Another PreChristmas busy day. Bible study at 9:30AM. There were 7 of us there. We had a lively discussion of the story of the 5 loaves and 2 fishes that fed 5000 men. We talked about how Jesus felt sorry for all these people who had followed him and told his disciples to feed them. Then the 5 loaves and 2 fishes fed them all. It was Jesus' love and sympathy that did it.

Kathy Keyes told a beautiful story today. She works at Mary's Room. Mary's room tries to provide diapers and food to mothers who are having difficulty making ends meet. She said that often these women come in very demanding, like the free items are owed to them.

However, last Monday a young woman came in with her baby. She told them that she is totally alone. She is in her early 20s and had her baby alone. The baby is of mixed race and Kathy said he is adorable. But this woman told them that the baby's father totally turned her away and her parents will not talk to her and refuse to accept the baby. She loves her son and is trying but is so alone and depressed.

There was another lady in there asking for supplements to her family, also mixed race. Her husband has been ill and they are really short of things. She came for diapers and food for her three month old. She had a toddler with her who was stroking the other woman's baby and cooing and playing with him.

The second lady asked for a pen and paper. She wrote her name, number and address on the paper and gave it to the first lady. Then she told her that she would like her and her baby to join them for Thanksgiving. She said that obviously, her daughter loved the baby and they would be welcome. Then she went out into her car and got a $10 dollar bill and gave it to the lonely mother so that she would not run out of food or diapers for her baby boy.

Talk about the widow's mite. This was goodness in action and Kathy said it made all her hours at Mary's room worth the time.

Next stop was Mom's . Mom had an ear doctor appointment. Jeff took her. He helped me wrap up the deer hides in paper and put them in a box. Tomorrow Bobbie and I will take them to Hartford to WB leather for tanning. I know that I will have more than enough now to make a nice deer hide coat. As I told Jeff. I will take them there and leave them. Then when one has almost forgotten that one left them there, they suddenly arrive by UPS. It is like Christmas in March or April.

Home again, we got Dick all cleaned up for his doctor appointment. Dr. Moreno looked at his wounds and said that they are much better. We now have a new topical medicine and will only have to change it once a day for two days and then once every three days until we go back to see Dr. Moreno in two weeks.

That was all I had to do today. Now it is time to wind down for the night. I am sure glad. I am tired. Boy is that new bed nice though. I really had trouble getting myself to crawl out of bed this morning. There never seems to be enough time to rest.

Do you believe that tomorrow is December 1st already? I can't and my Christmas schedule is hopelessly behind. There is an old saying that goes. The hurrider I go the behinder I get.

God love you

Mary