An Unexpected Blessing!!

The Lord is good!! And He does, indeed, go before us! (Even before us to Home Depot!!!)
Let me set the story!

The background:
For those of you who do not know, I am about to venture out again in the remodeling world with my guest bathroom. Yes, I have apparently suppressed all memory of the kitchen remodeling nightmare of 2007 and have willingly signed up for another round. It all began a few months back when the air conditioner (which is in the ceiling in the guest bathroom) began leaking. The water leak completely ruined the ceiling causing it to peel and fall apart. We had to rip the whole ceiling out (there still isn't a ceiling to this day!) and replace the AC. Not fun. On top of that, the bathtub in the guest bathroom is falling apart too - it is peeling and rusting....and it just completely ruins the whole "bath" experience (you girls know what I mean). After much dragging of my feet, I decided it was past time to remodel the bathroom. But I must tell you all that just the thought of hiring a contractor, planning out what I want done, picking out the tub, tile, paint color, etc makes me want to curl up in a ball and hide in a closet. hahaha!

OK...now to catch you up-to-date:

I, finally, got motivated this past Saturday to go shopping to look at tile, vanity sinks, and bathtubs. To be honest, I was kind-of stressed about it. ...I don't know what to look for, what not to look for, what looks good together, etc. I don't have a "eye" for this kind of thing at all!

I did find this real pretty "antique looking" vanity sink that I liked ALOT at this one store....it was EXACTLY what I wanted! BUT...after some thought in the store - it was just too costly! blast! I drove home feeling defeated and discouraged. When I got home, I got on homedepot.com and looked through their vanities. I found 3 or so that seemed to look nice and the price was about half the price of the other vanity I had my eye on. I hopped in the car and drove a few exits down to Home Depot. I walked up and down the aisle looking at the pictures on the outside of all the boxes, but I didn't see any of the ones I liked on the website. Errr. I was just about to give up and I saw one of them sitting on a cart - it wasn't boxed, but saran- wrapped. Hmmmm....is it coming or going? Somebody beat me to it, I bet. What bad timing I thought! I asked a saleswoman - she informed me that it was bought back in January but that the buyer never came and picked it up so it was going back on the shelf. Oooooh. This could be promising!! This other lady that she was helping turned and looked at the vanity when she said that and commented on how nice it was. BACK OFF! It's mine! (Ok, I didn't say it, but I thought it!! hahaha!) The saleswoman told me to roll the cart up to the front and ask a manager to price it for me (it didn't have a sku #). The manager told the customer service employee to try to look up the customer's name and the delivery number written on the delivery tag to get the price that was paid for it.....but nothing came up. The customer service employee called the manager to let him know. When he got off the phone with the manager, he told me "ma'am it is your lucky day..............$50" WHAT?!?!?!? SOLD!!! ( I jumped up and down and squealed!) I think I said a few "Amens!" somewhere in there too! He had to find an item nearby that was around $50 so he could ring it up so he could charge me for the vanity....he ended up finding something that was $41 so with tax it rang up like $45.

Isn't that awesome!?!?! I was giddy and praising the Lord the WHOLE way home!! I know that unexpected blessing was from Him! I thanked Him over and over in delight and amazement! He does care about the big AND LITTLE things in our life and He honors when we cast our cares, worries, concerns, and fears on Him!

Thank you Lord for the sink vanity!