Everybody has one!

I think I am fixing to set up a recurring e-mail to relish@camalott.com , Kim and I are fixing to go round and round. If you accept payment for a service, that service had better be available on demand. I pay a year in advance and I am not very happy with Camalott today or have I been for quite sometime. I once used them at our office until they tried to trim our service to their advantage and I caught them at it. I used an independent consultant to monitor the pipeline and Camalott was closing the valve!

We didn’t have any pewee granddaughters sleep over. I think this program is now defunct! It is a commitment, not when I feel like it! Krl and I got an early start on our day. We left the house at eight fifteen headed in a round about way to church. We had signed up for bringing refreshments today for Sunday school. We went to Jack and Jill to pick up doughnuts, they had written a charge ticket to Highland (which I refused to sign because I wanted to and DID pay cash!). Krl had baked blue berry muffins, she had purchased a coffee cake while at the store, prepared a tray of grapes and strawberry halves, and on our way to Church we purchased soft drinks and iced them down. We got to church with about ten minutes to spare, scoped out the situation and secured our seats. Kali and Addie surprised us by showing up. During the service when they were presenting a special announcement I slipped out to set up refreshments for class. I did not realize how much effort goes into these refreshments. Finally everything was spread out and coffee was at the ready and I went back into the assembly to catch Mike’s message. We won’t be there next Sunday. Family reunion. The first of three in the next month!

Mike’s message was pretty good. It involved a very special baseball glove. Everybody has one! People around me probably didn’t understand why I was smiling so big when Mike was breaking down! There is a story here! I used to keep a portion of the kids “allowance” for them to use on their seasonal Christmas shopping spree! Miss Ollie our youngest daughter was seven or eight years old, and had developed a strategy, in world record time she had completed her Christmas shopping for about a dozen people! When I met her to check out she was sooo proud. Barely over thirty dollars! Visions of excess cash danced in her eyes! In the past any left over surplus of funds was theirs for their spending. As we exited the store Dad was lecturing, she was telling Dad that it was “her” money and I was saying “but it violates the spirit of the season!” We stopped at the Salvation Army Kettle where under “Dad’s” supervision she deposited excess funds except for five dollars! Needless to say “this” shopper had not achieved total satisfaction! I am sure this is one of those “life lessons” Ollie will not ever forget, I know I won’t! My favorite part was the next morning! After everyone was settled from the “Little Fat Man’s” gifts, we started our tree. When Rian, Ollie’s older brother opened his gift from her he was thrilled! A new baseball glove! When Rian tried it on a confused look came over him. It was on his right hand! This was a left-handed glove and Rian was right handed! The price was right! Purchased out of season for the minority of the populous it was a bargain! I wish we had kept it, I am sure Ollie is glad we didn’t!

FATHER, bless all the Dads today. Especially bless my Dad, and all of our grandchildren’s Dads. Happy Dad’s day Pepa, Rian, Brently and Garry! We love you!

FATHER, it is hard being a Dad! I am thankful that YOU are a powerful and mighty GOD and that everything comes through you. FATHER, we need YOUR strength, YOUR wisdom, YOUR guidance. Fill us with YOUR spirit, YOUR love, and YOUR grace! FATHER, I continue to lift up Aimee Harris to you! Heal her and comfort her and her family! FATHER, may my day and my coming week glorify YOU!