Day 191 - firefly finale and my camera

This was the last day of a great week. I quickly snapped this photo during the finale because I knew at any second Courtney would want me to hold her. Her feet barely touched the ground during the group time in the sanctuary all week. By the last day she and Claire really knew the songs and motions and wanted to do it with Calista and Caroline too.

The best part of this day, however, was the fact that I had my camera back. Yesterday while struggling to get the girls into the car I set my camera down on the ground. I even told myself that it would be awful to leave it there.

That's exactly what I did. I left it in its case, on the hot parking lot asphalt, and drove away. How did I not run over it?

When we pulled into the driveway at home I realized what I had done. I gasped, frightened the girls and then sped back to church. I told them in a panic what I had done and immediately had all 4 crying. In between sobs I could hear, "you can't take pictures at my party now" and "oh no, mommy, you can't blog anymore" and the best was "we'll NEVER scrapbook again!" Courtney and Claire just bawled and kept repeating "poor mommy!"

We pulled into the parking lot and it was gone (louder crying). While I ran into the office a friend prayed with the girls and helped them calm down. That was about the time that I felt the tears coming and knew I needed to leave. I thanked her and everyone else through tears (so embarrassed now) and drove home crying with my crying girls. Our prayers were answered a few hours later when a friend called and said she had found it in the parking lot and knew it was mine.

So even though I'm embarrassed that I cried about a camera (did I mention that I was also really exhausted?) I am so thankful that I have my camera back today.