WoooHooo!

Once upon a time, I went to a party. I had fun at that party. Lots of fun. Too much fun, in fact, such that I was rather sick in the night. The next day was Halloween, and even though I still felt rather sick, as the mother of two small children, I had to suck it up and take them trick or treating. So I did. And they had fun. And I sucked it up. There was no one to blame for my stupidity of the previous evening aside from myself, and I certainly wasn't going to let it interfere with my parental duties.

After we finished trick or treating, and the kiddos had nice full buckets of candy, I set my very expensive, very loved camera on the small sliver of seat between Rissa's car seat and the door as I buckled her in. I forgot about it completely, shut the door, and went home. Upon opening the door to let Rissa out, my camera fell onto the concrete floor of our garage. And it broke, but not visibly. It just didn't work anymore.

After much self-kicking for my wide array of stupid decisions in such a short period of time, I sat down and figured out how to send my camera into the company with whom I had purchased an extended warranty at the time I bought my camera. There were a few issues that made me not feel particularly hopeful that my camera would be repaired under the warranty, particularly the part where the warranty didn't cover damage from dropping the camera on concrete. Still, it was only going to cost the price of shipping the camera to their facilities, so I thought I at least ought to try. I didn't have another $1500 to shell out to get myself a new camera.

I shipped the camera in, and after several long months, including all the holidays and the various important moments associated with them, I received a package containing my completely repaired camera (for only about $20 in shipping both ways)! HOORAY!

So today, I am super duper grateful that Landon's cousin encouraged me to buy an extended warranty when I bought my camera. I am super duper grateful that I followed his advice. Finally, I am super duper grateful that my camera is all fixed and working so I can start taking photos of my beautiful kids again! WoooHooo!