January 23: Lost and Found

So Erin and I have a problem with losing things in the car.

This problem started Labor Day weekend, when our roommate's car literally ate Erin's phone.  Apparently, BMW convertibles have air conditioning ducts the exact dimensions of the iPhone 4. Who knew?  After a long stressful night of repeatedly calling the phone (my first time hearing Ben Rector's song "Moving Backwards" on Erin's ringtone quickly turned into the 27th time listening to the chorus), tearing apart the car, and calling boys and eventually our roommate's dad (because really this was a problem only a dad could fix), the phone was finally back in Erin's hands.

That story leads up to a similarly stressful situation today...this morning, running out the door to church, I grabbed my Nana's David Yurman earrings and necklace that my Poppop gave to me for my 16th birthday.  I put on the earrings while driving, but when I got to church I realized I had never put on the necklace.  Assuming I had put it in the cup holder (because somehow I do lots of things without realizing at all what I'm doing), I figured I would find it later.  After church and lunch and walking around downtown Auburn, Erin and started tearing apart my car looking for this necklace.  We figured it had to be in the car, but after looking absolutely everywhere, we set off on a last resort trip all the way back to Opelika to scour the parking lot.  Skeptical me thought there was no way the necklace could have survived in the parking lot from 9:45 to 2:45 and that it was probably in the tiny air conditioning ducts we found under my driver's seat, but lo and behold when we pulled up there was something sparkly lying on the ground.  I slammed on breaks and practically jumped out of the car before it had stopped moving, and there it was!  Needless to say Erin and I both ran around the parking lot jumping up and down (and of course stopping to pose for a picture for the blog - see the little thing on the ground right below her knees?) for a good five minutes.  

I completely consider this God's little miracle for me for today!  I hope He smiled when we were dancing and screaming in the parking lot in the middle of downtown Opelika.