Improvise and Overcome

SO.... I needed a couple things from Family Dollar this morning..

Some soap...

Arm & Hammer carpet foam.. the kind that you spray on the carpet after you vacuum. Smells good. I got Island Mist.

Sue was working at Family Dollar today. She started a conversation at checkout, just like we in retail are trained to do:) Asked me how my morning was going so far. And I said

"Great. Not looking forward to the snow this afternoon, though."

A benign conversation about the weather. And Sue said "Well, it will come anyway. So Improvise and Overcome, Dear."

OK Wow.... Pretty sure she didn't mean for me to take that phrase so deeply into my soul this morning.

"Improvise and Overcome".

Probably something her Grandma used to tell her Mom, then her Mom told her, and she tells the ladies that shop at Family Dollar. Don't we Improvise and Overcome EVERY SINGLE day? My favorite socks are dirty. So I wear a different pair. Bummer. But life goes on.

And then there are the big things!

Tomorrow is Zack's birthday.

When he was born, he went right to Primary Children's Medical Center.

And every day was an exercise in "Improvise and Overcome".

Didn't want to face another discouraging day up there at the hospital. But we did. Every day. With the help of the hospitality cart, some basketball cards from the gift shop, the "pumping" room with the other Moms. And we were grateful every day that our little one lived through the night, when there was usually a new empty bed atleast a couple times a week there in the Newborn ICU.

So, thanks Sue, for your words of wisdom this morning. Happy Monday:)