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Yesterday the girls at the store talked about an interesting customer who was in the store the other day. No one knew her but all remembered her because of her strange requests. She wanted certain spices in small containers poured together into larger containers. It’s not unusual for somebody to ask to have large containers broken down into smaller ones but the opposite has never happened. Anyway as the cashiers discussed this customer on Saturday they realized that none of them had checked her out. Furthermore, the customer had been seen going in and out of the front door numerous times and was wearing a long, bulky sort of coat. They even searched around the store to see if she had put any of her “custom” packages back on the shelf but they never found anything. Looks like maybe she was filling her pockets. Oh well. Whaddaya do?

Later in the afternoon a lady came in asking for the manager. I talked to her and she said she had been in the store with her son in the morning. She lived about 45 minutes away from the store and when she got back she was going through her groceries and found a candy bar that she had not put in her cart or paid for. She realized her five-year-old little boy had stolen it. She told me that she had come back to the store to have the boy apologize and wondered if she could bring him in. I said of course; she was concerned that I would not brush it off and tell him not to worry about it. So she brought the poor little fellow in with his head down and feet dragging. He reached into his pocket and gave me a candy bar that had seen its better days. Not sure if I ever pitied a little fellow more. He said, “I stole this. I’m very sorry. Will you forgive me?” I said I surely would and told him that he had a good mother. Then he reached into another pocket and gave me a dollar bill. I asked him whether he wanted to buy the candy bar and his mother said no, he wanted to give it to me. I told him it was OK and then he quickly gave me a big hug. What do you say? I told him God bless you, and then he quickly turned away to leave with his mom. I thanked her then as they were going out the door I heard him tell his mom loudly, “That wasn’t so bad after all!!!”

You have to pity somebody who doesn’t have a mom like that.

Train set from Mom and Dad.

A rake and shovel from Grandma and Grandpa.

Only knew Richard and his wife from online connections but we recently realized we have more connections as well… today Richard’s brother married a former coworker which brought them to our area… we got together for dinner at our house with Seth and family. Had a great time together!

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Comcast: $42.95/mo.

Vonage basic: $14.99/mo.

Skype Unlimited (50% off $29.95 in January): ($14.98/12 mo.) $1.25/mo.

Total: $59.19/mo.

* One line for Vonage, one for Skype.

** $710.28/year. Don’t like to think about that.

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Last evening was ladies night out. Since I was going to enjoy a delicious meal at Cracker Barrel I thought I should make Mike and the boys a pizza. Well I had good intentions, but time was slipping away and I only got the dough baked and the sausage fried out. I thought no big deal Mike can finish putting the toppings on. Well I left and called back because I forgot to tell him about the black olives if he wanted them. He informed me that he had enough stuff to put on and was very stressed out with getting all that on and baked. He told me to keep my cell phone on because he was sure to need me.:-) Well it went all evening and I heard nothing from him. So when I got back at nine o’clock. I was IMPRESSED! The house was all cleaned up. The kitchen sinks were all cleaned up and all the dishes were put away. He even had swept the kitchen floor. So I asked, “How was the pizza?” He said it was good only he forgot to put the cheese on and didn’t even realize it till after supper. (by the way I had the cheese sitting there with all the other stuff. I had a good laugh and it still tickles me today yet… I’m thankful for a good hubby and father!

- Michelle

Since I’m in the habit of posting about christianaudio.com’s free monthly download, here’s February’s title: Loving a Man, Loving a Woman (Conversations: Volume 2) by John and Stasi Eldredge, Craig and Lori McConnell, Gary and Leigh Barkalow, and Lynn Todd. Must be the John Eldredge who is the author of Wild at Heart (haven’t read it). Not sure if I will bother to listen to it but maybe someone out there is one of the many big John Eldredge fans. There you go. And maybe somebody has a thought or two about his books. Are they worth the time?