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| Fri, 03-02-2007 - 8:38pm |
Today I was waiting in line in a flooring store. The person waiting on me was most extraordinary. It was busy and she was juggling a few things. I noticed how she was so kind and patient on the phone with a customer who had a bunch of questions and so when she hung up I complimented her on how she is very good with people. She said she is going to school to be a nurse and then pointed to a picture on the wall of her daughter, who is also going to school to be a nurse and who is going to beat her to graduation. The daughter is 20. I commented that I thought that picture was HER not her daughter!!
And she proceeded to tell me she had her daughter at 17. (she has no ring and dresses hip so I assume that she is a single mom.) I said wow - that must have been hard at the time but look how great she turned out and you both seem so happy. She said she was truly blessed because as it turns out, if she didn't have her daughter at that time she would not have been able to have her. Something happened in her 20s so that she cannot have any more children.
Our children are such a blessing. This story made me realize that no matter how they come to us and no matter the story in our lives, we are blessed to have them.
I just had to share this story here.
Oh - and the best thing - is that once she found out I am a single mom she gave me the most incredible discount on my purchase. So we single moms have to stick together!

I conceived my son under odd circumstances so your story also made me remember that. I was taking care of my mom at the time who was dying of ovarian cancer when they found a lump in MY breast. So I had a lumpectomy to take it out feeling kind of paranoid and they sent me home with antibiotics. I was dating my son's father but we werent thinking marriage at all. Nobody mentioned to me that antibiotics would cancel my birth control and boy did it. I was pregnant within a week and a half so I must have been ovulating as I returned from the surgery. We were all shocked. But my son gave my mom more to live for and it made her fight harder, giving me more time to know her and be with her while I was pregnant. She met him and was here for the first six months. I have never regretted having him exactly when I did. It was perfect and very accidental timing. I am one of those people that definitely believes that everything happens for a reason.
That is a great story! Random acts of kindness rarely go unnoticed, and it's great that you picked up on it. It also sounds like she will make a wonderful nurse- something the world definitely needs more of!
Moody- remembering to be more patient
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Awesome story, Judy!
It's always amazed me how someone can take a circumstance and see it as a blessing and do wonderful things with it, and someone else can take that same circumstance and see it in a whole other light.
I love meeting people like that, yes we women must help, inspire and empower one another.
She reminds me of myself as I had my oldest dd at 17 myself and put myself through college while raising her and my ds at the same time. I worked three part-time jobs while doing all that, as a result my kids learned great work ethics and are now professionals themselves and great parents to their own kids.
Thanks for sharing with us.