Sometimes it seems like I’m surrounded by good ideas. They’re swirling and dancing around me like enigmatic sylphic nymphs, their gossamer wings too feathery and swift to fully grasp and study them.
The home and garden channel is like that to me… one good idea after another after another. I mentally get out the paint brushes and fuchsia and orange paint and plot a project when it’s overtaken by the idea of putting random pieces of wallpaper on a floor and preserving them forevermore with varathane. Gorgeous! But wait – here’s a better idea….get yourself some old toilet paper tubes and then you…
You get the gist.
Recently, the best idea in a sea of great ideas was handed to me by my daughter, Lisa.
Her husband, Rick’s birthday was last week. Besides a gift she gave him a Thanksgiving dinner. A Thanksgiving dinner! Now isn’t that just a fabulous idea?!
Lisa’s life has been so blessed by this man and she wanted to thank him for being a wonderful caring husband and an awesome father. So she and the kids bought a whopping big turkey and when he came home from work last Wednesday he encountered a Thanksgiving feast all the trimmings, right down to the green bean casserole.
Sometimes the best ideas are the simplest, and the ones that come from the heart. Maybe your husband or wife or your entire family needs the loving surprise of a Thanksgiving dinner. If my husband didn’t know about Lisa’s idea I’d be planning such a dinner myself. So what if he doesn’t like turkey. He’d love the pumpkin pie.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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