Special blessings

This will just be a quick one, but I had something interesting happen earlier and wanted to document it.

This afternoon Tim's youth group and some others from church were serving at Families Feeding Families. We got there entirely too early and I was just standing by the kitchen talking to two of the boys from Caddo. I had gotten a call from Michael a little earlier so when I heard my phone, I assumed it was him again maybe having forgotten to tell me something. I pull it out of my shorts pocket, and instead of it being a phone call, it was a video of Amanda riding in a car with another girl and Amanda was just singing and laughing. For that to have logically happened, I would have had to select my camera icon, go to my videos and find one of Amanda. I just felt really blessed but also choked up. I wanted to be able to get away and just think about my girl, but I didn't have that chance. Maybe, like one friend said, she was telling me hello, she loves me and to remember her that way.

A second blessing is when I got home from there with Tim and there was a package from my friend, Nancy Bullock. She had sent me a card and this sweet memory locket that she personalized with an "A," an owl, a heart that said "daughter" and a music note. All of it represents Amanda so well. It was so beautiful and thoughtful. She had also received today the owl pin I sent to her :-) She sent me a picture on FB to show it on her purse.