My sister helped me change the files to black and white so they were easier for other people to look at. Then, I took them to my husband so he could print them off. I was having him print off pictures for several locations at once: for a collage frame upstairs, for some new frames that I was going to buy for downstairs, and for the container that I had bought to hold the babies' ashes.
With that done, I headed to Kohl's with my $10 off a $10 purchase card in hand. I thought I knew exactly what I wanted, but when I got to the store, I found something even better. Unfortunately, they only had two frames in that color, and I needed three. I did find another frame of the same style, but in a different color, that I could use. I bought these three but decided to go to another Kohl's to see if I could find another frame in the blue color that I wanted. I went to the other Kohl's and was in luck. One short wait in the return line, and the three blue frames were mine. I took my purchase home already envisioning them on the wall.
By the time I got home, Jason was home with the pictures, and I got to work putting them up. I didn't get far. As I opened the frame package, I discovered that the frames didn't have any hangers. They were only meant for desktop display. Of course, normally this would not be a big deal. You just get new frames. Instead, I was very upset. How dare these frames not work. They were perfect, and I already had them up on the wall in my mind's eye. Didn't the people who made the frames know that they were for my boys, and they needed to have hangers? Did I mention that I was upset? It only got worse when I moved on to the ashes container, only to discover that the pictures Jason printed were the wrong size. He thought the holes were for 3.5 x 5, but instead they were for wallets.
With nothing else to do at home (well besides fix my husband and son dinner), I grabbed the Kohl's bag and headed back for new frames. I found some that would work (they even had hangers), but this Kohl's only had two of them. So after another wait in the return line at Kohl's, I walked out of the door with two frames and headed to the other Kohl's. They didn't have another one in that color, but I did find another one in a different color so I bought it.
I returned home and put all the pictures up (except for the ones in the ashes container).
When I thought about my day though, I saw the blessings the Lord had given me. He gave me a sister who devoted her morning to helping me convert the files. He also gave me a husband who tried to think of a way to hang the first frames, who offered to go with me immediately to the store to find new ones, and who fixed dinner for himself and our son after I stormed out. A best friend who answered my phone call on the way to the second Kohl's for the second time and who offered immediate sympathy for my plight. And finally, for giving me two different Kohl's return ladies so I didn't have to explain why I had stood in the line twice in about an hour.
Here is what I ended up with.
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