Monday, January 19, 2026

1/19/26

 


I dropped my car key in the bottle drop at Fred Meyer accidentally.  I went to the desk to say, “I think I may have dropped my keys into the bottle drop.  Can you please have some people look for me?”  The person was kind enough to send several workers to clean up the bottle drop area and look for my key.  Then I said.  “I may have locked them in my car.  I definitely locked my phone in there.  Can I please use the phone to get my son to come rescue me just in case?”  She was also kind enough to let me call out.  I left this message for Bobby since I haven’t memorized Seth’s number, “Hi, Bobby, I might have locked my keys in my car at the South Salem Freddies.  Can you please have Seth come and rescue me?”  I then went to the bottle drop area. 

The wonderful young men found my keys!! Yay.  I unlocked my car, got my phone and called Bobby to leave this message, “Disregard the last message. I’m fine.  I don’t need to be rescued!”  I then called Seth to say, “You don’t have to rescue me anymore. We found my keys in the bottle drop.”  Seth sounded a little confused and said, “OOooK?? Be well?” Then I noticed I had a message.  I had called myself from Fred Meyer.  I had left a message to myself to tell Seth to rescue me.  Needless to say both Seth and Bobby were a bit confused last Sunday afternoon.

               The week could only get better and it did.  Monday was blissfully uneventful.  I had wanted to take Seth out to “Bag O’ Crab” because it has a robot serve the food and that sounded super fun.  Seth was too busy (on a weekly basis he has meetings with friends online).  I couldn’t tempt him enough.  I finally gave up and told Bobby, “I guess I’ll have to take you out to the Bag O’ Crab.  Seth doesn’t want to go.”  Bobby didn’t mind being my second pick at all.  He said, “How about Saturday?”  Well, OK – Saturday it was.

               Tuesday evening at the Middle School group I was reminded of a comment I made about someone’s sequined item hanging off their purse.  When I asked, “What’s that?”  She mentioned, “It’s broccoli.  I have told you once before.”  I did mention that I might even ask again because I do forget things.  A fun comment from her friend, “Because you are so old.”  I fit in the ancient category for them.  It was fun to laugh with them, even though the joke was on me.

               I did enjoy bringing some Valentines cards, random stickers and card stock for making cards in general and Valentines for next month.  The comments were, “Isn’t is a little early for Valentines?”  My reply, “Well, this is what’s in the stores.”  After a pause they got into it and I heard, “I’m going to make this for my _ _ _  or other people they had in mind.  It was fun to see them get creative and think about sharing love even though it’s a little early.

               The group on Wednesday night was enjoyable.  They started trying to do origami with the cardstock I brought.  I thought they were done with origami!  I made a mental note to bring some thinner paper. 

               During the lesson time Bobby said, “Tonight we will be talking about sin, but it’s not all bad.”  That made me chuckle.  I’m sure he meant the talk wouldn’t be bad, but it still sounded silly.

               Saturday at Bag O’ Crab was an experience I will never do again.  My favorite restaurant is McDonalds because it is fast, tasty and  . . . did I mention fast?  OK, OK I LOVED the robot with cat ears, whiskers and an adorable voice – that was fun.  But I had a project for lunch and giving me a bib and plastic gloves just made me leery.  It was messy, it was yummy, it was not for me.  Bobby enjoyed himself and I was fine for about 15 minutes.  Then I was just making it so the leftovers didn’t include outer shell.  Seth enjoyed the leftovers.  But I did have to clean the microwave after that.  Yikes.

               Well, in light of that – even though I didn’t like it that much may you also be willing to try new things.  May your heart be filled with the people that are willing to spend time with you.  May you find strength in being loved and loving others and may God fill you with gratitude and peace always.

 

               Love and Hugs,

 

Cristy

PS, the picture was taken by Bobby :-).

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