Lost, and found

Things lost at our house lately:

Kip's keys
Duration: 2 weeks
Found: in the battery pocket of the camera case.  Glad that we did not have to fork over $100 for an extra car key.  Spent many hours searching - thought McKinley had walked off and stashed them someplace secret.

Caleb's retainer
Duration: 1 week
Found: in his suit coat pocket.  We assumed it ran away with the keys; he must have pulled it out eating a treat on the way home from church.  Still fits.  Glad that we did not have to fork over $225 for a new one.

Rachel's ballet shoe
Duration: less than one week, but gone on ballet class day
Found: Behind the basket holding all the scriptures for family reading.  Had to wear mis-matched slippers - we have other ones given to us by friends - but still made it to class.  Would not have forked over $25 for new slippers, she could live with mis-matched ones, but still glad we found the lost slipper.  Guilty party: McKinley the hoarder.  (She loves to collect things from everyone, put them into purses, backpacks, or bags, and then leave the items somewhere random.)

4 out of 6 name tokens from our Family Night board
Duration: over 1 week
Found: on the ground in the crack between couch pieces.  No cost - homemade pieces, but went two Mondays not knowing who had which job for family night, so everyone wanted to be only game or treat.  Guilty party: McKinley the hoarder.  Note to self: move board where McKinley can't reach the pieces.

McKinley's blankie
Duration: a couple of hours...right at bedtime
Found: stuffed in the shoebox that serves as a barbie refrigerator. No cost - but some emotional suffering.  Guilty party: McKinley the hoarder.  Amazingly she went to sleep without it, but not without a few tears.  Reunited the next morning. Whew!

I know that God must roll His eyes every time I start with "I know this is not very important in the grand scheme of things, but if you could give me some idea of where to find  (fill in the blank)..."  :)  Well, actually I don't imagine that He ever rolls His eyes, but we are very thankful every time we find the things we have lost. :)