July was quite a busy month. Blogging just had to go down on the priority list. I’m glad to know that some of you missed my postings. I know I missed writing them. I hope to keep up now.
First of all, thanks to everyone who has inquired about my knee. It is much, much better now. I only have minor pain from the two inch heals I wore to church yesterday because the flats just didn’t look right! Vanity, vanity! I went to physical therapy a few times and learned what exercises to do at home each day to strengthen the muscles around the patella (knee cap). I’m also going to start a walking program as soon as the Spirit moves me (I think He’s trying to move me but I weigh too much! (Ha! Ha!). Okay, reality is that I don’t make the time. But I must, I must, I must. I do not want to hobble around the rest of my life with arthritic knees. I’d start tomorrow but there’s a tropical storm coming that is probably going to be a category one hurricane before morning. Maybe I’ll start walking this evening after it cools down a bit. Of course, I need to do all the laundry up and make some bags of ice for the cooler, just in case we don’t have electricity tomorrow. Oh, I could think of a billion excuses, so I guess I’ll just knock it off and go this evening.
Speaking of the storm, the grocery stores and gas stations are crazy busy. I couldn’t find ‘D’ size batteries at Kroger but decided not to run around looking for them with three excited kids; wasting the expensive gasoline I just filled up in the car. The batteries in the good flashlight are pretty fresh anyway. Besides, we had a minor catastrophe at the store that distracted me from any concern about batteries. Let me set this up…This morning, Hubby gave the three-year old granddaughter a precious little pink Bible some friends from church gave him over the weekend. Their daughter had outgrown it. As you may recall from a couple of posts back that she keeps taking off with my Bible. Well, she has carried this little girl Bible around all day, including into the grocery store. As we pulled away from the parking lot to head home, I hear a panicked cry from the back seat. You guessed it. She left her Bible in the grocery cart. She put it on the bottom part of the cart and the checker didn’t notice it. The bagger dude loaded my groceries into another cart so I didn’t notice it either. We immediately did a u-turn and headed back to the store all the while listening to sobs between these heartbreaking words, “That was my special Bible! My papaw gave it to me!” I kept trying to reassure her that we would find it. We must have looked in every grocery cart in the parking lot and in the store but we couldn't find it. The people working the check out counter didn’t see it and the customer service desk didn’t have it. I left my name and phone number and asked them to call me if anyone turned it in to them. Then we got busy praying that someone would find it and give it to the lady in Customer Service. The two older children informed me that they had already prayed about it six times! After we had been home for about a half hour, we got the phone call. We were singing thanks to Jesus all the way back to the store. After returning to the car, the toddler wanted to know why the people in the store didn’t sing with us. That was hard to explain. I have no idea why they were not as overjoyed as we were at this answered prayer! I love my grandchildren so much!
Well, I better get off here and prepare to hunker down for Edouard. What an odd name for a storm! And is that the correct way to spell 'hunker'? I’ll try to do more catching up later. Perhaps the electricity will stay on tomorrow. Thanks for reading!
First of all, thanks to everyone who has inquired about my knee. It is much, much better now. I only have minor pain from the two inch heals I wore to church yesterday because the flats just didn’t look right! Vanity, vanity! I went to physical therapy a few times and learned what exercises to do at home each day to strengthen the muscles around the patella (knee cap). I’m also going to start a walking program as soon as the Spirit moves me (I think He’s trying to move me but I weigh too much! (Ha! Ha!). Okay, reality is that I don’t make the time. But I must, I must, I must. I do not want to hobble around the rest of my life with arthritic knees. I’d start tomorrow but there’s a tropical storm coming that is probably going to be a category one hurricane before morning. Maybe I’ll start walking this evening after it cools down a bit. Of course, I need to do all the laundry up and make some bags of ice for the cooler, just in case we don’t have electricity tomorrow. Oh, I could think of a billion excuses, so I guess I’ll just knock it off and go this evening.
Speaking of the storm, the grocery stores and gas stations are crazy busy. I couldn’t find ‘D’ size batteries at Kroger but decided not to run around looking for them with three excited kids; wasting the expensive gasoline I just filled up in the car. The batteries in the good flashlight are pretty fresh anyway. Besides, we had a minor catastrophe at the store that distracted me from any concern about batteries. Let me set this up…This morning, Hubby gave the three-year old granddaughter a precious little pink Bible some friends from church gave him over the weekend. Their daughter had outgrown it. As you may recall from a couple of posts back that she keeps taking off with my Bible. Well, she has carried this little girl Bible around all day, including into the grocery store. As we pulled away from the parking lot to head home, I hear a panicked cry from the back seat. You guessed it. She left her Bible in the grocery cart. She put it on the bottom part of the cart and the checker didn’t notice it. The bagger dude loaded my groceries into another cart so I didn’t notice it either. We immediately did a u-turn and headed back to the store all the while listening to sobs between these heartbreaking words, “That was my special Bible! My papaw gave it to me!” I kept trying to reassure her that we would find it. We must have looked in every grocery cart in the parking lot and in the store but we couldn't find it. The people working the check out counter didn’t see it and the customer service desk didn’t have it. I left my name and phone number and asked them to call me if anyone turned it in to them. Then we got busy praying that someone would find it and give it to the lady in Customer Service. The two older children informed me that they had already prayed about it six times! After we had been home for about a half hour, we got the phone call. We were singing thanks to Jesus all the way back to the store. After returning to the car, the toddler wanted to know why the people in the store didn’t sing with us. That was hard to explain. I have no idea why they were not as overjoyed as we were at this answered prayer! I love my grandchildren so much!
Well, I better get off here and prepare to hunker down for Edouard. What an odd name for a storm! And is that the correct way to spell 'hunker'? I’ll try to do more catching up later. Perhaps the electricity will stay on tomorrow. Thanks for reading!
3 comments:
Having heard the sobbing cries of the toddler before, I could just "feel" the heartbreak in your words. My eyes actually teared up. It's sweet that she's attached to the bible because her papaw gave it to her. Glad to hear it the story had a happy ending. Now, do you think she'll really leave your bible alone or just put yours and hers together some where?
S, I don't know if she'll leave my Bible alone or not. We shall see. I think she likes the tissue thin pages. She is very careful with it, though, and hasn't torn it at all. I have explained to her that now she has her own Bible, she can read it instead of Grandma's. She also said she was going to leave it in the car from now on so she doesn't forget it! Good lessons sometimes hurt.
:Im so glad you take care of "your" "my" family so well! Remember when I would call you at least a week before,the storm got on the map so you would be prepared? In your own way you prepared me, let God handle it,you were doing what needed done there so all that was left for me to do was pray,¬ worry,since I was thousand miles away! I assume you made it thru another "storm" without me? I babysit with Hunter &Rylee all day at there house,wish I could add "B" "B" "Mc" too that list!! I cryied, I laughed I prayed : before I found out how the story ended. How thoughtfull off that family to give her such a precious gift"their grown daughter" bible?
Give everyone a biiig hug and kiss for me::MOM GRANDMA &GRTGRANDMA
PAPAW said Hi!!
glad your knee is doing better, I read that there is a SPEcialist in your town,the "greatist" I~ll get the info later. I will see you soon! Got to get some apps. out of the way.
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