Lost ~ A Tale of Woe

I put on my Nancy Drew hat.

I did my best Columbo shuffle.

I put my family through rigorous reenactments.

No one was leaving the crime scene until I had found my

FABRIC BASKETS.

I questioned their every motive.

Logic was the rule of the day.......

"Fabric Baskets don't just get up and walk away on their own"

I promised $$ to the innocent, and clemency to the guilty if they could just find my

fabric baskets!!!!!!!

Nowhere. Nada. Nothin'.

It was a common theme for my prayers morning and evening. After prayer, I had always found the misplaced keys, the tax check, the belt to the football pants, the tickets to the senior BBQ.

Apparently, I did not need these baskets. I could always make more.

After NOT finding them, I resolved that I had inadvertently thrown them away. I can't believe I did that! It was probably one of my kids. Although they never clean up so why would they have been using a garbage can??? Hmmm.

Once I was resolved to the fact that they were lying in a landfill, I started cutting out the materials for MORE. I re-read the instructions and slumped over to the sewing machine. I was so totally annoyed. I ALREADY MADE THESE ONCE!!!!

I dropped the material for the handles by my sewing machine table and low and behold.............THERE were my two baskets, MOCKING me from behind the closet door.

"OH, you're in so much trouble!", I blasted.

My fury was short lived.

I was so happy to have found them.

They were going to make a lovely home for these sewing kits.

And now they are off to their intended destinations. Surely, they will bring joy and happiness to my novice sewing friends and my suffering will not have been in vain!!
You were lost....but now you're found.