A Few Random Things

The other day Emily cried and cried because she wanted to take my flip flop off of my foot. When I finally figured out what she wanted, I took it off and gave it to her. Then she cried and cried because she couldn't get it to stay on. Here she finally accomplished her feat (pun intended).



Megan cracks me up. Now that she can walk, she enjoys just carrying things around. Her current favorite is the "bottoms" to some canvas boxes we have that hold their toys. She folds them up and just walks around with them.



I just had to add this random thing because it really isn't all that random at all. It seems like I'm always misplacing things. I always say a little prayer for help in finding whatever it is, and without fail, I find it.

Well, for the past 4-5 days our mail key has been "misplaced." The girls love to carry it around so I figured I'd eventually find it as I cleaned up around the house. Well, I cleaned and looked and just couldn't find it anywhere. This morning I made a call to the post office to see what we need to do to get a replacement. The lady said we'd have to go down to the post office with proof that it was our mailbox and pay $40 to have someone come out and make a new key. (Oh lovely!)

I decided we'd try one more thing. I loaded the girls up in the wagon and Tyler grabbed his backpack and we retraced our steps. We sometimes return home from getting the mail by going the "long way" so we can drag our little walk out as long as possible. As we went searching for the key I said a little prayer to help us find the key, if there was any way possible.

We were almost done with our search when I saw it--our mail key--right there in the grass next to another mailbox. I don't know if someone had found our key along the way (the girls like to drop things over the side of the wagon) and decided it looked like a mail key and so they threw it in the grass by a random mailbox or if that is where our key fell 5 days ago and stayed. The key fob is a little weathered, but I don't mind one bit. It will be a constant reminder that prayers really are answered over and over again. (And, yeah, we'll be making a copy of the key soon.)