Tid-bits...

Wow! Another week has disappeared...where oh where does the time really go??? It seems like I wake up one day and it's Monday and the next it's Friday! My Grandparents were so right when they said the older you get the faster time goes :D (Mmmm....I wonder what other advice they've given me that is going to turn out to be true :D)

So, what did I do with my time this week....well.....

* I spent my days directing three-year olds on using kind words, helping others, and sharing!

* I opened my Bible and concentrated on studying the book of Esther...and found it led to some scriptures my heart really needed to read!

* My Miss Susy was back...so, for lunch this week I had...Lasagna, Chicken Alfredo, Chicken noodle soup & tuna sandwich :D (I am so grateful she shares her cooking talents with me!)

* My nephew was in town visiting and taking his placement tests for college...it was good seeing him!

* My sister had me over for dinner one night...(Got to LOVE those invitations out :D)

* Met with two amazing sisters-in-Christ for some bible study/fellowship time...another great blessing to my heart!

* Oh, and the fun things...like paying the bills, stacking wood on the porch, feeding the animals...watering....cleaning the house, (you know the things that make life spin :D)

And, then there was this....I hate to share it, but I MUST! There's a little elderly neighbor lady down the road, that we rent pasture from in the Summer...She's pretty much all alone here, her kids live in the Big Cities...(Eugene & Seattle)...Anyway, she's had some health problems and hasn't been able to get out and about...so, I check her mail every day and do this & that as she needs it.
And, with the help usually there is a specific WAY things have to be done..letters cannot be mailed from the home mailbox, or the drop-off boxes at the Post Office, but must be mailed inside. Sometimes I can't help but smile..thinking I too one day will be giving specific directions to those helping me (NO...Mr. PPRM I AM NOT already like that :D ha, ha...) Anyway, I was leaving work on Thursday and my cell phone rings...it is BJ...


"Are you still at work, honey"
"No, I'm just leaving..."
"Well, I'm kind of in a bind, and I need your help"
"Okay, what can I do?"
"Well my eyes are still not focusing right, and so I can't drive, and I need some cigarettes".

(Oh my...I so did NOT want to hear that request)...NEVER in my LIFE have I bought a pack of cigarettes....in fact, I've bought Copenhagen before for my brother, alcohol before for a brother-in-law, (Neither of those I relished doing either...) But NEVER cigarettes!!! What should I say, what could I say...I grew up with smoking parents (Praising God they have now stopped)....I know how smokers are...like any addiction...they NEED that in their system.

"Okay, I'll stop".
"Well, you have to go to the cigarette store, it's by Mailing Made Easy...and I want two packs of Ultra Light 100's"

What in the world they are I totally don't know...but, I head to the store...hoping there is NO ONE I know watching or in the store itself. What an odd feeling to open the door and step inside. Of course, I ask the counter girl for exactly what I've been told, to which she replies, "What brand, Marlboros, Kool's, etc."..."I don't know...I just know they have to be Ultra Light 100's"....finally, I just say, "Give me the cheapest ones???".

My whole drive home, I still cannot believe Miss Tammy was buying cigarettes at the Cigarette Store????? And, thinking all along, that when I get there she is probably going to tell me I got the wrong kind, and I'll have to go through it all over again....
But,THANKFULLY they were fine!!! Whew!!!

Everyone I shared the story with found it funny...and to all my whining the reply was always the same "YOU should of just said "NO".....and, they were right, but I just couldn't do it. So, now, my prayer is that she gets to feeling better soon...and that I wasn't spotted going in & out of THAT store!!!

Most of all...I'm so glad that when I'm that age, and someone is having to "help" me...they won't have to go by cigarettes!!! And, even though I was in the store, I'm praying that above all others could see Christ in me!

So, that was my WEEK! I'm hoping each of you had a great one...and that your weekends are filled with ALL things good! Sweet blessings!