The kindness of others.....

Have you ever had "one of those days"

when you just can't wait to get home

so you can cry all by yourself?

Well, I sure had one today.

I was on my way home from the grocery store,

and I was within eyesight of the freeway on ramp

and my car died in traffic.

I mean dead, muerte, nil, nada.....

It suddenly smelled like something was burning

and the gas pedal didn't work 

I just slowly came to a stop in traffic!

First of all

I did what any woman with my skill 

and knowledge of cars would do.....

I panicked!

Cars around me started to honk at me

 as if I could do something about it.

My hazards are flashing for a reason folks!!!

Anyways,

One nice man stopped

 and helped me push it out of the way.

I was still shaking when  I called AAA.

They told me the tow truck would be about 30 minutes.

The nicest tow truck driver showed up 10 minutes later.

Super nice and funny too.

Win win :)

He said it looked like the engine was blown.

Great....awesome....fabulous.

Praise God we've already done our taxes

and I guess I know where the refund is going.

But it could always be worse.
It could have happened yesterday coming home from Irvine

on the freeway going 75 miles an hour.

But it didn't.....

God was watching over me,

I feel thankful.

Shaken, tearful, but thankful :)

Once I was home I had a good cry

and I opened the door to collect my mail

and look what I found!!!

This lovely package from one of my online friends Connie!

Thank you Thank you Thank YOU!!!

If there was EVER a day for chocolate...

this was the day!

Look how cute she embroidered

my name on the mug rug!

I love it so much.

Yes.....I ate all the chocolate already :) 

Don't judge...

it was a stressful day.

And since I am talking about the kindness of others,

I'll share a picture of another package I received last week

from my buddy Amy.

The flannel will become some cute jammie shorts

and how cute is that angel?

There was also a bar of chocolate 

from her recent trip to Switzerland

but you can already imagine what happened to that :)

And a jar of Jalapeno jelly she made

that my hubby made quick work of.

So even though this is not the way

 I would have planned this day to turn out,

I am thankful for caring friends,

my loving family,

and most of all

my God who loves me and kept me safe :)