8 Dollar Difference

FINALLY! ! ! ! I've got this child to
pay attention to a little doll at night time.
I've tried and tried, but she just pushes it out of the way.
Now the other night I decided to give it a try once
again and in the morning she
had plastered that thing up against
her little face. Now she has it every night
and we have to wash it frequently, due to the fact it smells
like slobber because she "eats" the poor pink doll.

His very own pink chair

Now allow me to tell you a short story before I dig into my

overwhelming piles of laundry that consists of 70 some odd 

socks, along with many other things, my dishes that have dried 

banana, my child's britches that need changed, yaddy yadda

yadda. Yesterday was one of those days. . . where everything sort

of has a gray tint to it, I didn't have enough patience, easily frustrated

annoyed at the little things. . . Josh text me and wondered how I was.

after I let him know he says," maybe we will run to Flobby Lobby after work"

He of course knows I want to live there ( by the way, they have an app now 

that you can download onto your phone and get 40 % off of things

that are NOT on sale. . . you can use one per day) So after work he comes

home, we feed kiddos, load up a bag and go to Hobby Lobby. 

I dilly dally around with Olive in there for awhile while he & Bode-man 

go to Dicks. ( much MUCHLY more man-ish) Then we go to Marshalls.

Now. . . being the over-protective mom that I am, I sometimes see people

in public stare (or what I think is staring) at Sister. I usually let it go

it doesn't honestly bother me that much. . . but I noticed this lady would

look at her whenever we seen her in the store. . . then we are in line to 

check out and she is in front of us. . . and again I'm thinking that she is 

looking at her. She pays for her stuff, steps back and looks at me, hands me 

a Marshall's card that has 8$ on it, leans down to look at Olivia, then kindly 

tells me what beautiful children we have. Now, it was only 8 dollars, but it 

changed my world from a dismal gray to dancing colors, singing birds, & 

lovely people. It wasn't the money, but the sincerity I saw in her eyes, I 

very nearly wept on the spot. I felt ashamed at my thoughts, and thankful 

to be rescued from my self inflicted negative spiral. God does that, He rescues

us just when we need it. The world isn't all bad. The beauty is in the little 

common every day things. Somedays you just have to have the patience to 

look for them.