Happy Endings

After passing her martial arts test Tuesday evening Zoey spent the night with us. It was pretty impressive as it included breaking a board.  She went to bed as soon as we got home and slept peacefully until almost 10:00a.m..  At 11:40 a.m. Zoey & Joe  drove to Kentridge to pick up our friend Kenny at basketball camp.
Kenny joined us for lunch then he & Zoey decided to go to the pond across the street to catch pollywogs.
They were careful to allow plenty of water and air while they observed them, then put them back in the pond.
They also shared their musical talent. Kenny played piano while Zoey sang. It was a fun day.
At 4:30 we managed to get Zoe out of the house with her overnight bag packed, to take her to Seattle Memorial Stadium for All City Band practice. I packed her a lunch which she deemed unnecessary.  I brought it anyway.
Traffic of course was horrendous but we made it.
We walked her to the stadium to make sure there was a practice and some one in charge was present.
Zoey insisted that hiding her bag in the bushes was safe. She had done it before and it was just fine.
This so went against my good judgement, but we were tired and let it go.
While we were sitting in the car getting ready to leave we saw Zoey go to the bushes to retrieve the lunch. We had a laugh and left.

Around 9:00 p.m. John (Zoey's Dad) phoned asking me if I knew what was in the bag and was it worth looking for? I knew her School Year book was in there.  I got a sick feeling in my stomach that her bag was gone and felt I was to blame for not offering a different solution. I decided instead of feeling horrible I would pray to St. Anthony. I sent an e-mail to Liz apologizing for the loss and told her of my plans to pray to St.Anthony. Maybe some good soul would return it.

Liz called and asked why I thought Zoey's bag was missing? I said that is what I was told. We then figured that John had looked in the bushes and found it.When they got home Liz asked about the bag and was told it was in the car.

This morning Liz got a phone call from the school district. A security guard had found the bag, looked through it and found her  name. He or she contacted the school district and found her address and phone number.

John and Zoey decided that since Liz had the lumpectomy earlier that day they shouldn't upset her!