Whirlwind Week Part 2

After the crew left on moving day there was still a few things to finish, stuff that I really wanted to just do myself so I could organize the stacks a bit more as I went. My sister came home and announced that she would help if we went to FroYo after for Blue4Ben.  Of course I wanted FroYo  and FroYo with proceeds going to a good cause is even better.  We worked for a little while and then went out.

I’m certain at this point that anyone reading this in Buffalo knows what Blue4Ben is, but for you out of towners I’ll explain a bit.  This is from Ben’s mom’s Blog called  "Pray for Ben Sauer: A little Boy waiting on a miracle"

“Ben is an active four-year-old who loves playing in the backyard finding snakes, frogs and worms. He builds forts, plays with sticks and likes to shoot his brother with dart guns. As a twin, we always dressed Ben in blue so others could tell him apart from his identical twin brother Jack. And now, Benis waiting on  a miracle.”

Ben was diagnosed with a rare cancerous brain tumor and his family is asking God to heal Ben.  They’re also asking everyone else to ask God to heal Ben.  Blue4Ben has been the community’s response.  There have been entire schools dressed in Blue to show they’re praying for Ben, businesses have had Blue4Ben days to help offer financial support, the Peace Bridge (an international bridge to Canada) lights were all turned on Blue.   Everyone here knows about Ben.  We pray for Ben at youth group each week.  Asking God to heal Ben.  His mother has been writing about their journey and it has been encouraging to see her faith and testimony of God’s goodness in the midst of such a hard time.  She’s shared the sorrows and joys of watching her little boy struggle with this cancer.  If you’re reading about this for the first time please pray for Ben and his family!!

Well FroYo went Blue4Ben and my sister and I had blue sprinkles on top of some super delicious frozen yogurt.  It was definitely the right call after a hard day’s work.  You don’t get much better than frozen yogurt topped with blackberries, hot Nutella fudge, almonds and of course Blue sprinkles.  Now the day could’ve ended there, but suddenly I now had an empty apartment with a small orange cat, all alone, with no furniture.

I had not planned on moving Phib (Short for Mephibosheth) that day, because I hadn’t really planned on moving all the furniture that day.  Well my sister and I went back home.  My mom had arrived and we discussed the Phib dilemma, see she has other cats and a couple dogs so I was a little leery of introducing Phib to a new home with new “friends”, but we came to the conclusion that it had to be done.  .  . Next time we’ll continue this story with the Journey of Phibo.