After visiting my sister in Salt Lake and Wade having a couple job interviews :) we came home Saturday evening. My sisters husband got very sick while we were there. Unfortunately a little while after we got home each of us girls got the terrible stomach flu. First Lydia, then Andrea, and I could feel it coming on as I was next. Luckily Wade and Damon did not get it. Wade was right there taking turns helping each of us. This sickness is something I get very often. Once a year or every other year. I don't understand it. Even as a young child I constantly got the stomach flu. Its this one sickness I always get. The rest of the time I am so strong and healthy. Luckily it is always a 24 hour bug or less. But miserable every minute until it passes. I thought to myself during it how weak our bodies are. How easy it is to wipe us completely out and unable to do anything. And yet how strong our bodies can be. The girls and I took turns round and round throwing up and Wade emptying our bowls. Misery!!!
Through all of this at about 10:30 all three of us are still going strong dry heaving when the door bell rings 3 times fast. Wade goes to the door and opens it to see no one. He quickly closes the door and back to helping us. A few minutes later the door bell rings with some vigorous knocking. Wade is holding the bowl for Lydia and doesn't bother answering it. A few minutes later we hear someone banging really hard on the door. I am on the bed moaning and helpless. I hear Wade storm into our room and say, "those punk kids are going to die!" He puts his shoes on and his big coat and grabs his BB gun. I ask, "What are you doing?" "Don't use that!"
He goes to the garage door and is about to go out the side of the house to try to get those teenage boys (he is thinking someone in our ward), when his phone rings.
"Hello?"
"Will you please open the front door!"
He goes to the door and opens it to find a huge box filled with food and food stacked on top of it!
It was the biggest surprise ever!
Wade says to me, "Someone just spent at least $200 on food and left it at the door!"
This was not just any food. It was all kinds of expensive quality food. Steaks, turkey, lunch meat, bacon, sausage, eggs, juices, nuts, candy, pineapple, kiwis, oranges, avocados, gum, cookies, chips, salsa, cereal, dips, bagels, cream cheese, hot chocolate, milk, Ben and Jerri's Ice cream, sherbet, oil, all kinds of things!!
I was really overwhelmed (in the morning when the sickness past!) when I saw all the food. The vast amount, the variety, and quality was so great. Food that I could no way buy right now. It made our burden feel a little bit lighter. I'll never forget this time in my life. Never forget this gift of Christmas cheer. I hope to brighten someones Christmas like they did for ours in the Christmas' to come.
Angels really do live among us. As I was rummaging through this box with amazement at the things I kept finding I thought, "This feels like Christmas."
