My Dear Sabrina

Every Wednesday, for the past four weeks, my dear daughter Sabrina packs up her two little boys and comes over to help me for the day. On this day, she does a variety of things that have been a great help to me ~ and one of them is to write my thank you notes each week.

As many of you know, I had surgery on my right shoulder five weeks ago, and writing things down on paper is still something that I am not able to easily do.

The other day, as I looked at her sitting in the chair with a pen in her hand and a pile of blank notes on her lap, I couldn't help but think of a PBS documentary on the many "Ladies in Waiting" that help Queen Elisabeth keep up her personal correspondence each week. The Queen receives thousands of letters each month and is adamant about answering each one of them with a handwritten note.

Although I don't receive thousands of letters each month, I do receive dozens and dozens of gifts and meals and other gestures that I want to make sure I respond gratefully to, and I'm so thankful for my very own "Lady in Waiting" that I have in Sabrina.

I sure do appreciate everything that Sabrina has done to help me in the past few weeks, and since it would not be appropriate for me to dictate a thank you note for her to write to herself, I thought I would take this opportunity to type her a note publicly so that she will know just how thankful I am for her willingness to be such a sweet servant to me in my time of great need.

Here it goes . . .

My Dear Sabrina,

Just a note to let you know how much I appreciate EVERYTHING that you have done for the past five weeks to help me. Mere words cannot express the gratitude that I feel in my heart for the kind way you have cared for my needs in such a gracious way.

Thank you for coming over every week and cleaning my house, making sure my laundry gets done, and going to the grocery store for me. Thank you for writing my thank you notes for me and returning phone calls for me as well.

Thank you for organizing and hosting the shower for Ashley this past weekend, she loved it and everyone else thought it was a great success! Thank you for stepping up and giving the devotional and making sure the church was all cleaned up afterward. You are amazing.

Thank you for helping me put together the home school yearbook. I appreciate your willingness to put your artistic ability to work and get this project done for me while I am busy at home trying to get better.

Thanks for figuring out my ice pack machine and making sure I get "iced" up while you are here.

Thanks for sitting around and talking to me. For listening to me. For making sure that I have something to read and something to eat. Thanks for calling me all the time to make sure I am ok.

Thanks for bringing the little ones over so I can visit with them. It brightens my whole day when I get to see them.

Thanks for ironing my clothes, cleaning out my fridge, cooking me breakfast and lunch and washing my bedding and blankets. Thanks for caring for my house like I would while I am not able to.

Thanks for picking up Dad's shirts from the cleaners, for making Dad lunch when he comes home, for being such a loving daughter and for being such a great friend.

I don't know what I would do without you Sabrina, and I'm so glad I don't have to know. You are such a blessing to me and I appreciate you so very much.

With So Much Gratitude & Love,
Mom

Sabrina really is amazing. In addition to taking care of me for the past five weeks, she has also kept up her duties as a wife to her busy husband, and mommy to her little children, a servant at her local church and a keeper of her own home duties! I'm not really sure how she does it . . . but I'm so very grateful that she does.