Airport Angel

Arms full, sweat well everywhere!, screaming hungry tired child, full bladder, full diaper (on Owen), flight to catch, not enough time for anything! This is what things looked like in July as we prepared to fly to Alabama to spend a week with Great Grandma.

I walked into the bathroom desperate for a plug to warm Owen's bottle. Wouldn't you know the plug was too far from the counter and the bottle warmer would not reach the counter. A woman came up to me... AN ANGEL! She said, "what can I help you with..." I just looked at her and had no clue what to say. I just started murmuring in confused speech about the cord and warm milk. She said, here I will hold it so you can do other things. I looked at her in amazement... "Okay, thank you" I responded. (Let me paint the picture here, this is a busy airport bathroom and here is this woman standing near the entrance just holding a bottle warmer in the air while it cooks.) I went and changed Owen's diaper and washed my hands. As soon as my hands hit the water I was overwhelmed with the sensation of my aching full like a bucket leaving a well bladder. The woman still stood there waiting for the milk to finish warming. I strapped my screaming wrestling child into his stroller. She said, "I will stand here, I will watch him, you can go to the bathroom, its okay." I walked into a stall left the door partially opened and listened to my baby scream while I peed and a STRANGER watched my child. I was so desperate I simply could not care.

I refer to this woman as a stranger but in actuality she was my airport angel. I came out, washed my hands, she discreetly handed me to bottle so Owen would not see it, she had wrapped up the bottle warmer and had it ready for me to put away, then she said "I am on my way to visit my Grand kids... I completely understand how it is. You are a great mommy."

"You are a great mommy."

I wanted to burst out in tears because in my mind I was thinking "Oh no! I left my kid with a stranger. Mike is going to kill me!!! What is wrong with me!? I am a horrible mommy! HORRIBLE!" God spoke to me through this woman. God showed me that He always finds a way to help His children in need. God showed me that He can speak through others mouths in a way that penetrates straight to my heart. God showed me that He is near! Always near!

So thank you to that airport angel grandma! May God bless and keep you!