I've Been Robbed!

Monday, October 27, 2008

I've Been Robbed!

I am a person who doesn't have much jewelry simply because I loose it faster than I buy it. I'd like to have some, but I've never had enough to make it worth having a good place to keep it. Recently Andy decided to buy me a jewelry box. Along with the box he got me a necklace or two and some earings. These are all the Wal-Mart specials - nothing expensive by any stretch of the imagination - just a start at making my jewelry box not a black whole of nothingness. Then, last weekend, my mother-in-law gave me a lot of jewelry that used to belong to her mother. This filled my box the brim! I have rings and earrings and necklaces like I never have had before. It has been fun to accesorize each day with something new. Yesterday, in preparing for church, Ammon was involved in helping me pick what pieces of jewelry I should wear. "Is this one stylish?" he would ask. It was fun for him to take such a cute little interest in what I was wearing. We finished getting ready, went to church, and thought nothing else of the jewelry box until last night when I was getting ready for bed. I took off my earings and went to put them in the jewelry box. It was empty!

Andy and I stared at the empty box in shock. Of course we immediataly knew that Ammon was the culprit. But where did he take everything? There was no trail -no pieces anywhere that we could see. It had all literally vanished! The boys were already sleeping so Andy and I started to look everywhere we could imagine a 4 year old boy might stow a treasure. We finally gave up and decided we would talk to Ammon in the morning. As we knelt by our bed to say our prayers, Andy suddenly caught a glimpse of something. There, under our bed, were all the items that belonged in the jewelry box. It made us laugh! How blessed we are to be parents, enjoying the crazy and zany things our children do.

2 comments:

KristaOctober 27, 2008 at 1:07 PM
Haha! That is funny.
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TiffanyOctober 27, 2008 at 1:19 PM
Don't scare me like that, for a second I thought you were really going to tell me you'd been robbed. Thats my worst nightmare. I'm glad Ammon was the culprit.
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