What a day! God kept
pouring on the blessings again today, and we are just all feeling so grateful! We could feel it; Carlos noticed and could
feel it too – it was really great.
Two days ago the kids were invited to participate as extras in
the shooting of a commercial for a local university. The filming was this morning. The compensation was a gift card for each
child with the idea that they could use it toward school supplies. I’ve been meaning to go and buy some school
supplies for the past week, and I’m so glad that I waited. We took the kids to the store this afternoon
and let them each pick out something that they wanted (they both chose small
Lego sets) and then we used the rest for school supplies. The amount left after the Legos was exactly
the amount to cover the supplies minus about $2.00! How awesome is that?!
Kevin dropped us off at the set this morning and went to do
a show at a local preschool before picking us back up. We were done before Kevin was back so we were
sitting outside waiting for him, reading and talking. The production manager walked out to her car
about 15 minutes into our waiting, and when she saw us she stopped and smiled and
said that she was just looking for some kids.
She asked if they liked to color and draw and when they answered that
they did, she proceeded to unload a stack of coloring books, drawing pads, and
a brand new huge set of markers for each of them! She had bought them to help keep all the kids
at the shoot busy while they were waiting for their time to be on camera, and
she didn’t want to keep them so she excitedly gave them to us!
About 20 minutes or so later, she came back out and said
that the crew was having lunch now and they had a lot and offered to share it
with us. We declined at first, but she
insisted, so we were blessed with a delicious lunch from them as well!
And then last week we had to take our van in to get looked
at. There were several things that
needed to be repaired, and only one of them was covered by the warranty. We were bummed of course, but what do you
do? Kevin took our van to get a new tire
which is one of the things that needed to be done. He was told at first that they’d need to order
the tire and it would be a couple hundred dollars. But when he took it somewhere else to get
their perspective, that guy also told him it would be that much to order a new
one, but instead of putting the bad one back on while we wait for the new one
to come in, he suggested that we put our spare tire on. It turns out that our spare tire was in great
condition and was actually a better tire than what would have been ordered for
us! So now we’ll just get a spare tire some
time in the near future when a used one comes in to the lot. And we picked up our van from getting
repaired today, and we surprisingly didn’t owe any money! The dealer where we bought the van covered
one of the repairs and they talked to our warranty company and they apparently
were great to work with and they covered the final repair that we had
left! So we thought we’d need to spend
hundreds of dollars today, and we didn’t spend any! Praise God!
We feel very poured into today. We feel very loved. We are looking forward to pouring into others...:)
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