The gifts that keep on giving

I received an email from the girls school stating that they needed to bring a shoebox to make a Valentines box in class. So I began my hunt for a shoebox (or two in our case). First stop was the children's fathers closest. I recalled seeing some in there and was doubtful that he had been hit with a cleaning bug and thrown them out. As luck would have it, I was right. I quickly discovered two shoeboxes that will be perfect for his little Valentines to make their own Valentines boxes (what a good Daddy).

 

I opened the boxes to make sure they were empty and to my surprise discovered they were not. This is what I found in one of the boxes.

 

 

These are the gift cards that I had given their daddy over a year ago for Christmas along with the new shoes he received.

 

There are three interesting things about this discovery.

 

1 - It just goes to show you how often he cleans out his closest if he had an empty shoe box sitting on the floor for over a year.

 

2 - It just goes to show you how much these gift cards meant to him if he never went looking for them or tried to use them.

 

3 - I know have my Valentines day shopping done for the children's father.......he's getting a gift card to Subway and itunes. It's the gift that keeps on giving.

 

Serves him right! I wonder if he'll use them this time or let me recycle them again for Christmas 2013.

My little Pony - MacGyver style

Who needs a Swiss army knife when you have a My

 Little Pony from a Happy Meal.

 

Today was one of the rare moments when I locked my bedroom door. I'm tired of being interrupted in the shower and decided to lock my door for 20 minutes while I showered and got ready for the day. My husbands children didn't like this very much and decided to start their criminal careers at an early age with some breaking and entering.

 

I walked out of my bathroom to discover two little children standing in my room, next to my previously locked door. The little one was holding my car keys, the 6 yr old was holding this little tool in her hand. She was so proud of the fact that she found a tool (the ponies wing) to open mommy's locked bedroom door.

 

 

 

I give them credit for creativity but didn't appreciate my unlocked door. We may want to give the Juvenile Criminal Justice System a heads up that they have three smart ones headed their way in the next few years. Let us pray that they start to use their gifts and talents for unlocking the worlds mysteries rather than unlocking doors of things that don't belong to them. Or I may be visiting them in Cell Block C some time soon.