it was clearanced!) and I finally walked away and let Jeremy deal with it. The lady finally returned our money to us and my husband went back to the electronics department to buy the original one we set out to buy and paid the extra $20. So, my advice to all is sometimes it's just not worth saving a few extra dollars! That was a major pain in my rather large buttocks at the moment--- so don't always shop the red tags!
We then met up with our good friend who Jeremy works with here in Canadian. For protection, I'll remain anonymous with his name, but it was his birthday. We told him to meet us for dinner and we wound up meeting at Red Lobster. We had previously met at Cavendar's b/c Jeremy wanted to buy him something for his birthday, and he is rather picky, so we just let him pick out his present. We spent a little more than we intended, but something told me inside that there was a reason we bought those boots for him. As we started to dine at Red Lobster, he began to talk about how much he enjoyed Sunday lunch with our family and how he missed Jerry being there. (He admires Jerry--and had come home with Jeremy this past weekend--went to church and had Sunday lunch at Judy's house with us). As he went on to talk about his enjoyment of our family, he said how much he appreciated us buying us those boots. I told him that we appreciated him being such a good friend to Jeremy, etc. He then went on to tell me how his own father, whom he lives with, did not even wish him happy birthday. Then he then said that his own mother didn't even call to wish him a happy birthday. I wanted to burst out in tears right there.
God slapped me in the face so hard. I take so many things for granted, and I don't even realize it. I recently had a birthday to where I was spoiled rotten with many birthday blessings. (See post- My Many Birthday Blessings). I have all those people who went out of their way on my birthday to make me feel special, and yet, he had hardly anyone. I look at our life and see how Jeremy and I both have two mothers who go completely out of their way, bend their backs over, to make our birthday's special. And to not even have your mom or dad tell you Happy Birthday..... it breaks my heart. So, after having this conversation, I felt very blessed to have bought those boots for him and take him out to dinner. He needed us yesterday because he had no one. I am glad that God put us in his life and are able to bless him as others are a blessing to us.
"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which god prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them"
Ephesians 2:10
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