More than enough manna!

A few years ago, we were living in Little Elm/Frisco, Tx and my Mom lived in Fort Worth. She often made Monday trips to my house and would take me and the kids out for shopping and lunch. One Monday she decided to bring her friend Kathy with her so they could hit Sam Moon and other great shopping places in Frisco. Josiah was barely two years old and Ava Beth was a newborn. Josiah could never say Kathy but for some reason began to call her Coffee. That was it! The name stuck so we decided to spell it Kaufee and make it special. I always refer to Kathy as my Fairy God Mother because she does things for me only a Fairy God Mother could do. Kathy doesn't have kids or grand kids so we don't mind if she gives all of her love and attention to us because she is a wonderful blessing to our family.

Thursday night she called and said, "Can I come see you this weekend?" And I said, "Of course." So right now I am blogging and Kathy is downstairs preparing stuff for tonight's supper she is cooking. She is an amazing cook and knows everything about food. Tonight we are having amazing Hors d'oeuvres ( I don't even know what's it's called but it's something Italian) chicken catchatori and a nice glass of shiraz. I can't wait! I was planning on making meatloaf tonight. Ha! When she got here, I was getting ready to start supper and she let me know that she was taking us out for Mexican food and then while we were eating Mexican food, she told me that she wanted to go to Wal Mart to get some stuff. This past week has been a tight week for us on the groceries so I had every single meal planned. The only thing I NEEDED, the only thing I HAD TO HAVE was milk. So we walk in to Wal Mart and she tells me to get what I need and I tell her I only need milk and maybe some toothe paste but I had money for it so she did not need to worry about it. But she decides to tell me to get what I WANT instead of what I NEED. Well, I felt kind of weird just throwing stuff in the basket because I knew she was paying. So she started throwing stuff in the basket for me. I THOUGHT she was buying stuff for her. When I saw her put every Holiday scent of Glad candles in the basket, I THOUGHT they were for her. When she told me to pick out some shower gel (stuff I don't buy), I just smiled. She knows I'm obsessed with cleaning products so she bought some cleaning stuff. Ava Beth has about every single Barbie Island Princess snack, cereal and product there is and Josiah has every snack he's ever dreamed of. Oh and she bought a huge thing of Kleenex. I said, "Kathy, I don't buy Kleenex! We use toilet paper and plus no one has a runny nose!" I now have a box of Kleenex in every room. :) We have juice, Yoohoos, donuts, bagels, cheese and so much more. I truly felt like I was grocery shopping with Jesus! :)

Then she asked me what I needed to get the kids. I knew at this point that she would not let me get away with saying, "Nothing." So I told her they needed socks and underwear. We have both but now that it is sock weather, they need new ones for this year. Somehow when I was getting socks and underwear for the kids, she asked me if I needed panties. My friend Gina knows that the other day I said to her, " I need underwear but I hate to spend money on that stuff." I never told Kathy that! As we are standing there in the underwear section, she is looking at some for herself and then says, "What size do you wear?" And then I tried again, "Kathy, you do not need to buy me underwear!" Well, she got it out of me. I figured she put a couple of pairs in the basket. But when I got home, I saw that she had bought seven pairs!

Needless to say, I am overwhelmed. Honestly, we were totally fine. We didn't NEED anything but Milk and maybe some toothpaste but God decided to give enough manna for quite a while. And while I was posting yesterday's blog, she was driving here. I even said, "You swear you did not see my blog??" The thing is, I know she got a huge blessing out of doing what she did. Last night as we were leaving Wal Mart, three hours later, I told her that I did not have any words to say and that I felt like thank you was not enough. I think I will go down to the kitchen right now and eat. I'm not hungry but there is so much stuff to choose from that there's no excuse not to!

I love you Kaufee. My Mom is so blessed to have a friend like you and I'm so blessed that she brought you into our lives. Wow! I had so much fun sitting outside on the patio drinking Hot Chocolate and talking about food, restaurants and places we'd like to travel or places YOU have already traveled until 3am in the morning! You can't imagine how bad I needed that. AND ZEKE SLEPT ALL NIGHT!!!!! Of course the night I go to bed at 3:30am, he sleeps all night! :)