Come Out, Come Out, wherever you are...Is this REALLY happening aGaiN?!?!

Let's start at the very beginning...a few months before Mike & I were married I lost my engagement/wedding ring- NEVER found it! It was the middle of winter, snow everywhere and it was cold so I wore my gloves as I drove to work. When I got to work & took off my gloves it was GONE! When I called Mike to tell him, I was SO WORRIED about how he'd react. (I shouldn't have been-) Later that evening Mike brought down to me a card and in it was one of those .25 cent rings from the gumball machine with a note that said "Here's a replacement until we get a new one." (ahhhhhh swEEEEt!!!)

Fast forward until after we've been married for many years & 3 kids later- I had taken my ring off to wash my hands & put lotion on before one of Tanner's football games. I thought I had put it in my pocket until my hands dried. When I went to put it on a few minutes later at the game, it was GONE! When I got home, I LOOKED where I thought maybe I could've left it (but knowing I had put it in my pocket). NOTHING!

Fast forward again until yesterday morning. I was rolling up a piece of paper when I accidentally knocked it off the counter. It clanked on the floor once then twice, but the second time it sounded a little different than the first clank. I finished rolling up the paper, then looked down & it was NOWHERE to be found! I searched, searched and searched some more- still NOWHERE!!! But I had to go Visiting Teaching, so I figured when I get home I'd look some more. Because it can't GO ANYWHERE, right! So, when I got home I looked again- high, low, in the cabinets, in the garbage (because, could it have slid down the cabinet into the garbage? NO! but I couldn't find it- so your mind goes wild.) I looked on, under & around the rugs, behind the vents, EVERYWHERE!!! After calling Mike, I went back to cleaning the cabinet, when I accidentally dropped a paperclip and it fell down and into my cuff of my pant leg. AHHHHH!!! Was it a sign? So, hoping for a miracle I unfolded my cuff...NOTHING! but I had been so many places- I call Mike to tell him that maybe that's WHY it made a different sound on the second bounce.

I began calling everyone that I had visited & the sister that I drove with to our appointments. NOTHING! So, I got in my car and drove over to the sisters homes-looked AWFULLY WEIRD, but walked up & down their driveways, and the street where we parked... still NOTHING!!!

So SAD that I can't find it, but SO GRATEFUL for the paperclip that made me think of something else & made me start looking outside my home, because a RING doesn't get up & walk away from where you dropped it, Or DOES IT?!?!