Last week Tuesday, the 17th, was another crappy Tuesday. Just knowing it was 3 weeks since he had died. It was a weird morning and I was woke up by my 2 year old turning on my radio/alarm clock in my room. It’s been months since he’s touched the thing. I got mad for a second because this is the radio/alarm clock Bob has had for years, he had it when he lived with his parents and had it longer than the 11 years I’ve known him. I was just afraid it would get broken or something. It’s a digital clock and when I looked at it to turn off after he touched it, it said 8:08 (it was really 7:08 but I haven’t changed half of the clocks in my house since the time change) and I immediately read BOB. Bob and I always said it’s “BOB time” if the clock read 8:08 so I took this as another sign from him. It immediately made me smile and remember some of the good times.
That night both of the kids weren’t listening and refusing to go to sleep, it was another rough night. I finally got Caleb to bed and Logan says to me, “I’m sad because Daddy doesn’t love me anymore”. I started to explain to him how much daddy does love him and wishes he could be here but even though he’s not physically here with us that he’s still watching over us and then I get a text message from our friend Bill. I read it and started to cry. Logan looks at me, gives me a hug and says, “it’s okay, I’ll take care of you”. He’s such a sweet boy sometimes.
I asked my friend Bill if I could share what he wrote so here it is:
“How are things? I had a interesting thing happen the other day and thought I’d share… So I was reading your post when you wrote it, the one about Bob letting you know he’s watching over you guys, I was sitting in Hardee’s drive through and obviously teared up. One time me and Bob were chatting a couple months ago and I told him he better let us know he’s ok up there if things didn’t work out. Rattle some chains, etc… He laughed and said he would be more creative than that. So when I saw your post I automatically smiled. I thought to myself, maybe he will give me a sign as well…. When I pulled up to the window the worker said the woman in front of me had paid for me and told her to tell me that she just felt she had to pay for me and to have a great day….”
How awesome is that?! To me that’s another sign from Bob and just makes me believe even more that he’s watching over the boys and I and our family/friends. It’s weird how these things happen on Tuesdays but maybe it’s Bob’s way of showing me that every Tuesday doesn’t have to suck.
Be open to the signs.
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