Finders Keepers

I'm very happy to report an update on my last post. I guess I had some good karma coming my way or something, because within 24 hours of posting about all these things gone missing, I had found three of them. Taylor's black shoes were left behind at Aunt Jana's house from the Sunday before, the lost remote I found under my bed, and one of the calculators was hiding in the couch of all places. It was almost laughable - I was so frustrated for days trying to find this stuff and all of them turn up within a few short hours. I was on a roll!! The only thing left to find was that dreaded knob for the door on the entertainment center.

The highlight of all of this though had to be something I found that I wasn't even looking for. Later on that evening while the older two kids were at piano lessons, I made a quick trip to the library to return some stuff. Since my kiddos like to check out like 25 or 30 things at a time, I threw all the books and videos in a bag to make it easier to carry them. The little boys and I returned everything and I let them check out a few more things. I opened up my bag to put in our newly checked out items when lo and behold there sitting in the bottom of the bag was Zach's iPod! I couldn't believe it -- let me tell you the story behind it:

Zach's iPod has been missing since our Disneyland trip in April. Somewhere between the hotel room, our luggage and Andrew's truck, his iPod came up missing. We searched and searched for it with no success and finally gave up hope of finding it. I searched through every bag several times and even called the hotel to see if they found it. Zach was so upset that it was gone and we resigned ourselves to the fact that it was gone for good.

On a day of unbelievable finds, I was shocked that his iPod just turned up at the bottom of a bag that I have used several times since that Disneyland trip and never came across it. Isn't that the craziest thing? When I picked up the kids from piano and surprised Zachary with his long lost iPod, he went nuts. He couldn't stop saying thank you.

Oh, and that knob?? It finally turned up too. I found it this past Sunday night under a chair in the front room. So I am happy that I successfully found everything I was looking for and didn't have to buy any replacements.

Does this mean I can pay myself the finder's fee?