The Next Aldi Star???

After leaving a "big boy underwear" wearing Ephraim at Children's Morning Out, I headed to the Aldi" as I call it. I had determined this morning that I was going to be an encourager today. I was going to use my words to uplift and encourage those I encountered.

I decided I was going to speak to the manager who was stocking the freezer and let her know how much I appreciated her work and "the Aldi" as a whole. I shared with her my recent experience of serving appetizers for the faculty at Carson's school. How all the food was from Aldi and how each one that commented on the spread was so surprised. Anyway, as I gushed about Aldi, I shared how my mother had taught me by example to through a party simply and well from the Aldi bounty. I also shared how my sister "4h champ" had always been an Aldi shopper and had visited the Aldi in Germany. She thanked me for my kind words and I went to check out.

While I was sacking my groceries (in my fabulous canvas bags that my sister "4h champ" gave me for Christmas one year), the manager approached me again. She said she had thought about what I had told her and she thought it would make a great commercial for Aldi. They don't usually advertise, but they had recently started running commercials in the last year, usually using store employees. She asked me for my name and number and said she was going to pass the information along to her District Manager who would be in this week.

I was stunned. I don't expect to get a call, and I am not sure that I want one, but I was pleased that she had responded to my encouragement. I know that God wants to use His people in many different ways, and I think the simple ways are the ways He works most mightily in. I may never get a call from Aldi, but I have a call from my Heavenly Father to be an encourager and a servant. To what is God calling you?

By way of update, when I picked up Ephraim from Children's Morning Out, five hours later, he was still wearing the same clean/dry big boy underwear and clothes. Another answered prayer. And as for Carson, he has also had answered prayer as he has been able to move up two levels in his reading and is very proud of his accomplishments as are we and his teacher. I am finding that my call as a mother is by far the greatest joy and challenge, I have encountered. I am comforted by the fact that no matter how much things change in our family that God never changes. And I thought about the fact that He never wastes opporotunities in our life, He uses the good and the not so pleasant places to teach and grow us. I keep growing as my boys are growing and I know that even potty training and first grade will pass before I know it.