Good Days

3/21/13 I got into town finally on Thursday afternoon.  Mary was doing great!  We even made it to our favorite place for happy hour with some very good friends.  We had a really fun first day.

3/22/13  Mary and I went and shopped for wigs.  We found (what I think is) the perfect wig for Mary.  It really looks pretty close to what her hair looks like naturally.  Pretty amazing.  It was quite a bit harder for her to pick one out than she thought though.  It was a pretty intense process mentally.  For someone who has never really colored their hair, or changed their hairstyle too much to start putting on all of these different styles and shades of blonde hair on their head to see what looks good was quite a process.  It was easy for me to see what looked right on her, but it was hard for Mary to see which one was the right one for her.  On the way home she said something out of the blue that I thought was pretty interesting.  She said "If God would grant me a gift, I would ask to see myself as other people see me."  I said "Wow, that's pretty deep!"  and we laughed.  But she was making the point that she just couldn't see what I was seeing when she was trying on the wigs and I knew which one was the one and she didn't.  It really made me think, though, that we need to listen to what people (at least our really good friends) are saying to us when they are encouraging us and talking to us.  Because we need to remember that they are seeing us like they see us, not like we see ourselves.  Whether it be good or bad sometimes.