Table for Two

I just wanted to say that God has really been pouring blessings over us. I remembered after the last post about this past Friday night. Some friends offered to watch Liam so that we could go out just Jeb and I. So that is blessing number 1. I can't remember the last time we went out without Liam. We do get babysitters from time to time, but I don't know when the last time was. So then we decided we would go out to PF Chang's for dinner. Little did we know that they now are accepting reservations. It was a Friday night at peak dinner time. The restaurant was full. There were tons of people waiting. So we joined the line of people to go into the restaurant. First couple walks to hostess. "Table for two". They reply, "We're looking at about 1 hour and 45 minute wait." Second couple walks to hostess. Same reply. We're next and walk to hostess even though we have heard the previous two replies...and she says, "1 hour and 45 minutes....oh wait...we have a table". And we are seated immediately by the windows with a view. We were baffled...how could the tables turn so quickly UNLESS God wanted us to have a very special date! I am thankful for this blessing also. I give God the credit and not coincidence or chance of circumstance. He knew it was special for us so He opened up that table right away.

The other way that God has blessed us is through people. We have been a single car family for quite a while now. We haven't really minded all too much because there is a bus stop literally right outside our front door, so we have traded on and off taking the bus and having the bus stop so nearby has been a blessing to us. Liam loves to ride the bus too, so I am glad that he has had that experience. But there are those certain times. Like the times that it is cold outside and raining and you and your 2 year old son caught a bus that was late and so you missed your connecting bus and have to wait for twenty more minutes in the cold, wind, and rain. Well, someone from our church just up and gave us a truck. I know...generous. We are blessed. We are humbled. We are thankful. This is a huge way God has been blessing us through Him and His people here at Bellevue.

And I don't think that is the only way we have been blessed. I feel almost embarassed to write it down here but our neighbors have had bedbugs. I only know because I work in the office now. This has had me weirded out for quite a while and I am just grossed out by it. They have been fighting them for almost a year. It spread to their neighbor who is also across the hall from us so they decided to check and treat our apartment out of precaution. We were in the clear and treated. It was quite an ordeal to get treated...it was almost as if we moved out of our apartment and everything was taken out of closets and piled in our living room for a day and then we moved back into our apartment the next day. I was pretty hacked off about the whole ordeal but at the same time I would do anything to keep bed bugs away. So I am thankful because God has kept us free and clear. I have felt so humiliated and embarassed by this, but NOT getting bedbugs has been a huge blessing. I am grateful that God has blessed us. And maybe for our sakes, and for our poor neighbors who have continued to be fighting these bedbugs, you can pray that they too will be blessed with NO more bedbugs! I couldn't imagine having these recurrences for almost a year now.

I know God does so much more than these petty things I am listing here, I just wanted to write these down to say that I am thankful. And if anything, to remind myself.