Scattered thoughts
February 4, 2009 > No Comments
We’ve been out of town for the last 2 days attending a funeral of a dear family friend. My husband and I both have known him & his family for about 20 yrs. He was diagnosed with cancer 6 years ago and the Drs had given him only about 2 years to live. He was convinced that he was going to go out in the rapture, so he was not surprised that he lived beyond that 2 years. Sadly however, he did not make it. But what a wonderful time he is having right now. He knows all the answers to our questions and he’ll be right there when that trumpet sounds and we who remain will join him in the clouds.
What an encouragement he was to many. Bro. Freddy you’ll be missed.
While we were in GA we also stopped and put flowers on my Daddy’s grave. I wish I had taken a picture, but I forgot and we were in a hurry. I arranged pretty daisies, along with purple and yellow flowers. Certainly a stark contrast to the gloomy rainy day.
It was somewhat of a sad trip burying a friend and visiting graves but on the brighter side we also had a good time visiting with friends. Praise the Lord for friends AMEN? We ate and then ate some more. We vowed not to eat again for months, but I have to say that was one vow I broke. I ate today.
The morning before the funeral while I was showering I was thinking about the viewing and the slide show of pictures the family had arranged for Bro. Freddy. Pictures from years ago when his children were babies up to this last Christmas. As I was thinking my thoughts turned to “what ifs”…What if I died? What pictures would Bobby pick to go in my slide show? What if Bobby died what pictures would I pick? Morbid perhaps, but real.
I was continuing in my thoughts when my mind settled on a particular picture…
“Now where is that picture?”
I thought and thought and then it dawned on me…I took that picture with my digital camera.
“It’s not on the camera anymore, I must have downloaded them into the computer.”
Then I wondered, “Would anybody know to look on the computer for pictures of me?”
Then it hit me like a ton of bricks…We just had a friend wipe our computer so it would run faster. He had asked what needed to be saved and I confidently answered “E mails & documents.” Being new to the “digital camera world” it never dawned on me to save those pictures.
Talk about being sick… I am miserable every time I think about it. Those pictures were of Susannah’s first year. I basically lost every baby picture I had of little Susannah. 300+ pictures.
So I am asking anyone that I’ve sent baby pictures to in the year 2008 to please e mail them to me. Thank you! I’m going to go cry now.
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February 5th, 2009 @ 2:31 am
Oh Amanda, that is so sad about the pictures. I have had that same situation with the digital camera. I don’t know if digital cameras are such and advancement afterall. I had way better (and up to date) albums when I used actual film! I don’t think I have printed more than a dozen pictures of my 6 month old…and if my computer crashed…goodbye memories. I’m so sorry you lost your pics…
February 7th, 2009 @ 3:37 pm
Oh no!! I had something similar happen to me! I was going to save all our pictures from 2005 to cds so I could free up space on the computer. However, there was some problem, only a couple pictures were saved and all the rest deleted. I was depressed!! Joshua’s baby pics! Have you ordered any pics online? If so, they should still be in the online albums. And I’ll check my emails.
I did end up finding some of my deleted pictures in a hidden folder somewhere on the computer. It was a small relief.