Monday, February 06, 2006

What a Beautiful Day!

Oh there is nothing greater than some solitude in place full of wonderful smells and coffee! I am sitting by myself, yes that's right all alone, at Panera in Austintown. I am enjoying a Cafe Mocha and some time to myself. I actually have most of the day to myself. My husband is up to something in our son's room today, something in which I have no information because he refuses to tell me. I was simply instructed about a week ago to make myself and Camden disappear for the day (about 8 hours). Well, I was intending it to be a Camden and mommy day out, but Grammie and Grandpa asked when they could see him again and it just worked out great that he was able to go visit his Grammie while mommy has a full 6 hours to myself. This is first day of this kind in such a long while.
So, out and about I am. I first enjoyed a yummy cup of tea with my wonderful mother-in-law. We just sat around and chatted, something we do not do nearly enough. I then ventured over to the Village to get a couple of things that I've been needing to get but am too cheap to pay full price for. The most interesting thing happened while I was looking at the children's clothes. This young mom just started up a conversation with me. Just out of the blue, this long conversation developed. She and her husband lived in Columbiana about two years ago and use to come in the library, but by that time I had already quit. She told me about her two children, girls ages 2 and 4 months. Any way, we just really hit it off. And then she started asking if I went to church anywhere and I told we had been attending Old North but our attendance has been off since having our son. She told me that they are wanting to move back to the area (there are currently in PA) and want to find a good church. There church they had attended before was Baptist but now are attending a "Bible Church" which said is much like the Baptist church they attended before. I told her about Old North and she seemed really interested. We ended up talking for over 1/2 hour and we in tern exchanged phone numbers and said we'll have to talk again soon. It truly was the weirdest thing. I don't normally have these kind of experiences but I was really blessed.
So now I sit here at Panera and I should get some work done. I came here to work on getting a book together of my photography work and possibly order some business cards. I have had a few people enquire about my work, so I need to be more prepared.
So, off to enjoyable afternoon. TTFN.

2 comments:

Kimmy said...

I am just dying to know what Mike was up to in Camden's room...

Frank said...

Whats Mike up to??? Keep us posted. By the way, the entertainment center is VERY nice and I like that spice rack!