I needed a DO OVER button yesterday...

Yesterday was a full day...Gracie & Skylar sang in Chapel, there were errands to be run, a house to get straight, animals to be fed (and potty-trained...*big sigh*)...that was enough...but, no. I picked Gracie up from school and from 20 paces away, I could see the big frown. She got in the car and told me that she had lost her necklace with her half of she and Skylar's "Best Friends" charm. Oh my. I then turned to where her class sits on the sidewalk and saw Sky's equal dismay. Gracie and I searched the playground for 20 minutes and no luck. With a clenched gut, I made a phone call to Jack David. Our friend, Sergio, had, at one time, let us borrow a metal detector..."what one time" you ask? OK, definitely worth the digression...When Grace was 1, we were out and about on one of our daily feeding journeys and she was fed up with being in her car seat and screaming her head off...we were at the 646 property and I needed to get out and feed horses and cattle, but was trying to soothe her first. She saw my sparkly wedding bands and was immediately quieted, as she often was. So, (*insert ultra smart here*) Mommy gives her the rings and bolts to feed in the manner of speeding light...as I'm scooping feed five seconds later, wailing again fills my ears..."OK, she's dropped them", I think. In my most angelic voice, "OK, sweetie, Mommy is coming..." I feed, return to the car, climb in the back seat, look on the floor...NO RINGS. Yep...I had left the window open so that we could "talk" to one another and she CHUNKED them with all of her one-year-old might. I'm pretty sure I threw up right then and there. But, thankfully, Sergio brought a metal detector later and miraculously, I still have my wedding rings. *pausing, making sign of cross now*

OK, now back to this story... made the phone call asking Jack to ask Sergio if he still had the detector, as there was much detecting that needed to be done...yes! Still had the detector...pick it up at his house...go detecting...check! In the dark, the lovely little detector found Gracie's charm and necklace last night at about 8 PM. T.R.U.E. L.O.V.E. All is right with the world again.

As for this little stinker...he's doing better with his potty training, but ugh...I need sleep!


...and the rains are continuing...but we don't need any more...God, do you hear me?




Lexie is trying to brighten the gray clouds with sweet sugars...with her long, very sand-papery tongue...*ouch*

I was really hoping to upload the video of Grace and Sky singing in Chapel yesterday, but the file is just too big...if they update the school site, I'll post the link then. However, you can go here for a joke from Mr. Cullins, Gracie's school director. I don't know about you, but I can use all the help I can get in the humor department lately...*another big sigh*