We are Batting One Thousand

Thursday morning Mike and I carried out our daily morning ritual by checking our email inbox to see if we had any news from the travel department at MAF, and we finally read the words we have been waiting for since we turned in our paperwork last June.  All four of our visas are here!  We were thrilled to get such good news. 

Then our day took a turn for the worse.  

Ever have one of those days where you feel you just need to go to bed so that you can put an end to it so bad things stop happening?  It started out with small problems.  Colton started to feel crummy and ended up with a fever by the end of the day.  On the way to our celebratory dinner at Chick-fil-A his flip-flop blew out (minor  I know, but still unfortunate).  On the way home the clutch went out on our car.  To top it off when Mike turned on our iMac to research how to fix the clutch he got the "beach ball of death".  Our hard drive crashed.  Apples are not supposed to die!  This is the point of the day where I wanted to throw in the towel and just go to bed. 

It is sometimes easy to focus on the negative and feel let down after a day like we had, but if you examine it closer you can see the hand of God at work in the midst of it.  I didn't mention it earlier, but our car broke down 1/2 a block away from home.  Isn't that a miracle?  I thought of all the places I had driven the car earlier in the day, and counted the amount of times I shifted gears.  The fact that the clutch broke so close to home is a miracle.  

Mike was able to tow the car with a tow dolly and truck MAF owns to a hanger full of tools and aircraft mechanics.  What a perfect place to fix a car.  Now we can sell the car with a nice new clutch in it.  The clutch was starting to take a bit of "finesse" to down shift, not the best selling point.

Is it a bummer our computer hard drive crashed?  Yes it is, but we had it properly backed up and there is an Apple store in the Boise Mall.  We took it in to the Apple "geeks" (or are they called "geniuses") and they are installing a new hard drive for us, no big deal after all.  Imagine if the computer crashed one month from now in Indonesia?!  What a headache that would have been.  

As for Colton he woke up the next day feeling better, nothing a day of laying on the couch watching cartoons couldn't fix.  He is also rocking a brand new pair of red flip-flops, his favorite color (his old flip-flops were blue).