Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord!!!!

(and a small tag!)

First, I have to say that my sweet friend, Donna, offered me the use of her extra fridge until we figured out what we were going to do about our fridge situation. But I hated to take her up on her offer because I know she uses it. So Monday, my "down" day, I decided to try some of the advice I'd found on the internet to try and "fix" my fridge. I'd already moved it and made sure it had at least three inches on each side--didn't work. So I pulled it out, unplugged it, took the back off and cleaned out all the dust, etc. (can we say "nasty"? I don't recommend buying a used fridge from someone you don't know unless you absolutely have to like we did. I'm doing good to hold my cookies as I type this and I am not one to usually have a weak stomach) Then I moved it back and plugged it back in.

Well, THEN it started leaking. I just about lost it. I called Jeff at work (and it took me several tries to reach him so I was SUPER frustrated by the time he answered) and started ranting and raving about how he needed to take care of this. I want a turn at being the laid back relaxed one in our relationship for a change--he needs to start worrying and take care of something once in a while. Not that he never does, but he just doesn't get riled like I do. I told him he needed to call the place we bought it from and tell them about it and if they didn't want to do anything about it, he needed to cuss them out for being crooks! (yeah, I know, not the best way to handle it and I'm glad he didn't listen to me but I let my frustration get the better of me for the moment. I have since repented!)

I turned my attention to other things, knowing that somehow, someway, we would get it worked out. Tuesday morning, Jeff woke me up and said, "Baby, the fridge is working. It's VERY cold." I just said, yeah, uh huh--I was half asleep but sure enough, when I got up, it WAS working. I just thought to myself--no way this could be a God thing, could it? I am ashamed to admit I had doubts but it's a fridge, you know, not a person. The skeptical side of me was saying, it has to be a fluke. I'll get home today and it'll be warm again.

On the way home from CORE and work, my friend, Tere, called and said she'd found someone with a fridge they wanted to get rid of--all we have to do is pick it up. Well, now what do I do? Do I dare pass it up in case this one quits again? No way. So I called the gentlemen last night and Jeff and my dad are going to get it. It was an extra one he had that still worked that he was going to have goodwill pick up sometime. So I'm going to get it and put it in the garage just in case...I know, I can't help my skeptical side sometimes. But since both are used, you never know. And I'm not the kind of person that can afford to lose a week's worth (or more sometimes) of groceries when something like this happens.

Well then, yesterday afternoon, the lady from the place we bought the other fridge called and she was SO SWEET!!! I didn't know Jeff had actually called them and thank God he didn't act ugly like I so would have! But she told me that if we needed to bring it back, we could and they would look at it and figure something out (even though when we bought it they had made a big deal about telling us there was no warranty) I explained to her what all I had done and that for now, it seemed to be working okay and I am going to give God the credit because I had been frustrated and prayed so hard and had friends praying so hard. She agreed--it had to be God and she said she would keep praying, too! I was completely humbled. What a sweet lady!

So friends, I have gone from having no working fridge to now two (in a few days anyway) working fridges and an offer of repair should we ever need it! Praise God! He has His hands so full of taking care of so many things in this world--sicknesses, deaths, poverty, suffering, persecution, broken hearted but he still cares about the seemingly "little" things like refrigerators! How awesome is that?! I just love our God!

Okay, so now for some silliness...

Got this tag via email from my baby sister (the newlywed) and I can never resist these things! So please play along!

1) Four places that I go to over and over:

Clearview Baptist Church (my church)
Community Presbyterian Church (that's where the homeschool group meets)
First Baptist Christian Academy Leeds (the church I work for)
Clay-Chalkville High School (should be obvious) and now that we've started Community Bible Study, Northpark Baptist church also. But wait, that's 5 :D)


2) Four people who e-mail me (regularly): Debbie Landry, Kayti's teachers, Misty Wallace and Allrecipes!

3) Four of my favorite places to eat: Joe's Crab Shack, Fronterra, Milo's and...don't eat out much, can't give ya four on that one.

4) Four places I would rather be right now: In the presence of my Lord (sorry, I'm just feeling full of the spirit today!), at the beach, in the bed, traveling somewhere I've never been.

5) Four people I think will respond: Hmmm, Laine if she has time, Donna maybe, Yvie maybe, don't think I can come up with four here, either.

6) Four TV shows I watch: Cold Case, Law & Order, Raising the Bar, the Duggars.

Tag--you're it!

We just had our second day of Community Bible study and I am LOVING it this time! We tried to do this a few years ago but just couldn't do it. I don't know if it was the fact that it was our first year to homeschool and I was completely overwhelmed or if I just didn't gel with my core group but anyway...I wanted to try it again and I am just loving it. I have an awesome CORE leader--just the sweetest girl you would ever want to meet and I love studying Paul. This week's listen really touched me in so many ways and that's what I needed right now!

Kayti is having some difficulty with one of her CORE classes (and it's not Math, go figure!) so please pray that we get all that worked out.

I start teaching my preschool dance class this week so please be in prayer for me there--I'm so excited about it! I've been wanting to get back into this for a long time!

Yesterday at work, we did Teddy Bear Day and I told them the story of Teddy Roosevelt being our president a long, long time ago and how he liked to hunt but wouldn't shoot a bear. We talked about who our president is now and who might be our president soon. Some of them actually knew the names of George W. Bush, John McCain and Barack Obama--I was impressed. But when we talked about how our mommies and daddies would have to go vote, one little girl started crying--"I don't want my mommy to go anywhere!"

They are so cute and so funny and you never know what's going through their little heads! It just blesses me each week to be around such purity and innocence and reminds me how we all need to have the faith of a child.

I'm off now to finish the housework I didn't get finished with on Monday. Blessings for a great week to everyone!