Today has been a very interesting day. First off I was home with both boys. The daycare told Chris yesterday that if there was anyway for the children to stay home they would appreciate it. The Church was housing Ike evacuees and they were also hoping to close down early. Not a problem since I am home right now anyway.
Then our church since out an email saying they were housing 67 evacuees, up from 28 just a day ago. They were completely out of bedding. Since we weren't expecting our own evacuees from Houston or Huntsville, I packed up some blankets, our air mattress, some pillows, and food. This took some effort on my part because Christian was up at 7:30 and Archer was up too. So between keeping them entertained, I was packing some supplies to take to Church.
Then we all loaded up in the car and dropped everything off. After that we went to Teo's to meet Chris for his lunch hour. This gave me some help and Christian was able to see Daddy, he had been asking about him all day.
We thought this would be a great time to get Christian's hair cut. Now Aunt Sassy is officially his hair stylist of choice, but for numerous reason we won't be able to see Sassy for several weeks. So we needed to find another option. There is a cute little place just for kid's haircuts in the same shopping center as Teo's. I walked over and luckily she had an opening. GREAT! It is called the Hair's Lair. Chris needed to get back to work so he walked us over there and then headed off. We had been sitting outside on the patio at Teo's so Christian could run around and it was pretty hot. We walked into the Hair Lair to see my co-worker's wife and little boy getting his haircut. The hairdresser suggested I keep Christian outside because it might set him off if were to see the little boy getting upset about his haircut. Since my co-workers wife was there, I felt comfortable leaving Archer inside with the A/C while I walked around outside with Christian. That was my stroke of good fortune #1.
Here is what happened once Christian was in the chair and she was starting his haircut. I asked, "Do you take credit cards?" "No, but we do take cash and checks" Good, I should have my check book right .....nope, no check book in my wallet, no cash either. No problem, I'll walk over to the bank right here and get some cash...wait, I don't know my pin # for this debit card...great...how am I going to pay? I know I will call Chris. Oh wait. He already told me he forgot his wallet at home today...hmm...how and I going to work around this?? The hairdresser was so sweet. She said Chris didn't need to leave work. She said I could just mail her a check once I got home. How great is that!?!? She doesn't know me. I've never been to her store before. That was stroke of good fortune #2.
Then I had promised Christian several time if he was good for his haircut we would go across the shopping center to Rootin' Ridge and get him a toy. He was so GREAT for his haircut we had to make the promised stop. Rootin' Ridge is about our favorite toyshop in Austin. It is all wooden toys, with many of them made on site by the owners. Well luckily they will take my credit card, so we go in to look around. Christian makes he selection...a choo-choo train, no big surprises there. Then we go to leave. Now, remember Chris helped me bring both the boys over to the hair salon, now it is just me taking them both back to the car....carseat in one hand, large diaper bag over one shoulder, while holding the hand of a 2.5 year old in the other hand....and now I have a paper bag with a choo-choo train in it, with no room in my diaper bag for anything. The wonderful man at the toy store must have noticed this too and very nicely offered to help me out to my car with my things. Mind you he is the only one at his shop. Normally I am the kind that will say "Oh, no, I can get it"...thinking I am super woman or something...Oh NO! not today. I realize my limitations and greatfully accept his help. That was good fortune #3.
I feel like God was rewarding our good deed of taking items to the Church for the evacuees by putting all these wonderful people in my path today. Without their kindness I would have probably had a major mommy meltdown...but no, here I am telling you about it while both boys peaceful sleep.
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