And so life continues…

I want to start this by saying thank you to everyone who has emailed/called/texted with encouragement. I have such amazing clients and friends, thank you all for making us feel loved. The past month has been a blur. After our first break-in we were a little shook up, but all in all we realized how much we had to be thankful for and we moved on. We actually went ahead and moved my office into my parents house because we will be moving into my parent’s house for a short “interim” time before our big move. Well, Monday morning as I was coming to work at my parents and my mom was leaving to go to work, their house was broken into. I have so much to share, but it’s seems like for once in a really long time, I don’t know how to express myself. It feels like there are too many circuits going every which way. I was jogging with my dogs the afternoon of the break-in trying to figure out how I would muster the strength to keep trying. I mean, it’s pretty hard to have both your home AND work tampered with twice. It’s stressful being in charge of everyone’s “best day ever”, I mean what if I hadn’t had all of my RAW files backed up. Good grief that would be horrible! I am dealing with the fact that I have to re-edit a ton of images that I lost, however, I can see positives to this. For instance, I now carry around a backup external drive of every wedding and session that is in process on my person (I like using that phrase) as well as have my entire computer mirrored and hidden somewhere else. (The ironic thing of course is that I had just ordered my BlacX Thermaltake drive for this very purpose, to back up triply, but it had been delayed in the mail and didn’t come until Monday afternoon…) So, surely this cannot happen a third time, right? Well, as I was jogging I was thinking, so what if it does? Yes, it will be terrible again, BUT the one thing that can never be stolen from me is this: God, the creator of all things and maker of the universe, loves me. He loves me and that can never be stolen. I might not be able to take solace in the security of my home, or work, but I can take security in the love of God. And that’s pretty cool.