On the evening of Thursday the 19th at approximately 9 o'clock pm (PST) T was suffering from a migraine and not thinking entirely clearly, took off her wedding rings and placed them on the coffee table. When she went to bed she forgot to pick them up.
The next morning she walked past the table and saw one of the three bands sitting on the coffee table but the other two were no where to be found. After tearing up the couch and the immediate surrounding area of the coffee table she began to fear she may never see them again. Our apartment can be a bit of a black hole with a one year old and a two year old. At first questioning B said she didn't play with the rings, but she quickly told T that she had played with them which wasn't at all a surprise since she loves all jewelry and especially Mama's sparkly ring. Unfortunately, despite her honesty and her willingness to help us find the missing rings she was not able to give us any useful information which could lead to their recovery.
Gramma and Grampa searched high and low while T was running pre-Thanksgiving dinner errands. But it is very difficult to guess where a toddler may have been and what she might have been doing. Finally, on Friday night T found the second wedding band in one of the magazine holders (those holes in the spine are very attractive to little fingers...we've also found apple slices in there before). As excited as we all were to now have 66% of T's ring safe and sound on her finger, it was still heartbreaking to be missing the sparkly bit (the engagement ring).
Its about that time that T really broke down and cried. Even if we had the money readily available to replace the ring she didn't want another one. She wants to wear the ring she was married with for her whole life.
Saturday morning (our Thanksgiving day, appropriately) J was unloading the dishwasher and found the engagement band in the bottom of the silverware basket! The kids just wanted to clean Mama's ring for her; how sweet!
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