A Scare, Answer to Prayer, Hats, and Shoes

I was glad to know that the words to the hymns I shared with you struck a chord with many of you. I am so thankful to be able to sing these songs in our church. I seriously planned to finish the vacation travelogue today, but I just have to show and tell the latest.

I'm still struggling with my decision about the lasik procedure on my eyes. I really want to do it, but the cost is giving me great pause. I could probably do it as things are right now, but who knows what's going to happen next week??? Then I look at myself in the mirror and wonder if I want to go back to doing the whole eye make-up thing, which I kind of don't do when I'm wearing glasses. But if I don't do it, I at least have to get new glasses. It takes quite awhile to get an appointment, so I need to make a decision and act upon it soon. So . . . . today, when I couldn't find my glasses, it was panic time!

You see, I have wonderful prescription sunglasses - when I change from glasses to sunglasses, I put the other pair in my purse. Tonight, when it came time to change out of sunglasses for the evening, I could not find my regular glasses. I don't have any back-up plan. The darker it got, the more my eyes hurt wearing the sunglasses.

I looked everywhere in the car - Feisty had dumped everything from the passenger seat of the van onto the floor. They were nowhere to be found - nowhere. When DC got home, he took the flashlight out to the car and - lo and behold - they had fallen into the little storage area on the door - the only place I hadn't looked. I had even looked in the other door. YAY!! What a relief! Thank you, Lord.

Last week Diane posted about Bugaloo baby shoes. I thought they were so cute that I couldn't resist ordering a pair for each of the twins. I was hoping to get both of them the little Mary Janes, but they must be very popular, because there was only one pair in stock. So I ordered the adorable giraffe ones for the second pair. They came very quickly, packaged beautifully, and reasonably priced. Check it out, if you have cute little people in your life!

The big girls got new shoes this week-end, too. Feisty wanted to show off one of her new pairs. They each got new dress shoes to wear with their new matching Christmas dresses - I can't wait to show you pictures of all 4 of them dressed alike. Coming soon! Feisty picked out these cute clogs and Care Bear was excited to find High School Musical tennies.

After Barb showed us the picture of Avery in that darling fuzzy winter hat, I just had to order some for the girlies. Check them out! Order some of these, too!









Of course, Miss Care Bear has to seriously pose. She wanted you to note the Thanksgiving feast she prepared for the Little People and scarecrows.

In case you're wondering about their faces -- here are close-ups, with explanation to follow.





Our Chick-Fil-A is doing a fun activity for kids every Monday night. Kristen has taken them the last two weeks. Last week they made very cute Thanksgiving wreaths with construction paper. This week was face painting. Next time they'll be making Christmas gifts for their families. I love Chick-Fil-A because they honor the Lord by closing on Sundays. Same reason I love Hobby Lobby (besides the fact that they have WONDERFUL merchandise and play beautiful Christian music while I'm shopping!)



Well, it's been fun visiting with you - more later!