Everyone needs a Madge

She's the ups when I am the downs :)
she knows when to get on the cutting edge with me and have some fun
and she knows when to keep her mouth shut!
and she will go to the ends of the earth for you or even to the Equator and back :)

and she can show you the ropes on how to travel-she has been just about everywhere around the world!

Everyone needs a Madge in their life! I'm telling you she has been a wonderful friend and a double wonderful Mission trip partner/VBS leader/friend to me these past 4 years.

We have several things in common that bond us together besides a true friendship and the fact that we really don't like to paint but we do like to mud a wall now that we know how to!
We both have/had red hair (ha), same maiden name, grew up with wonderful maids named Inez, grew up in the Methodist Church, went to Auburn, retired in Auburn, love to sew, smock, embroider, love birds, love to take photos, love to play mexican dominoes, and now we both have red headed grandsons who carry our genes!

When we both signed up to go on our first Mission trip 4 years ago, it was a given that we wanted to room together. We giggled and laughed at each other through out the trip and were truly geeks over our theme of puppetts playing into everything that week in Ecaudor. Then it happened again in Costa Rica and we high fived each other every time we saw a heart that year. And we certainly were on cloud 9 when we got to raft down the river together in Costa Rica and see the howler monkeys in the trees together.

Now this year it is ANTS! We are so silly over how the ants have been such a good theme for our VBS plans in Nicaragua and can hardly wait to see just how God will use this whole Proverbs 6:6 theme. Right after we declared the ant verse was IT, Madge went shopping and surprised me one afternoon with this special little gift. It will always make me smile as it captures the last 4 years of our geeky theme loving natures and friendship!
Oh, how I wish you all had a Madge!