Did you ever lose something and just go bonkers trying to find out what you did with it??? I usually am pretty good about keeping track of my belongings but there are days. Yes….there are days.
My sweet husband has graced me with some lovely jewelry over the years. One anniversary fairly early on in our marriage he got me an opal necklace, earrings and bracelet. I loved that set. They were pretty and delicate and unusual and I loved wearing it. I usually wore it for more dressy up occasions like church or whatnot. One Sunday I went to put the set on and realized that the bracelet was missing. 
Now how did that happen??? I ALWAYS took the necklace, earrings and bracelet off together at the same time and put them in the same place TOGETHER! What gremlins were working in my jewelry box to hide it from me? I turned the bedroom upside down. I looked high and low. I looked near and far. I looked inside things(Feeling kind of like a Dr. Seuss book here). It was nowhere to be found. Insert very sad face here.
Some time passed—probably a month or so. I had given up hope ever being reunited with my lovely bracelet again. I figured it must have fallen off, fallen in a trash can, or a zombie had come and taken it away while I was sleeping. I had said goodbye to it.
Our youngest son, Aaron, had a knack for finding things sometimes and even though he was not actively looking for anything he would find lost items . It was a gift. One day he was getting ice out of the automatic through the door nifty ice dispenser to put in his drink. Yep–you guessed it. My bracelet came out in the ice!!! Somehow I must have reached into the freezer part to get something out and it had fallen into the ice reservoir thingy and stayed there. It was a little worse for the wear with a broken catch but we were reunited and I was happy ! Who would have thought it!!!
Have you ever lost something and had given up hope ever finding it????
17 Comments
Leave a commentI am so happy that your opal bracelet showed up again. I am very partial to opals, since I have some family jewelry—-it was my mom’s birthstone, and my grandmother’s engagement ring.
Ann–I can imagine that your family jewelry is beautiful and what a piece of history to have!!! Wonderful!
Yes, in answer to your question…MY MIND!!
Tell me when you find it!!! 🙂
I greatly admire your ability to write/blog with such discipline. It’s a goal I have not yet attained…*sigh*…I ponder and journal, but never get it onto my blog…suggestions??
Oh my goodness—I don’t know the answer to that. Right now I have an abundance of time. That was not always the case as I suspect is the case in your life! I take a great deal of comfort in writing and even if I never move beyond this blog it has somehow become therapeutic for me. I think you just do what you can do at the time, you know??? I am definitely not an expert, that is for sure, but do love meeting new bloggy friends and that is why I do it, I guess!
What a nice surprise!! I’m glad you found your bracelet! 🙂
It was a very nice surprise!
That was lucky! I have always been the finder for my family. I have a lot of practice with my own stuff.
Many moons ago Joe and I sold a toy called PlayStands….He made them in our garage and as you can imagine the holidays were very busy. One Christmas he lost his wedding ring…he always took it off when he was building so we could not imagine what happened to it. Truthfully we were to busy to care much. Awful but true. About 3 months later I received a package in the mail from a women who was just getting ready to recycle a play stand box and packaging—yep the ring was tucked inside. It fell off during packaging. She had sent me an e-mail but it landed in spam and I never saw it. Nice people are everywhere.
So happy your bracelet appeared…and what a great story. Of-course you know the best finder of them all….Saint Anthony!
Well what a wonderful story!!! I do believe in the goodness of humankind!!! I really do! I think we focus so much on the negative that it is so refreshing to hear happy stories of people doing the right thing!!! Thanks for making me smile!!!
One that comes to mind (in fact several come to mind) was when I went to a friends house to get some fresh ears of corn. I had taken my small purse out to pay them and put it on the car while we visited. When I got home, no purse. I drove back to their place and drove slowly home, saw it lying by the road. One purse found!
It’s sad, but I have no excuse for being bonkers, Beth Ann. I was just looking for a place to go, and ended up there. We did have a time looking for my husband’s watch one day, and finally decided to check the trash can. Yes, our toddler had put it in there; and we surmised that is where a few other things went that had disappeared during that time…the bowl that went with her cup and plate, e.g. Now, I lose everything all by myself. I was cutting up a plum for hubby for dinner, and thought I’d lost 1/4 of it. Must have peeled it as a half, because I couldn’t find it, even accused him of eating it! lol Last night, I was looking all over for his cholesterol med that I KNEW I had taken out…it was hidden…in plain sight. Is there any hope for me?
Oh yes there is hope for you!!! At least you “know” that you are losing it! Haha!!! I think the plain sight stuff is the most annoying because when you find it you feel like such a dork! I feel like a dork a lot of times !!! 🙂
No wonder you couldn’t find it! i liked your “Dr. Seuss” style!
Thanks, Karen!!!!
Oh my goodness. Glad you found it.
It was quite a surprise!!! But a happy one!!!