Wrap Up on Aisle 9

We've all been there, standing in the middle of the aisle needing to find that perfect gift and realizing that we're just too tired to keep shopping. My youngest daughter has always been totally impossible to buy for, especially Christmas or birthdays when you might want to surprise her. She hates surprises and she's picky (don't tell her I said that).

She has a specific kind of pants she wears (they have to fit exactly perfect). She wears a particular kind of sweaters. Her jackets and shoes have to fit perfectly too, and the only dress I've got her in the past ten years, she'd selected and still hasn't worn. So, there I stood looking up and down the aisle wanting to get her something special, but absolutely nothing stood out as something she'd wear or use. I knew anything I purchased would be returned to the store and I realized I wasn't willing to buy it, if it was only going back.

I looked both ways down the aisle again and turned my cart back toward the front of the store. That was my last gift, and I wasn't buying anything. I stacked my purchases on the revolving belt and paid for them at the cash register. Again this Christmas, there would be nothing under the tree for my Ms Priss. By the time I got to the car, tears of frustration were streaming and I knew 'nothing' wasn't going to work for me. She didn't care if I bought her a gift card, but I cared. I wanted her to have a new sweater or something for Christmas - UNDER the tree. It was important to me, if nobody else.

I locked the purchases in the car and went back inside.

Determination had filled me to the brim and I was set on finding a gift for my daughter. I pushed the cart up and down several aisles in the store before I saw it. On a shelf near eye level, inside a snow globe were two angels, one bigger angel and one very small angel, appearing to be mother and daughter. On the front of the globe was a small brass plate that said, "I see me in you!"

As I pushed the cart with my new, boxed purchase toward the cash register, my second time through, I saw a beautiful dark red sweater. Just the right size, cut with a deep v-neck, the sweater would follow my daughter's curves and still fit well. I put the sweater in the cart and added a pretty necklace from the table near the front of the store. Three gifts that I could see her loving on Christmas morning, and I paid for them as I left the store through Aisle 9.

Tebow - The Slice for Today!

In case anyone wonders about Charger-Mom, I'm Charger "the Mom" not the mom of a Charger. But that question isn't likely to come up on a day when the Chargers fall to their demise at the hands of Bronco's best, Tebow.

Tebowing is a family event these days, as we take our bow before the Lord a humble and prayerful moment of Thanksgiving, revealing our favorite pose. Tebow rocks! I'm grateful to the man who made bowing in Praise of our Lord once again an acceptable behavior in the realms of football fans, the world over. Even in these days of religious turmoil, the "Tebow" act can be recognized the world over, as people take the pose.

Today, just for the sake of recognition... The Broncos BEAT the Chargers in a massive GAME Day win of 16 points over 13. And the world took the Tebow. Amen