Paying It Forward

We went to the grocery store to get needed items for our assigned dishes for Thanksgiving.  Like so many times, we are too tired/hungry after doing the actual shopping that we went to a drive-thru to grab some dinner. We were waiting behind a silver SUV in the drive-thru line for a few minutes and then it drove away.  We then proceeded to the drive-thru window where we were informed that the car ahead of us had paid for our meal, and that the generous person asked the cashier to relay the message to "pay it forward".  We were in complete and utter shock, we both have heard of this happening to people before but have never been on the receiving end.  We then told the cashier to please allow us to pay for the persons meal behind us.

It felt appropriate to let her enjoy a french fry from our free meal...she was a very satisfied customer!

Free food!

The Hubs and I were discussing the impact of such a simple act.  That person completely made our day, I'm sure I'll think of that act often...it was so unexpected and so generous for a complete stranger to pay for our dinner.  The person behind us hopefully felt the love from us, and all of the employees in that fast food restaurant thought that the whole thing was so cool.  We talked to about 4 of the employees there and they were grinning from ear to ear- all from some sweet person paying for our dinner!  I seriously cannot get over how awesome that experience was.  To the stranger that paid for our food at Rush's tonight- Thank you for reminding me that there is so much good in the world, there really is.  Pay it forward people!

Thankful Thursday

Precious little Lo yawning

I am so grateful for so many, many things but today I am most thankful for pictures.  I have always loved photos, I think that it goes back to my Grandma Hazel...she could have had a very successful career with the paparazzi!  I cannot imagine not being able to capture little moments in time with pictures.  Pre-baby I loved to sit down on days off of work and thoughtfully put pictures to paper to make beautiful scrapbooks to enjoy.  These days I love looking at the recent folders on my desktop looking at pictures of my baby who is growing way too fast.  I look at pictures from just a month or two ago and I think my heart will just break because I miss that teeny tiny baby and she'll never be that little again.  But then I think about how much I enjoy her now that she is starting to scoot backwards and jabbers all day (mostly da-da and ba-ba).  I also love looking at my wedding pictures, it feels like another lifetime because it feels so long ago.  Anywho, I'm not sentimental with many objects, but if my house were on fire the only "things" I would try to save are my photos, my precious memories.

Thankful Thursday

I'm back with another Thankful Thursday. Here are a few things that I'm grateful for today-

*The means to not only feed our little family but to share that blessing wih others. There is nothing better than sharing a meal with someone.

*Kleenex & Infant Tylenol- our sweet girl hasn't been feeling like herself. She got a little runny nose and her bottom teeth continue to take their time coming in...I'm grateful for tissue so she's not a snot nosed baby and Tylenol to take the edge off of teething.

*Lastly, we've been getting a little tired of the walls here in the "rental home"(it'll always be Nana and Papa's house in my mind no matter how long we're here!). Seriously, all of the rooms, trim and doors are this dingy cream color and it feels a little like an asylum sometimes. I'm grateful for creativity, resourcefulness, paint and a little elbow grease. Because of all of those things our living room is in its was out of the cream! Not pictured- a painted bathroom vanity that needed freshening, a bathroom that has been rid its old wallpaper and has a fresh coat of paint, and paint in the guest bath.

Thankful Thursday

It's November which means that it's time for a whole lot of gratitude. I love this time of year and all that it brings- but I especially love the calm, slowing of November...the calm before the storm!

Here are some things that I am grateful for:

*Family- they take the cake, let's just get that straight right off the bat! I have the best family and I am so grateful for each of them. I am constantly amazed by the love and support that they show me, the Hubs and especially Lo.

*Holidays- it gives us a good excuse to go over the top with ordinary things. I love decorating for them, preparing for them weeks before and cooking up special dishes for them. Of course all of it is done to make special memories.

*Internet access- I don't know how I would make it through the day without the Internet. Go tell that to 10 year old me, it didn't even exist then! From checking news/weather, getting directions to a location, connecting with people via social media/e-mail to looking up recipes for dinner. It sure makes life easy!

2 Month Check Up

Lo had her 2 month check up and she looks perfectly healthy.  She had to have 2 shots and had one by mouth.  She wasn't thrilled but slept a lot for the rest of the day.

Here are her stats-

Height: 23.5 inches (85.9%)

Weight: 13.1 lbs (83.6%)

Head Circumference: 40.5 cm (94.9%)

Since we apparently grow 'em big around here she has pretty much grown out of her 0-3 month outfits.  Which means she grew out of one of my absolute favorite ensembles, her Ralph Lauren pink striped dress with monogrammed bloomers.  Hubby took several pictures of her wearing it for the very last time.

She also had  her hip ultrasound this week (standard for breech babies) and everything looks great.  She will go back again at 6 months.  Talk about feeling thankful for a healthy little one, we had to go to the children'shospital for the ultrasound...too sad.  There were so many children in the waiting room that looked so frail or came in in wheelchairs, I am so very grateful for her health.

Thankful Thursday

The Hubs and I

I am thankful for:

*Visiting Teaching- this is a program in our church where women visit and share an uplifting message with other women once a month.  It is through this program that I have had the privilege of getting to know ladies that I may have otherwise not had the opportunity to know.  I especially love my companion...she is a saint.  Visiting with these women has become one of the highlights of my month.

*Really, really good friends- you know, the ones that are pretty much family.

*Opportunity- the Hubs and I have had a lot of new opportunities placed in our path and I am grateful.

Waterproofing

It poured rain Thursday all through the night.  We went to Hubby's manager's wedding at an adorable Victorian home here in Horse Country.  We all got seated and it started storming again!  We came home once again to a leaking skylight...not a settling feeling.  We saw from the weather reports that it would clear up by Saturday morning.  Hubby got on the roof Saturday morning and assessed the situation.  Evidently someone tried to fix it before and used untreated wood, the rotting wood seemed to be the source of the problem so we were off to Lowe's to get supplies.  By late afternoon all was well in the world because our home was waterproof again and Hubby was off the roof.  A word to the wise, tar does not come off easily.  His clothes were trashed from this project and I had to scrub and clip and nip to get most of the tar off of his hands/nails.  I am so thankful to have a husband that is so handy.  He really is amazing!

Necessity is the mother of all invention- while he was on the roof we used a rope and shopping bag to get tools and other supplies up and down. 

It's amazing how things work out- the rope that we used was purchased and never used before this day...who knows why we bought it!  While at Lowe's we couldn't find the right type of screws for the project, I looked down and there was a box of the exact screws we had been looking for completely out of place and just for us.  Our neighbors told us when we moved in that if we ever needed a ladder that we could borrow one, we were able to get just what we needed from them Saturday morning.  Not to mention the fact that we came home Thursday night, that was not the plan.  Had we not come home, I'm sure that we would have had some type of water damage on our kitchen floors.  Too many blessings to count!