Now THAT was very weird !!!!!!!!

     Have you ever had a daydream come true???

     Recently Aly (Peter's daughter) was given a giant stuffed Zebra that her Grandmother Jensen bought her when they were all at Sam's Club.  Audrey & Ethan (Becky's kids) were over here on Saturday and Audrey took quite a shine to this huge, very soft critter and seemed to love lying and sitting on top of it.

     Jill told me that there had been lots of animal choices at Sam's and that one of them Aly almost chose was an elephant.  My ears pricked right up on that!   Elephanta are Audrey's favorite animal and she has a birthday coming up.  I decided the $20 price was right and a cuddly elephant would be a great gift choice.

    But I know how quickly seasonal merchandise can deplete so I went to bed just thinking about how urgent it was to get to Sam's club & check and how much I still wanted there to be an elephant! Sometimes a thought like that will play itself into a whole scenario in my mind and that happened as I drifted off to sleep.   I "dreamed" of being in Sam's and seeing another lady with a shopping cart that had one of the elephants in it and my saying something to her like, "Oh...that's what I came looking for too.  Where did you find that one?"  I was aware of wanting her to give up hers to me and in the "dream" that is exactly what she did.  "She said, "here you can have this one."

     The next day I went as soon as Sam's opened.  I had other items to get and another couple of ideas to look for for Christmas so was just wandering the isles.  I was by some furniture items when I turned and there right behind me was a lady with a shopping cart with a huge elephant in it!    I gasped and said, "There it is!!  That's what I came to Sam's to get!   Where did you find it cuz I haven't seen the display yet!"    She said, "Ya know... my son just threw that in the cart as a possibility for our grandson's birthday.   Here, YOU take it because I want to look for something else."    The skin all over my arms just prickled.  "Are you SURE???   If I go find another one would you like me to look for you and come give this one back? "  
     "No," she said.... "you just take it."  And she turned and went on her way

     I thanked her profusely and went off with my prize.....  but the whole rest of the remainder of the shopping I just had this eery, that-was-so-weird feeling!   I eventually came to the stuffed animal display.  There was one more elephant.   So I realized I would have eventually come to it in the course of my normal shopping and would have been able to take the last elephant.    .......so why did my daydream/nightdream actually play outself out like that????    Did someone else have the other elephant and then decide to put it back?   Would I have missed it?         Soooooooooooooooo  weird!

(Audrey had better love this elephant! I will spiffy it up with a lime green bow to match Becky's home decor)