Atlanta qualifies as that category. Good thing I do not just follow waze directions and I read the signs too. I put in the app that I was going to the Hartfield Jackson International Airport. Until I started getting closer in distance I realized I do not want the international but the domestic. I did ok but I went to the wrong side. My son called me and thought that was the right one but actually it was the other side. So I drive slowly and I do not see a cell phone parking lot. The traffic person at the airport re-directed me to where I needed to go. I got there fine and I did enjoy watching the planes taxi as they are in line to take off. I did snap a few pictures I will post also.
Thank God my son drove after I greeted him. We enjoyed visiting and exchanging gifts. I then had to go back to where I was staying. I used to split my time at both places until he got a younger more agile cat that jumps up on the bed. Not for me. The other cat was older and he would create a barrier for the cat so it would not come in the bedroom and jump on the bed while I was sleeping. Let me tell you that I think Atlanta does not sleep really. There was a lot of traffic on the highways even after 10:30pm at night. This was truly a labor of love for me because I am learning to drive in metropolitan city traffic but I do prefer to drive in the outskirts of the city limits where it is not so congested.
For some reason I had some tuna fish salad last night when I got home and I probably should not have done that. I began to get vertigo as I laid down to sleep. I slept but when I woke up I had it again slightly along with a stomach ache. I think the tuna fish salad was the issue. We did not make the tuna fish salad I purchased it a few days ago. I am now thinking I am a few hours away from home and I have to drive home yet.
Good thing I did the majority of packing the night before. I actually vomited and I thought to myself oh no I cannot be sick now I have to go home. Believe it or not my family rallied around me. My sister helped me zipper up my suitcase and my niece also helped with me taking down my luggage and packing the car for me. I travel not light so to speak. I really have to work on that because I take outfits in the event I want to wear them and of course, I over packed by maybe two outfits this time. So I get downstairs and my sister makes me dry toast and a soft boiled egg. She also told me that carrots, celery, almonds help when travelling on a plane and get motion sickness so she packed some for me. She even made me a cup of tea to take with me for the journey home.
I packed up and said my goodbyes and on the road I go. I knew to stop and get some ginger ale and peppermint hard candy if I needed it while driving. I began to feel better and better as I drove. They all prayed for me during the day, including my mother also. Glad that I made it home safely and already did 2 loads of laundry, put the suitcases away and I still have the evening to rest.
I knew I had to listen to music on this journey home and Holy Spirit sort of nudged me to listen to Never Alone by James W. Goll. I obliged Him and it was when the song "Stick Together" came on that was going to be the song to play on repeat for this journey. That song ministered to me. I know it is about a daughter and a father singing to each other. It was the song connecting me with my family today and how they nursed me back to health and continued to pray for me so I would be ok and get home safely. That is what family is all about.
My mother was a little under the weather this weekend and I offered to pray for her with the anointing oil. She declined but it does not mean I declined in praying for her. I prayed and in the thank you card she gave to me as I was leaving she thanked me for my prayers. Isn't that what family is all about? When she was not feeling well I brought home the soup she wanted. So she made a really good zucchini soup and I had a bowl of it the other day. She gave me the rest of it so I had it tonight. She had the soup I got her the other day she was going to eat.
Do you treasure your family? You should for that is what matters in life. How one rallies around the other in their time of need and vice versa in your time of need. Family is a beautiful gift God gives to us. Not every family is perfect I am not even sure if the perfect family actually exists. If you are with family give them a great big hug and tell them you love them.
Oh, by the way, my children did get me an instamatic camera for Christmas. I enjoyed spending time with my son last night and I was highly blessed the prior days spending time with my family also. FAMILY FAMILY FAMILY that is the word today. Love and bless your family for God does that for His family. He loves and blesses us, His children.
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