'Tis better to give than to receive

I never realized how true this was until last night. A group of us from church delivered Thanksgiving food and other groceries to some needy families in the area last night. I think there were 27 families in all. My small group took food to 2 families. One of the families was truly, truly grateful. You could tell my the tears in their eyes. The couple has 4 little girls age 6 weeks to 4 or 5 years old. They had just moved to the area recently and neither of them work right now as they have no transportation. There is no phone in the house. I never realized how blessed I am to have the things that I've got. This was a family that wasn't going to have Thanksgiving until we stopped by. I feel so blessed to have been a part of their happiness. And to think that I almost didn't go.

Take a few moments to look around you. Notice those in need. Help them if you can. You will be blessed more than you'll ever know.

What's the point?

I don't get it at all. Don't see the appeal. Why on this earth does someone want to buy a Hummer for her husband without knowing if he really even wants one? Even better, why does someone want to buy one at all? Just seems like a big waste of money to me. And I have to sit here and listen to it. Gripe over.

I started practice files for MT work this last week. I'm really excited about the work. I'm shooting for March to be out of this office job and either in a part time office job and part time MT or full time MT and subbing some days.

So looking forward to Thanksgiving. My parents, grandmother, brother and sister-in-law will be here next Wednesday. I can't wait! We'll send Clayton to their hotel room Thursday after he gets home from work so he can sleep while we cook.

We've been quite the busy bees this week. I spent all day Saturday with my friend doing some shopping. Too bad it wasn't for Christmas. Just general stuff that we need. Sunday was church. Monday, I got a phone call from said firend (ha-that sounds southern! and yes, i realize it's misspelled). Clayton and I were planning on going to her daughter's soccer game that night. Her husband wanted to know if we wanted to go out to eat with them before the game. Now, this is not so unusual, except that she and her husband are separated (for the moment...looking good right now for them to get back together) and we've only done one other thing with the two of them (and their children). I was excited. We also got together with them last night to eat. (Way too much eating out this week). Her husband offered us some centipede grass that he had cut from around the sidewalk and driveway, so we went to her house to pick that up and ended up staying around talking. I'm really hoping that this turns out to be a good thing...that they get back together and that we all do stuff together often. It's really good to have IRL friends to do stuff with as a family. I didn't realize how much so until this week.

Now that I've caught you all up on my life (sorta, anyway), I've got to get to preparing Mission Friends activities for tonight. We're making tambourines and an imitation patchwork quilt. Should be interesting.

Good news!

I had an email waiting for me when Clayton got the computer up and running yesterday. Not just any email either. This was from a lady who owns and operates a medical transcription company. She's interested in hiring me if I'm interested in working for her! I'm definitely interested. My only drawback is that I won't be able to do anything until around 8 PM-after Andrew goes to bed. I hope to eventually be able to transcribe part time and work outside the home part time. Maybe get to where I can transcribe full time 3-4 days a week and substitute teach the other 1-2 days and take classes for a teaching certificate. The good news is that they'll 'hold my hand' a good while-until I get the hang of it and have about 98% accuracy. Yipes! That's pretty accurate! I'm confident I can do it, though. The account she would need me on is flexible-I could choose how many files and what days to work. I could do just one a night if that's what I wanted. (That would probably be best to begin with anyway). I'm hoping to have more concrete information from her this afternoon when I get home.