MEETING A NEW BLOG FRIEND

I was blessed recently to win Tammy's (of County Girl at Home) drawing which she had to celebrate her 200th post here. The three items I won were wonderful ... but the winning didn't end there.

When the package came I, of course, noticed the return address. I had absolutely no idea where Tammy and her family lived. Imagine my surprise when I saw that she was in a state that we were going to be traveling in our upcoming trip that we were making to visit Mickey's family. I asked Mickey if I could locate it on the map and if it wasn't too much out of the way, if I could contact Tammy about meeting. My sweet, dear husband, said, "Of course". Thus I was privileged to meet my EIGHTH blogging friend since beginning this exciting adventure of blogging 2 years and 4 1/2 months ago.

Here are Tammy, Joy & Jason at the restaurant where we met for lunch. Tammy is undoing the knot on the gift bag she gave me. Sweet Joy taught Mr. Mickey to pick-up french fries with the chop sticks. What a bright, sparking young 10 year old Joy is. Jason is looking on.
Look at the lovely "Blessing" stitchery piece. Frame in a rustic gray and the stitching is pink letters to go into our guest room. Thanks Tammy!!!

Here are the 5 of us as we were leaving the restaurant. We asked the cashier to take a picture of the 5 of us so you could see us all together.

What a blessing and nice time and wonderful visit we had meeting and sharing a little with this delightful young family. Just sorry we didn't get to meet their 20 year old son, Colt, who was busy doing the Lords work leading afternoon worship at the Church he attends.

I know that God ALWAYS has plans and purposes, way beyond what we can imagine,
for those whom He places in our lives. The minute that winning package arrived, because Joy had picked my name out of many others, I just knew it was because it was in God's wonderful purposes that we were to meet. What an awesome, wonderful God we have. He blesses us in so many ways. He blessed us big time in making this connection. I was the first blogger Tammy has met so that made it even more special. Tammy is my 8th blogger to meet and "eight is new beginnings".

Thanks again, Tammy, Jason & Joy, for working with us to have this great time and joy of gettting acquainted in "real" life.