Your Neighborhood Nail Tech...

Woke up to the annoying alarm on my iPhone. Hit snooze twice. Finally dragged myself out of bed, woke up the boys, packed lunches for three, this one got a shower, this one needs a bath, this one needs his hair fixed...and yadda,yadda, yadda. You know the routine if you are a parent. So then it is two off on the bus, time to make myself look presentable to the outside world, and off to drop one off at preschool. (If your wondering about # 4, he is already at school by this time, and dad gets the honors of getting him off on the bus). Then it is time to hit the coffee shack, as I call it for my normal..vanilla latte.



This is when my morning becomes slightly different from the norm. Instead of enjoying me time, or time cleaning the house or an exspensive trip to Target, I drove to an elderly womans house, who just broke her hip recently and can't get around to well these days. She loved the couple of times she came to the shop to see me and I also went out to her house one other time before, which she loved...I went there to do her fingers and toes. (phelanges as I like to call them, for some reason when you use the proper anatomy terms people seem to laugh..try it sometime, it's kinda fun) Hence the title "Your Neighborhood Nail Tech".



When I walked into her house on this cold February morning, she was so happy. She was tickled pink that I was coming to do her hands and feet. She was ecstatic!! I honestly do not think that anyone has ever appreciated something that I have done for them, the way she did. You would have thought that I just presented her with the Publishers Clearing House check for 1 million dollars!

Her stories are so enjoyable to listen to. She often talks of her 8 children, she is SO proud of them. This day she was telling me about this bump on her leg. I am sitting on the floor, her feet are in the whirlpool tub and she shows me this bump. "now this here bump, well I had this since my daughter was just a baby, I bumped my leg and it has never gone away." Next is what got me.."When I went to have one of my surgeries the doctor said maybe I should have it removed. I said no just leave it there it doesn't bother anything." Why this got me, I am not sure, but I think it is due to the fact that she didn't want to have that memory removed. In today's world we are so quick to remove those scars and bumps. How many memories, good and bad, do we actually take the time to remember? Seriously!



I have learned through doing pedicures and manicures that God never gives me a client that I don't learn something from. It is amazing what people will tell you when you have their foot or hand in your hand. Their conversation comes right from the heart. Sometimes we just need to take "our time" and make it "someone elses time", it is truly amazing what we can learn. I feel truly blessed to have gone to her house that cold morning and shared my time with her. Can't wait to do it again..

Do you have any scars that you're trying to remove? Just remember those scars are a part of what made us who we are today!!