Too Soon?

We went to Pretend City in Irvine yesterday. It is the coolest place where they have kid sized everything ~ a grocery store complete with cash registers, food to buy in shopping baskets, a firehouse, a construction site, a bank, a pizza parlor, a post office, a beach, and on and on. They also had a doctor's office complete with xrays, exam table, etc. Jack couldn't wait to try on the boot and crutches "just like mom had". This brings up the question, when does something awful that happens in your life finally become something you can laugh about in memory? This is my favorite picture of the day, but did Amber see it and still cringe at its memory? It was probably one of the longest two months of her life and it was less than a year ago.
We have all been knee deep in an unpleasant situation and said, "We'll probably laugh about this years from now." Truth is, much of our worst, trying times DO become a distant memory that we can laugh about, or, at the very least, smile at later. It is difficult to remember this fact when we are facing the tough situation at the moment. What was once a mountain eventually becomes a mole hill. The trick is to keep putting one foot in front of the other, every day.