Simple Service

I was encouraged today by a wonderful friend and her generosity in giving up....time! My usual headache came back this morning and she was at my door at 8 am to watch the kids....it takes her 40 minutes to get to my house. I was overwhelmed by her love for me and was reminded of the verses in the Bible where it tells older women to basically teach younger women how to care for our families, life life and love our husbands. There is no better way to accomplish this than through pure and sweet, simple service. The kind of service that doesn't tell me what I'm doing wrong or say "yah, i went through that too....just the cross you have to bare" or the kind of service that seeks to correct - let's face it....it's hard to come by. She played with my kids and delighted in them....toasted bagels and served up orange juice....washed the dishes and read fairy tales for five hours of her morning. I was able to rest, shower....and just have some much needed company.

I think trin did about 6 puzzles back to back - that girl is obsessed! Brady wasn't doing so well this morning (going on 5 days now of monkey noises, running into walls and just being mean spirited really)....just very out of sorts but Lori handled him with grace which I was very appreciative off - Tristan loved her too. Anyways, all this to say that my prayer is that when my kids are grown, I hope that I will remember the young mothers and seek to encourage them and to serve them...to take meals and to watch babies...to give out *free date nights* to young couples - instead of having the attitude "I already did that once....it's your turn."