Thank Him for the Delays in Life

Home! It feels so good to be here! It's been good day and a good evening but a tiring time overall. let me tell you about it.

We took the children fishing this morning. They had a blast! I will share pictures on both blogs when I get them off the camera. We were all hot and tired when we made it home.

After a shower we headed to the big city to do a little birthday shopping for Cornbread. Now when I say "a little" I meant that we would get it all done but not go overboard. So I had several places I wanted to go. Ya'll. Let me tell you. I went to one store. One! It was Toys R Us. I found a few toys I liked. Then we just browsed a few minutes.

Well, we've been on the lookout for a playhouse of some kind for the girls. This store had a Victorian playhouse that blows up and has the the little motorized pump attached (like the big waterslides and ballpits you can rent). It was on clearance cheap cheap! FlowerChild's birthday is coming up in June. So we bought one. Then we waited for them to bring it out. They couldn't find it. So the guy went to look again. Then another one helped him. Then the manager got in on it. The computer said they had one but it wasn't there. She called to every store within 2 or 3 hours from here. At one point we thought she had found one. Their computer said they had them in stock. But when they checked there were none there. The store employees were awesome trying to track down the item for us. But we used up our shopping time waiting.

But there was a cool perk. We saw a young girl working that we recognized but could not place. Well, she recognized us too. Immediately she said years ago we taught her in a children's discipleship class at a large church in that city. She remembered lots of details. She also remembered our son. She even mentioned a necklace I used to wear, something about a picture of my little girl. That was one of two things. It was either a locket I used to wear that The GuitarMan gave me with his picture. . Or it was one that had the name of our daughter we miscarried. The FisherMan and I had matching ones we wore for a long time. It was comforting to both of us. At any rate, I was simply blown away that she would immediately recognize us and remember so much! We only got to speak for a minute and she was called away. But it felt good to know we had made an impact.

So we still have some party supplies to get. We still don't have a playhouse. But I am thankful despite the long wait we had and despite the fact we still have shopping to do. For if we hadn't had to wait for so long we never would have known that a little girl who is all grown up now still remembers the couple who taught her about Jesus. God is really cool that way!