Do you remember this picture, the picture of my children singing with dad in his truck? It was after bedtime. We had just gotten home from church. Grace rode home with dad and was singing Grease songs (I can’t believe I am admitting that). Unfortunately we were so distracted with the singing and playing that when we went in we forgot to lock the vehicles and bring everything inside. Something we normally do. We live in a quiet neighborhood. We have lived here 3 years and never had any problems.
The next morning my husband woke me up at am and informed me that his truck had been broken into. I walked outside and realized my suburban had been broken into. As my husband called the police I realized that my neighbor’s trunks were popped open and something was laying in another neighbor’s yard.
It took several minutes for me to realize that my purse was gone. Which means my date book was gone. My military ID was gone. If you know anything about the military you know they will not allow you to go to the doctor without them.
The police came and we realized quickly that we were not the only ones who had been robbed. When we left the house at 8am to go on post to get new ID’s there were six sheriff’s cars on my street.
God is so good because they let me on post with a expired passport and let me get new ID’s using only my expired passport. We got our new ID’s. I called the state my driver’s license is from and they worked it out to send me a temporary driver’s license. These were the two biggest stressors. Well besides not having my date book.
That afternoon we were at my husband’s work picnic when we got the craziest phone call. The deputy called to say they found my purse. It was under my neighbor’s tree. The crazy thing was that they had not taken anything. We think they may have spooked when my husband came out that morning. My ID’s, my license, my date book and even my spare pair of maternity underwear that I carry in case I have to go to the hospital. Doesn’t everyone carry maternity underwear in there purse. Not so excited about it when I saw them laying there for everyone to see. I did have to fight the urge to jump up and down when I saw my date book.
An hour late CSI came to my house to finger print everything. Talk about a mess. I have black powder everywhere. Not just everywhere but on everything. Not just on everything but inside of everything.
In all 12 houses in my quiet small subdivision, I do not know how many cars total but most people had more than one car. They even hit a car parked right next to a deputy’s squad car. Now that is a person with some guts.
God is so good because they let me on post with a expired passport and let me get new ID’s using only my expired passport. We got our new ID’s. I called the state my driver’s license is from and they worked it out to send me a temporary driver’s license. These were the two biggest stressors. Well besides not having my date book.
That afternoon we were at my husband’s work picnic when we got the craziest phone call. The deputy called to say they found my purse. It was under my neighbor’s tree. The crazy thing was that they had not taken anything. We think they may have spooked when my husband came out that morning. My ID’s, my license, my date book and even my spare pair of maternity underwear that I carry in case I have to go to the hospital. Doesn’t everyone carry maternity underwear in there purse. Not so excited about it when I saw them laying there for everyone to see. I did have to fight the urge to jump up and down when I saw my date book.
An hour late CSI came to my house to finger print everything. Talk about a mess. I have black powder everywhere. Not just everywhere but on everything. Not just on everything but inside of everything.
In all 12 houses in my quiet small subdivision, I do not know how many cars total but most people had more than one car. They even hit a car parked right next to a deputy’s squad car. Now that is a person with some guts.
So how do I praise in this time. I praise that while they did get a lap top and two IPODS from our vehicles they did not get my driver’s license. That while they took my husband’s allergy medicine they left the medicine that he takes daily. I am praising because we have insurance, praising that no one was hurt. So for today I choose to pray for the person/people who made my safe neighborhood not feel safe.
Have you ever been robbed? How did you help your child feel safe afterwards? How did you help yourself feel safe afterwards?
Pamela
God is so good because they let me on post with a expired passport and let me get new ID’s using only my expired passport. We got our new ID’s. I called the state my driver’s license is from and they worked it out to send me a temporary driver’s license. These were the two biggest stressors. Well besides not having my date book.
That afternoon we were at my husband’s work picnic when we got the craziest phone call. The deputy called to say they found my purse. It was under my neighbor’s tree. The crazy thing was that they had not taken anything. We think they may have spooked when my husband came out that morning. My ID’s, my license, my date book and even my spare pair of maternity underwear that I carry in case I have to go to the hospital. Doesn’t everyone carry maternity underwear in there purse. Not so excited about it when I saw them laying there for everyone to see. I did have to fight the urge to jump up and down when I saw my date book.
An hour late CSI came to my house to finger print everything. Talk about a mess. I have black powder everywhere. Not just everywhere but on everything. Not just on everything but inside of everything.
In all 12 houses in my quiet small subdivision, I do not know how many cars total but most people had more than one car. They even hit a car parked right next to a deputy’s squad car. Now that is a person with some guts.
So how do I praise in this time. I praise that while they did get a lap top and two IPODS from our vehicles they did not get my driver’s license. That while they took my husband’s allergy medicine they left the medicine that he takes daily. I am praising because we have insurance, praising that no one was hurt. So for today I choose to pray for the person/people who made my safe neighborhood not feel safe.
Have you ever been robbed? How did you help your child feel safe afterwards? How did you help yourself feel safe afterwards?
Pamela
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Our house got robbed when we were married about a year. We had no insurance. They took several radios, or stereo, our TV, jewelry, silver coins, and Paul's wedding ring (which he couldn't wear to work at that time). We did get the wedding ring back, but everything else was gone. It was a horrible feeling knowing someone was in your house looking through our stuff. It took quite a while before I felt safe again. At the time, we were renting and our landlord put in an alarm system. Our shed was robbed once too, but the house was worse.
Wow! We have never been robbed but our neighbors on post at Bragg were. It was terrifying because I was out of town when it happened.
Our house was robbed. Grace was about 3, so she doesn't even remember it. I lost her baby pictures, baby videos and my grandma's wedding ring (I had debated on whether to wear it or not and chose not to....I still regret that). It took awhile to feel safe. We got an alarm system, but still just knowing someone went through your stuff was difficult to deal with. thankfully, they really didn't tear anything up except the door and door frame. The weird thing about ours was that they stole food (tv dinners, frozen casseroles) from the deep freeze !
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