Sad but Blessed

:(

I would like to start this post off by saying that Jared is the most wonderful husband. He is SO good to me, he is a fantastic father, he is a worthy preisthood holder and a righteous presider over our family. He is THE most organized person I have ever known {that is not an exageration,} he is frugal and so good to the things he has. He makes sure that everything that we own lasts as long as it can and that he gets his moneys worth out of it.

That being said, you should know that what I am about to post was an honest mistake and that he was not being careless, it was a total accident...

Jared lost my camera!!!
my fancy, expensive, christmas, birthday, graduation leap year, present.

He is taking a photo class (at my prodding) and the teacher encouraged them to take the camera everywhere with them. He has been riding the bus to school so we can save a little money (like I said, he is frugal) and he was trying to do some homework while on the bus, he didnt realize that his stop was coming and he was talking to my mom (she was watching Kroten while I slept cause I worked last night) and he just had so much going on that he left the camera sitting on the seat. He feels horrible.

LONG story shorter, we called the bus station and they said they wont know if it got turned in to lost and found till Monday. WHAT? MONDAY? That is three days away. YOU WANT US TO WAIT THREE DAYS!!!

So we went to wal-mart, bought a new swiffer (mine broke) and a new fish (Jared's died) and some oil for the car. {exciting I know!} Then went to Dairy Queen and ate way to much ice cream, all of this trying to drown our sorrows.

So Now what?
We knelt down and prayed very hard that Heavenly Father would 1. help us find our camera and 2. comfort us and let us continue to do what needs to be done (school, making Kroten happy, work etc.) because for the time being this was all that was occupying our minds.

Now I am just trying to think... okay, what does the Lord want us to learn from this.

I know this is prolly silly to most of you and it doesn't seem like a big trial, but this is a big deal to us, it was expensive, and I was just starting to get good and sorta confident at this photography thing. What am I going to do now, I have a few jobs lined up!!!

I think what I can learn and what I am TRYING (desperately) to learn is to trust my Father in Heaven. He knows what I am going through. He knows I was enjoying developing this talent and taking pictures of my family, he knows this hurts my feelings, and he knows how badly this makes Jared feel. I know that he will either help us find our camera, help us get a new one or give us peace that is OK. Maybe I need to learn to appreciate the things I already have, maybe I need to recognize how blessed we are, maybe I just need to acknowledge that with out Devine help, I wouldn't even have a fancy shmancy camera, or a car, an apartment, a job, opportunities, friends and family, the church, a fantastic hubby (who is going to school) and an awsome, cute, sometimes overbearingly annoying, red head son, A SON. I am truly so grateful for all my blessings.
To be perfectly honest with myself, in the long long long run, my camera won't matter. *sniff sniff*

OK now that I have learned those lessons, can I have my camera back? {Just kidding}