The Biggest Loser

The Biggest Loser: I lose everything. My Mom used to say “you’d lose your head if it wasn’t attached” and I think she was right. I’ve lost everything from socks to diamond rings and everything in between. There is an upside to being an experienced “loser” and that upside is that I have a lot of experience tracking stuff down and getting back. One time we lost Chloe’s shoe in the parking lot at Home Depot and drove back there later in the day and actually found it. One time I was in a restaurant and threw everything in my pocket into the trash can not realizing that my wedding was one of the things in my pocket. We actually finished our meals and left the restaurant before I realized the ring was gone. With my expert loser procedure in place I thought back to what possibly could have happened to the ring, determined that it must have been thrown in the trash, contacted the restaurant and asked them to save the trash from that specific trash can, they volunteered to look through the trash for me (I guess it is unseemly to have customers picking through the trash), they found the ring and I went back to get it. Casey is so used to me losing stuff and getting it back that he didn’t even yell at me for doing something so stupid. This is why I was baffled when we couldn’t track down Chloe’s bunny. I knew that we’d emptied their school bags as soon as we walked in the door and that was when I discovered Bunny was missing. The two places we went that day were school and Burlington Coat Factory, so went back to those two places 3 times in as many weeks and searched and asked around about Bunny. Even after 3 weeks Chloe was asking when we were going to get her “Real Bunny” back and I kept saying we’ll keep looking. When the kids can’t find a particular toy I always tell them that if you want to find something in the house, start cleaning up and it will show up. Turns out I should have taken my own advice because I was cleaning when I discovered the missing Bunny. What I didn’t realize was that Bunny had been stuffed into Chloe’s hat, and the hat had been put away in the proper hat place, also as soon as we walked into the door on the fateful day Bunny went missing. Anyway, Chloe was overjoyed to be reunited and Bunny has hardly left her side since. When Bunny first went missing I did tell Alex and Chloe that it was not a good idea to take Puppy and Bunny to school anymore. We’ll see tomorrow if Chloe finds it more important to keep track of Bunny by leaving her home, or to have Bunny by her side even at school.