It's been a good day. An expensive day... but good non-the-less. hehe I got home late and woke up early for how late I went to sleep. I had a meeting with an elder in the church at 11:00 about the direction of the youthgroup. It went well. I got a lot of good ideas and I can't wait to encorporate them into the Salteens.
Yesterday was my moms bday so I chose to spend today with her, take her out to lunch, go see a movie, buy her a birthday present and just have a girls day. She had counseling at 12 so she told me to take my time. So when I was done with the meeting at noon I decided to head over to the Sprint store to pick up a new phone. I had my heart set on the
LG PM-225which is what I ended up getting. I qualified for the Sprint Mail-In Rebate of 150.00 so the phone wasn't that expensive. I love it! I got the red one. I've been playing with all the possibilities all day today.
My mom called as I was in the Sprint store to tell me her counseling appointment never showed up. So I told her I would be there as soon as possible. I got everything I needed and went to pick up my mom and take her out to lunch. She chose Mimi's Cafe and I have to say that it was the worst food I've had in a LONG time... I didn't like my lunch but have found that the last three times I've been (in a years time) I haven't been that happy with it accept for the breakfast and bread... So my mom and I decided we will stay away from Mimi's... We went back to the house to look for lamps for my mom on the internet to get an idea of where to go. All the lamps we saw on lampsplus.com seemed too pricey. We ended up finding a couple we liked on amazon of all places... and they were from lampsplus! So we decided since there was a Lamps Plus in Upland we would just drive down and let her decide which finish she wanted. We got there and within a few minutes found a set of four that we liked. Here's a link
http://www.lampsplus.com/htmls/prodlist.asp?search=01491 but she got the darker bronze finish. When we got them home and put up they totally change the look of the living room! I'm sooo glad I got them for her... My brother brian is going to pitch in as well.
So after Lamps Plus we ended up heading back up the hill because it was too early for our 7:30 movie,
Must Love Dogs. Cute movie, a must see if you are a
John Cusack fan (like myself) or if you are a chick flick lover (also like myself) OR if you are a
Dermot Mulroney fan (like my best friend Rachel). hehe
Either way I finally am home. I played with my phone some more and I'm getting ready to go to bed. All-in-all a good day.
There are a couple close family and friends going through a rough time and today was a really tough one for me to keep my cool in listening to what they are going through. It's so hard to hear people I care about being torn apart by the enemy (enemy = satan). My sister especially. It breaks my heart and I ache for her to be out of the situation she has been put in. All I can do is pray. I mean there is nothing physically I can do. I've asked her if there is and really I know that she needs to lean on God right now. Same with my best friend Rachel with the little girl she's been taking care of for close to 8-10 months. I believe she's 10 months old and Rachel got her at 2 months that's why I give that time frame because I'm not absolute. Rosie has become part of their family and her real mother just got out of jail and wants her back. It's so hard because we all knew this could and most likely would happen but it didn't stop us from falling in love with her and was expected of Rachel and her family. And to top matters off the mom wants Rachel to bring Rosie to her but won't return phone calls so right now Rachel is in limbo of how this is all going to work. It just makes my heart ache even more for her. It would be soo hard to not know what day is going to be her last with Rosie.
Anyways, so I would say today was an awesome day, but I've had these two issues looming over my head. I guess the only thing to do is pray. I told Rachel after her update that I guess I hadn't spent enough time on my knees today cause it was all getting to me much worse then normal. So for that reason today has not been an awesome day. But for the fact that I have a new phone and was able to bless my mom and well myself, since I was able to spend some good quality time with her, today has been a good day.
Nite
posted by Charity at 7/24/2005 12:20:00 AM 
