So Amie read my post and emailed me after making 3 comments (which I enjoyed) and asked if there was anything we needed.
She is a couponing queen and had just posted this picture of her $1.67 score on her blog the day before, so I said we were on our last roll of paper towels and almost out of dish soap.
Here's what she brought me about 5 hours later! The bag was so heavy I thought it might break! I was rushing off to meet Claudia at Thanksgiving Point, so I didn't get to see what was inside right then, but I was touched by Amie's kindness and generosity and once again so grateful to have good friends!
This is what she managed to fit inside that bag! It's like Christmas, but better!
**Are you being trained to be empathetic?
Do friends save your bacon regularly?
What are you out of right now?**
Do friends save your bacon regularly?
What are you out of right now?**
Comment Window Tidbit: I am loving these cool nights and mornings we're having and really love having the windows open. I like to think that helps freshen the place and air out any old people smells we've got going on, but I'm probably fooling myself.
19 comments:
This is so so sweet! It makes me want to start couponing, if only to have things on hand that can help someone else.
I agree with the quote on empathy...
I seriously think that some of the trials I've been through have been for the purpose of being able to relate to someone going through something similar...it feels so much better talking to someone who's empathetic verses sympathetic...
Hang in there, sweet friend...
I definitely have learned that some of the experiences I had early in life have helped me be empathetic and also helped Jeff during his time as Bishop. Letting people know that my father is in prison has often opened the doors for them to share their hardships.
I am so glad that Amie is such a good friend!! That is an awesome gift and definitely "like Christmas but better!" :)
Thankfully, we are not out of anything right now but we go through toilet paper like crazy and so that is what I am usually running low on. :)
What an amazingly kind friend!
Yes, I've been in empathy training for the past 2 years. After my husband and I both lost our jobs and started new ones (at greatly reduced salaries). Looking back and forward I really am not sure how we make it. That being said I'm currently saying lots of prayers that we will be able to pay our rent this month.
This is such a NICE thing - I am getting tears just looking at the picture!
What a thoughtful thing for Amie to do. It's amazing how things like that can make us all feel like we can make it and are not alone.
Now that is a great question, "Are you being trained to be empathetic?" I like it.
I'm hoping with my windows open it helps keep the urine smell out from Ry. He is a loose cannon now that he is potty trained and Ash taught him to stand and pee. Dang Ash.
Amie is so awesome to do this for you! I tend to not let friends help me out much. I hate feeling weak which is silly, but I am more willing to help others than the other way around.
I am out of cream of potato soup. I thought I grabbed some but grabbed cream of celery.
What a wonderful friend...so thoughtful! A little tender mercy...He knew exactly what you needed that day :) Love it.
Amie's coupon skills are amazing!! I just can't get myself to do it- it seems like so much work to me.
And I know she is a generous person but that things are tight for them too, so how wonderful, even in tight times, to be able to help with such a bounteous bag of things. I don't know how people survive without good friends!
Bread and wax paper.
You have great friends! How fantastic that she was able to share so much! And, I am totally interested in her couponing - I just don't know if I could do it. Perhaps I will email her...
I think that being empathetic is a gift. When you can give a listening ear, a shoulder to cry on or a bag full of goods - it does both parties good.
Hang tight! Things will work out! They always do...
Wow. Talk about a couponing queen! Amie is so amazingly sweet. It's great to have friends like that.
Somedays, I feel like most of my life has been a lesson in empathy.
I ran out of my curlysexyhair shampoo last night. But, it's okay, because I want to try the colormesexy shampoo. I don't have curly or colored hair, but those types of shampoos keep my hair from going major frizz ball.
That Amie rocks!
yes -
i am being trained in empathy..
Yes-
friends save my bacon now & then & wow... I feel lucky to have great friends.
what are we out of...
same thing as you- money!
What a true friend.
And YES, honey. I'm learning empathy. Oh, boy, am I.
I'm almost out of diapers. Bummer.
I think it is kind of amazing that we are all learning empathy and yet we still seem to have so far to go in understanding each other and not being critical of how we are all doing things. It also makes me sad to see so many say they are learning empathy because now I know how many are struggling... we really are all in the same boat with really different views.
I always think that I am empathetic but as I was debating with myself to see if that is true (before I write it, you know) I could think of lots of exceptions... It seems I am a fair weather empathizer (saying I don't have empathy if you are stupid kind of hurts my argument for being empathetic don't you think?). I have a long way to go... and I don't want to have to learn it the hard way.
I'm glad I could help a little. I felt clueless, not being at your house or in your world for so long, I had no idea what brands or things you like anymore. I played it safe... Dawn is safe right? I'm so glad you told me what would help you guys out... I'm totally good with that so if there is anything else please tell!
Although I did wish it was lemon scented for you....
ooh, dawn...that's some good stuff! i would go on a dishwashing rampage! it really is a superior product.
i seriously miss those cool, summer nights. we are still suffering through a sweltering summer. i hope we get some major snow again this year to make up for the misery we've been living through.
This makes me cry....I need to be more empathetic, and I need to ACT on what I feel more often. Twice last week I thought of something I should do for a girl I know, but still haven't done anything.
I am going to do it RIGHT NOW!
Kristi and I talked about this after my grandpa died and people came out of the woodworks to help, even though they didn't know me that well, and so couldn't understand how devastating his loss was. We decided that there is a gift, a spiritual gift, to be able to step in where there is a need, and meet it, or try to, when you haven't been asked and you aren't sure what to do. I think you have to have faith in the power of the gesture.
Everythin I find out about Amie makes me like her even more than i did before. I think these are the reasons that female friendships are so important.
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