Surprises! Not always great ones....

Interesting that something popped up that led me to my blog page the very day that I have a reminder on my calendar to post. I seem to forget if I don't put a reminder on my calendar. Busy, busy, busy, all the time. I joined a new craft group at church making memory boxes for moms who have lost their babies. One of the ladies is a nurse at the hospital and takes them there to give out. They are much appreciated by the moms. I have some ideas to make them a little more special. There are only a few of us in the group and new ideas seem to be appreciated. We came up with several this week when we got together. The boxes are big enough for a few photographs, the footprints and handprints, cards they get in the hospital and at home, and the clothes they wear in the photos. The nurse takes the photos for them. They are black and white so you can't see that the babies are kind of blue. It's sad but very special to the families. My niece is getting married in two weeks and I'm planning to make a beach themed guest book for people to sign and leave a short message if they want to. I've asked a friend to help me with it. She is so creative. I'll be working on that Friday and Saturday. No time before then. I have something to do every evening this week. Money University on Monday night for 4 weeks. Hope that will help me figure out how to survive and thrive on our income. Tuesday is our monthly Young Living Essential Oils business meeting. I really would like to grow that business by helping people to understand the benefits of using the oils and other products to be healthier in this age of so many chemicals and medications. We start a new ladies Bible study this Wednesday at church. I really enjoy those studies, so adding that to my calendar for several weeks. This has been a bad car week for me. Petey was in the shop last Saturday and then Thursday on my way home, he overheated. I was saying many prayers all the way to the first car repair place I could find. They couldn't really find anything wrong with it, put in more coolant and I drove home. We took it to our regular repair place yesterday afternoon. Just picked it up a while ago. If anything else goes wrong any time soon, we'll be parking it and being a one car family for a while. I've been thinking about riding the train to and from work again anyway. I also need the exercise of walking the 17 blocks to my office in the mornings, 4 blocks to the other office at lunch time and 21 blocks back to the train in the afternoon. It's cooling off a bit....maybe... so I should be able to do it without melting too much. I don't really care if I get sweaty on the way home, but don't want to be that way first thing at work. Not that I see anyone. Rarely see either boss. They leave me work to do and I do it. Well, another project for today is in the works, so guess I'd better get to it. Another one of my nieces is bringing some bags of my sister's clothes (Tina, the one who died January 1st) over so I can help go through them. I took three bags to Safe Place for Battered Women back in January. That's the plan for most of the rest too. I just want to be sure we don't overlook something that might have gotten thrown in the bags, and keep a few of the special things. Until next time, prayers all is well with you. Blessings, Lori