Our snow creature for this year was..... a CHUCK! We tried to make a duck, but the snow wouldn't pack enough for us to make a good head. So we made a chicken head. So it is part duck, part chicken... and really funny looking! Needless to say I am the LEAST proud of this snow creation. Hopefully we can make a different one to be this year's. But at least we had fun doing it... and it snowed afterwards so I don't have to be embarrassed by it anymore!
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| Water bottle- attempting to harden the snow. |
I lost my phone on my walk to the zoo to meet up with some friends. Later I realized that that's where I lost it when it wasn't in the car or the house. So, I set out to find it, without much hope of actually accomplishing that. Weston has had a sore throat and has been edgy lately so I had been flustered when I'd gotten ready and stuffed everything into my coat pockets, so they were pretty full. When he'd let me out of the car I'd had to hop over a large puddle and I started trudging though and un-shoveled sidewalk. When looking for the phone the puddle was way bigger and... the sidewalk was plowed... which was my first sign that this could end up being a fruitless search. I'd then gotten on to the road to walk better and had to run around another puddle to get out of the middle of the road, at which point things flew out of my pockets and I had to go back and pick them up. I looked over this stretched 3 times before moving on... no phone. On my walk I'd then gotten smart and zipped up my pockets, so in my search I was kind of giving up. At which point I'm not proud to say, but I was starting to get kind of frustrated with Weston for rushing me so much this morning, and kind of blaming him for the situation.... VERY un-Christlike and un-grateful and un-fair of me. So after stewing and looking while I walked along a main road and crossed a busy intersection I started to realize the error of my ways and what I was doing. Thankfully I had the presence of mind to start praying for a softened heart, and miraculously it came! I completely stopped being mad at Weston! During this prayer (it was obviously a watchful, alert prayer) I'd been thinking about how I'm really hard on my phones, and how if I didn't find it, it would work out somehow. So I added in the prayer that if I found it that would be nice, but if not I'd be ok. I was now approaching a spot where I'd helped a woman get her car unstuck from the snow. In the process I'd slipped and fallen. I think I remember getting a granola bar (the rest of my breakfast) out of my pocket before this so it probably wasn't very well zipped up. So in my search/simultaneously while praying/ I was thinking that I'd at least check this spot because I thought it was right after that that I realized I didn't have my phone when I was going to call and tell my friends I'd be a little late. As soon as I ended my prayer I called my phone again (using Weston's). And immediatly I heard mine! I was utterly suprised and amazed! So I went over to the spot and found my phone halfway buried in snow and partially run over but still working!!! Luckily it seems the snow is soft enough that the tire just pressed it deeper into the snow. There seems to be some water in the screen but with the fact that snow was starting to melt it's crazy that it still worked! What's even crazier is that the ringer doesn't work today (the rest of the sound does and the microphone does, so I've just set it on vibrate) but the ringer doesn't, so it's awesome that it worked yesterday!
So, wahoo! I can now say that I've experience the lost and found by prayer miracle that so often gets told by other people! And whether it would have been there if I hadn't prayed, probably. But I definitely wouldn't have been in the right frame of mind to really appreciate it, or I might even have been too frustrated to look very hard for it. So that was the real miracle.
