Not Sure How to Title This One

Way back in early September a couple of teachers came to Anita and me with the possibility of a wish.  We brainstormed and came up with something we thought would be great.  It's not something we can buy.  It's more of an experience where we had to reach out to an institution and ask for some assistance.  It's something they are known to do on a much bigger scale than we were asking for.  I was excited about this one because it is a cool wish and it should be easily attainable and I was sure it was going to be our first wish of the year.  I was wrong.

We came up with a good solid plan of approaching it and went through someone who knows someone.  That person was thrilled to help so all was well.  I've worked on this wish once a week since early September just waiting for the day I knew it was a done deal.  As time went on and our contact hasn't been able to completely seal the deal I decided to go through official channels.  I was supposed to hear a response in 5 business days.  Well that was 7 business days ago.  So this morning I walked in my classroom and looked at my very cluttered desk and prayed "Lord please let today be the day something opens up in the wish world."  I was totally thinking about this one should be simple wish. 

What happened today was a different much bigger wish opened up and it's so hard for me to keep a secret but it will be AMAZING.  So at the end of the day as I was working on details of that one huge wish and I took a deep breath and realized that one simple wish that I've been waiting so long for STILL hasn't come through.  I thought about just letting it go.  But that's the thing about Winter Wishes something gets put on our hearts.  Even when it doesn't seem like a big deal there's just something that keeps some of these on my mind.  So maybe on day 8 of 8 business days something will happen.

Back to the wish that did fall into place today.  I'm so thankful God has put me back in the Elgin community.  The way the people love our kids and do such great and generous acts is truly incredible.