The three stooges?

Saturday morning Destiny brought her guitar out of her bedroom as soon as she woke up. The lyrics on the piece of paper beside her are a poem I hung in her room. She was putting the words to music! Of course she doesn't know the fingering to any real chords yet, but she has a good strum!

It was a dark and rainy day, just wonderful for being able to stay home and get some things done. Dick was at my school helping to hang sound panels on the walls of the gym/auditorium.

In the evening we had Dick's 40th class reunion. Frank was planning to have Destiny for the evening and we met at the agreed upon place. However, when he got out of the car to come back to our car for Destiny, his door locked with the keys in the ignition and the engine running!

What to do, what to do? He hopped into our car and we drove down the road to a convenience store, then a Pizza Hut, then a Hoss's Steak House, in search of a wire hanger. None to be found.

I knew that my coworker Pam lived somewhere in the area, so I dialed 411 on my cell phone, not even knowing if she had a house phone. She did! Directory assistance gave me her number. I called her house, got her answering machine, and proceeded to explain our dilemma, asking her to pick up the phone if she was listening. She was! She picked up and gave us directions to her house. By this time the rain was just POURING! She brought a wire hanger to her door, we went back to Frank's car, and the two men, Dick in his suit and Frank in his shorts and tee shirt, with my hot pink umbrella partially keeping them dry, worked and worked and worked and worked and worked to get that door unlocked.

I could hardly stand to see how wet Dick was getting as I watched the time slipping away. There was to be a class picture taken before the meal and I so wanted Dick to be there for it. I was praying out loud, reminding the Lord that He can move mountains, surely He can open a car door. After about 15 minutes I quit praying. It didn't seem that they would get that door open.

But they kept trying. After a while Destiny said, 'Lord, You can lift a car, You can lift a truck, You can lift a mountain, can You please lift the lock?" I was thinking, "Come on, God, how can you turn that prayer down?" And THEN, I kid you not, I saw the guys open that car door! Destiny and I clapped our hands, and I said, "Destiny, it must have been your prayer!" She said, "It was, it was!!" as she got out and ran front to her daddy's car!

We had planned on being early, but we actually arrived just at the exact time the picture was to be taken. And guess what? The place was chaos, and everything was running very late. There were a LOT of people there. I knew very few of them, but I'm not exactly shy, so I still enjoyed the evening. There was lots of reminiscing, so the subject of unemployment didn't come up too often, praise God. Below is a picture of people who went to the same elementary school, junior and senior high! Dick is in the back.

After we left we headed back to the same place to meet Frank. Just as we got there he called and said Destiny had forgotten her coat, so he had to turn around and go back to the house to get it. So we waited and waited, and while we waited Dick decided to read the memory book that had been made for the reunion. He couldn't find his reading glasses and realized he had apparently left them on the table at the reunion.

So after we finally had Destiny back in the car with us we had to go back to the reunion where a few stragglers were still dancing. Sure enough, his glasses were there! Boy, we sound like the three stooges, don't we? It was 11:15 when we finally got home.