So a famous blonde once said that a smart girl kisses but doesn’t love and leaves before she is left. I don’t guess I’m as smart as I originally thought.
This morning Annie and I made a quick Kroger run to get a few last minute items needed for Thanksgiving prep. Naturally it was a complete madhouse, but thanks to a yogurt pouch that kept Annie more than occupied we made our way through the store relatively quickly and to the bustling self checkout line. We waited out turn, I smiled at the lady checking out next to us as I scanned our items, and then put my chip card in the card reader. NOT AUTHORIZED flashed at me. Not sure what the problem was, I tried again, and again, and again. Same message. Annie started to get antsy – “Mama! Let’s go!” - and I started to get frustrated but felt confident the nice Kroger worker who came over to help us could fix it. She told us it had been acting up all morning and to try again. I did – same message. I tried to check our bank account on our app but thank you, technology, it was down. I didn’t have any other form of payment and only a little cash. A little frazzled at this point, I called my husband at work to help but the issue remained and the people started to line up behind us. It was then the Kroger worker came over and told me no need to pay – the lady who had checked out beside me had seen I was having some trouble and paid for our bag of groceries. She didn’t want us to know so she slipped out. Being eight months pregnant I burst into tears, incredibly touched by the generous stranger’s act of kindness. The Kroger lady patted my shoulder and told me “I know, honey, see? There are kind people in this world – isn’t it wonderful?” I rushed out with Annie still in the cart as I pushed back happy tears, searching for the kind stranger who paid for our bag of groceries. She was gone, but her act of kindness towards this frazzled, pregnant mama with her busy toddler made my entire week, and reminded me of what this season is all about. So to the sweet lady at the Kroger on University Parkway who paid for my bag of groceries and my toddler’s yogurt pouch this morning – THANK YOU. You were Jesus to us and I promise to spread the kindness at every opportunity.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! 🦃🥧❤️
Science has proven (somewhere) that decorating for the holidays earlier results in happier people and well, our family is exhibit A because we decked our halls earlier this week and sights like this make everything happier. 🎄❤️
SNOW | She asked several times if we could “make frosty snowman pwease” but settled for singing the song instead. ⛄️❄️💗
It’s totally acceptable to start singing Christmas carols early if it’s snowing - just ask Annie. ❄️⛄️🎄❤️
Last night our Annie got to stay up way past her bedtime to see her first play, ANNIE, at Freed Hardeman with friends. She loved every minute and every song, especially when Santa was on stage. ❤️🎄🎅🏻
It’s Fri-YAY and we are pretty excited about it. 💗
Long walks with plenty of girl talk are my favorite. 💗
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