God Hears ALL Things

The other day I was just having some random thoughts. The first was my little man sure is mature for his age.  He listens so well when I am not in the room.  Let the pruning begin.  God like to use my children to prune me and teach me many things. Well not long after this thought we were doing school at the kitchen table with Makenna.  Maddax was coloring next to us. I look up and find Maddax chomping down on a crayon. He said, "Look mom it is nauqamarine." I found myself scraping and picking out crayon from his teeth for the next 10 minutes.  We finally got his teeth cleaned and our day went on. A couple hours later Makenna was practicing the piano and when she finished playing all her songs with both hands she asked for an M&M.  I told her she could have 2 and to give Maddax 2 for going potty earlier.  I hear her in the closet and then nothing else.  I proceed to walk through the living room and see Maddax sitting on the couch facing the corner.  I really did not think anything about it until I went to get in the closet and found M&M's scattered on the floor but the container was MIA.  I looked over at Maddax again to find him shoveling M&M's in his mouth.  I could not help but chuckle. Pretty smart move for the little guy. Needless to say I have been watching him extra closely lately. 

Then I have been dealing with a stinky disposal for some time.  We really did not want to shell out the money to have it fixed so I am constantly running frozen lemons down it to make it smell better.  We tried cleaner but after a day it is back.  We generally unplug the drain and walk away.  Well I had it the other day.  I told Chris I was calling a plumber the next day if he did not.  The next morning I was doing laundry and at the end of the wash cycle the door unlock signal went off 7 times. I new something was wrong.  The blinking light said E27. It was nowhere to be found in the manual so I googled it. Needless to say ti was "door lock/ unlock" error. Duh!!  I called Bosch and they said there is no reset button and I would have to contact someone to fix it.  Chris finally called all 5 number Bosch gave us and none of them could be here for 3 days. Hello, my clothes are LOCKED in the washer.  We finally got someone to come out that afternoon.  I was so excited to see this man arrive and rescue my clothing that had now been held captive by my washer for more than 7 hours.  He told me it needed a new door lock/ unlock mechanism and it would be covered under warranty including the labor.  I just so happened to mention the disposal and he said he would take a look at it.  He was able to adjust the drainage line under the sink and then ran a cup of ice down the disposal.  It did not cost us a thing.  I was so excited.  God let my washer break (under warranty) so that this nice man would check out my disposal (no warranty).  God has a great sense of humor.

Lastly I have been having a hankering for some sewing.  Nothing major. I thought maybe a skirt for Makenna.  We were browsing the new fabric section at Wal-Mart and Makenna spotted some Princess material.  It was cute but it was almost $10 a yard. I told her not this time. then we walked past the remnant section and there it was, a princess remnant.  She begged, "mommy please." I thought $3 was worth it.  I winged the project from scratch and this is the finished product.

Needless to say she loved it and worn it 2 days in a row and asked me to wash it tonight so she could wear it again.

I have been amazed at how God has been showing himself in my life lately.  I have been asking Him to be real and I want to feel His presence in my life.  I look at all of this and think if He can have a hand in the small stuff then what big stuff can He do if I just let Him?

I am still a work in progress. Thankful God is listening and He is patient.