Miraculous Recovery!
You may recall my dismay with the loss of valuable photos from my son's 1st two years.
I had all of the photos saved on the laptop I was issued at my previous company. When I left the company and turned in my laptop in 2005, my son was already a year and a half old, and all of the pictures of him from birth to that current time were stored on the laptop. I had the network engineer download the pictures to CDs for me. Read the rest here.
I had given up on ever finding those pictures again. A very heartbroken feeling loomed over me and increased with every passing day as the realization that I would never see those pictures again set in. So check this out:
I bought a few items on eBay over the past week. My eBay account is still attached to my old Yahoo account that I don't check anymore. Over the past few days, I have been checking the Yahoo account to get the tracking numbers from the eBay sellers so that I can find out when my packages would be delivered. Most of my packages have already arrived, so this evening I went back through my Yahoo mail account one more time just to see what was still in there. I found some very old emails from November 2004 (right after one of my best friends passed away). I found a few emails from my aunt who has Lou Gehrig's disease now, and has lost the ability to communicate with us. I found emails from my friend Allison from before her husband was in a near-death motorcycle accident years ago. Lots of old memories.
Then the thought hit me...maybe over time, I sent lots of pictures of my son out to family and/or friends from that Yahoo account. I did a search for my son's name, but nothing was coming up that was helpful. My hope began fading into sadness again. Just as I was about to shut down the account, a particular email stuck out to me. The subject had my son's name and said "3 months old". My heart skipped a beat. It even had an attachment. I opened the email, and it was an email from a couple that we are good friends with at our church. They were inviting us to a C-Group meeting. Bummer. I was about to close down the browser all together and just spend the rest of the evening reading a good book. Something made me scroll down to the bottom of that email.
Once I got to the bottom I noticed that I had actually sent this couple an email that contained a link of some sort. I clicked on the link and it sent me to...wait for it...Yahoo Photos where there a BUNCH of photos from Olan's birth through 6 months of age!! The exact pics that I thought were lost!! Praise God!! I am so thankful, and I know that this was only made possible by the Grace of God. I had almost started to believe that I'd ever see these pictures again! NEVER say NEVER! Amen!