"Biometrics" is a really big word......

Today was a really great day! I got to spend the day with Dan uninterrupted by little people. Sometimes we just need that! We drove to St. Louis to have our "biometrics" done. Actually it is just computer generated fingerprinting that took about 5 minutes a piece but cost us $160. Hmmm, I wonder why our fingerprints from August that only cost $106 were not acceptable? Maybe because they were ONLY $106 and not $160? LOL All you can do is laugh or you will pull your hair out! At this point in the adoption process what's another $160? It is but a drop in the bucket! (Another big LOL) Anyway, it was still a good day even if we did drive for 2 hours for 10 minutes total. You gotta do what the government tells you to do sometimes. After our fingerprints we went to eat at Landry's Seafood House and it was really good. I highly recommend it. Then we went to Krispy Kreme to buy Sam some donuts for his birthday treat for school tomorrow. AND NO we did not eat any (at least until we got home...I only had one) !! I can't believe my baby will be 5 tomorrow. Our lives are really but a vapor as the Bible says aren't they? Next was Target and a little birthday shopping. They had some really good deals on clothes for Sam. He needed new pants because last week the old ones were just right. This week they are highwaters! Maybe he really won't be 35 lbs. forever! Then we came home. Mom was kind enough to come and stay with Sam today and Mrs. Laura was kind enough to bring Erin home from school. Dan is at his men's prayer group right now and the house is quiet. I love this time of night but I never seem to get done what needs to be done. I end up, well, you know, ......writing on my blog! Anyway, I love life. I love seeing God in everything and I love how God brings people into my life and into my families lives. Today while we were being "biometricated" the woman doing my prints couldn't get a good reading at first because my hands were so dry and rough. She said to me, "Almost every adoptive mom that comes in here has hands like this. You all must work very hard!" I laughed and told her "Yes, I think we probably do. Especially those of us that already have kids at home." She told me she thought just by looking at me and talking with me that I seem to have a lot of love in me and the kids we adopt were going to be very loved. That was very sweet. It is moments like these that I know God is speaking directly to me. I love how He does that! On our way to Union Station to Landry's we thought we might ride the metro-link. While we were standing there this guy beside us starts complaining (using some interesting words) and yelling at the ticket machine. He says, "That machine took $2 of my #@!@#& money and only gave me back 75 !#@&*# cents!" I had my hand in my pocket and I felt the $3 I had in there which had been in there for weeks. I had almost spent it a couple of times and I didn't for some reason. Now I knew why. Isn't God just awesome? So I say to him, "How much money did it take from you?" and he tells me again still VERY angry. I took out $2 from my pocket and with a smile I handed it to him. He looked at me and says, "Are you serious?" I say "Of course. Take it and I hope your day gets better." His anger turned into instant gratitude and he says, "You are awesome. Thank you so very much!!!" I was so very blessed by that and to see someone so grateful for $2 warmed my soul. God has been so good to me today as always. Praise His name forever! Thank you God for the opportunity to serve You by serving others. What a privilege it is to call You Lord and Master of my life. Amen