Yesterday at church there was a young lady in the front row, someone I'd never seen before. This isn't unusual in itself, we go to a pretty big church and there are lots of people I haven't met, yet. Our pastor mentioned that she was getting ready to leave for Iraq and reminded us to pray for her while she was gone. After the service I went to go talk to her to let her know about the cool ties and to see if there was anything she needed. I was really excited to get to talk to a "real live soldier" to get some feedback.
I waited while some other people finished talking to her and I heard her mention "Delavan", which is an area up by Peoria where the National Guard troops deploy out of. I knew this because I've had emails from a lady with Soldiers Angels that's from that area, she asks for cool ties occasionally, and I send them. So I started to get a little more excited when I heard her say "Delavan".
I finally got the chance to talk to her and said something like "You may have heard about this already, but there are a group of us here at Cherry Hills that are making cool ties for the troops". She got really excited and said "I have one in my pocket!" and proceeded to pull it out. Sure enough, it was one from our group, complete with the project tag and everything. I was completely stunned, I couldn't believe it. She said they got these little care bags when they got to Delavan, and these were in the bags. Nobody knew what they were, so they tried them out and now they're already using them in Indiana, where they haven't had air conditioning for the last couple of months. It was so good to FINALLY meet someone who'd gotten one of my cool ties. And they're working! I think I was on cloud 9 for the rest of the day.
Otherwise, a pretty quiet weekend for us. My mom came to town, we putzed around in the little Jeep and got pedicures. Yesterday we went fleece shopping and I picked up another 8 yards. Very slow going on the accumulating...I've still got my fingers crossed that more prints will come out that are appropriate. That's about it.
Posted by tomiandc at June 18, 2007 11:19 AM