Recap of weekend and Monday

Good Afternoon Sweet Friends,

How was your Monday??

 and how was your weekend???

Our weekend was good, relaxing, restful,  rainy, and productive
 in an accomplishing sort of way, not so much a work way.

We still haven't gotten to mow our yard cause of the rain, 
 course, we so need the rain, so don't want to complain about
 that, but it is starting to look a lil like a jungle out there!!  lol

We watched "you've got mail" on Friday evening as we
 exercised,  and that is one of our favorite movies,  it is so
 cute,  and Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are just so great
 together.  Have never seen a movie by either of them
 that I didn't like.  I just love Meg Ryans perkiness!! lol

Then much to our thrill.........we finally got into see the
 lady,  guess I should say young lady, at the hotel to talk 
about the wedding plans.  Finally!!  Yea!!

Have to say tho, that.............

I was stunned...........we had only emailed back and forth 

about a dozen times, and in my mind's eye I had pictured a

 lady probably close to my age, since she said, her Father was

 gravely ill,  and then later passed away. Usually that would be

 about the age when one would normally lose a parent, and

she had said he was gravely ill,  that doesn't seem like term-

inology a young person would use.  My heart had gone out

 to her tho, because at any age it is hard to lose a parent.

I had told her we would pray for she and her family, and

we did!  Then we heard he passed away and I told her

again we would be praying and sent our condolences
 via email.

Turns out she is this beautiful vivacious, sweet,  young  lil
 blonde gal,  probably about 30 I would say,  and as soon as 

she knew who I was she hugged me, and said thank you so much

 for being so patient with my situation, and we had an instantaneous

 bond, and now my heart was with her more than before even, 

 I felt a sense of shock at her age,  and as she walked away for 

a moment I said to my Dee, is that her, still not believing my eyes,

 and she said yes, and then I felt a.sense of horror for her, that 

she has lost her Dad at such a young age. For some reason I

 felt like crying because she was in between the ages of my

 children, I guess,  and I could only imagine how they would feel.

  and I was thankful...........thankful for the fruit of the spirit of 

patience and gentleness, that God gives us as believers. 

 Thankful that I wasn't so worried about our Wedding plans

 and our circumstances, that I let that override the

compassion in my heart I felt for her!!

  God is good Folks!!

At another time, shortly after meeting, she said something

about that she would probably be there the night of the

wedding helping out,  and I said excitedly, oh, you'll be 

here, and she said yes, mam,  Lord willing!!  She is also

 a Southern Belle from Georgia and makes me wonder
if she isn't also a fellow believer in Christ.

We had a very delightful and successful meeting with her,

  and let me tell you God used her to show us favor once again.

  She was so incredibly helpful, and was full of great suggestions

and is not charging us for the use of one room, and then she

 is trying to get the fee waved on another area for us, and 

we never asked her to.............she just said she was gonna

 try cause she knew we were on a budget,  

(she knew our story as well.)

As we parted,  I asked her how she was doing,  and she

showed me her dad's dog tags, she had them around

her neck, this time I was struggling not to cry,  cause the

 one thing I have of my dad's is his dog tags, (another long

story)  and I asked about how her Mom was,  and she

 said she is having a really hard time, and began to weep, 

saying they were married for 40 years.

Again feeling a sense of kinship with her, since we ourselves

 have been married  for 40 years; I began to weep as well.

 She said, the house is so empty,  and we sensed that was

 very hard for her too, since she lived in Fl. and her Mom

 lives in Ga., and again we told her we would pray especially, 

 for her Mom.  She thanked us and seemed genuinely pleased, 

 She said I'm sorry I did mean to make anyone cry,  and

 we said, Ohhh, honey don't you worry about that!

I look forward to what the Lord is up to in this chance

relationship,  she really seems like such a precious

young lady.  So it will be fun working with her.

Today Mr. Sweepy and I have been cleaning,  altho

he does the sweeping,  I still have to change his cleaning

clothes and move things out of his way ............and

of course, put them back.

But it is like having a helper,  while he is sweeping I 

am able to do other lil details,  that I might not have

time for otherwise.  He is truly a blessing!

Also rearranged the family room furniture today too,

to try and get a lil more of a summer look............

took some before shots,  and will take some after

shots once I change around some of my accessories.

Hopefully, can show you some pics next week.


Had to come back and tell you that we saw a really
 heartwarming true story tonight that came from
 where else...........Netflix. 
 It is called "Something the Lord Made". 
 It is another Dr. movie but it is really good,  and will leave
 you crying, or at least wanting to............keep your hanky 
closeby just in case!!  We both highly recommend it!

Well, Sweet Folks..................

Glad you stopped by...............

Hope you are glad you did too!!

Remember.......  be kind and patient with those you come

 in contact with because every person you meet is fighting their 

own battle.............. and in the end you will be glad you did!!  

Love, Hugs and 

Kind and Patient  Blessings,

Nellie


Couldn't believe it.............when hubby went out to put
his stuff in the car this morning, our next door neighbor 
came over and said hey, someone is gonna be mowing 
our yards soon.  He should be here soon,  I have seen 
your car has been gone everyday and figured you must 
have gotten a new job,  so hired this guy today!!
What a blessing that was cause I told you it was
starting to look like a jungle.


 Hubby has been mowing his lawn too,  for a while now, 
 and we were so happy to be able to do something for
 him for a change cause he has done so many nice things 
us every since he moved in about 5 years or so ago.
He has been incredibly good to us many many times.
He, his wife and his daughter are all such sweeties,
and  we sure will hate to see them go!


God is Good,  All the Tme............