Another Lesson Learned........or Not.

It was Friday. Grant left his ipod outside. Jacob, being the nice big brother he is, picked it up. And set it on the back bumper of my van. Then I left - with the ipod still on the bumper. And then it rained. Greg called me to tell me what had happened. I went out to look and see if, by chance, the ipod was miraculously still stuck to the bumper, but to no avail. When I arrived back home, I had 2 children crying, one whimpering as he cried himself to sleep and one who really didn't care. In order they were Jacob, Grace, Grant and Jadyn. Jacob was upset about what had happened and that he had caused Grant to lose his ipod. Grace was hysterical (of course she was) because Grant didn't have an ipod anymore and that just wasn't fair. "He is so little and so sad." Well, maybe he shouldn't have had an ipod in the first place. Ever think of that? Jadyn was asleep and could have cared less. And Grant, too, was sleeping but whimpering through it because he had totally cried himself to sleep. Greg had yelled, so when I got home I needed to "talk". I laid in bed with Jacob and talked over the whole thing and chalked it up to a mistake - and they happen all the time - and we just needed to learn from it and be more careful from now on.

Fast forward to Sunday. I went outside to play basketball with Jacob. I had my iphone with me and didn't want to drop it so I set it down. On the running board of Greg's van. Yep, I did. A few minutes later Greg came out and said he was going to Meijer - did Jacob want to go with him? So Jacob got in the van and away they drove. A few minutes later Greg called the house phone and his question to me was "Where is your phone?" Oh crap! He said that Jacob reminded him that my phone was on the running board. So I jumped in my van and carefully drove down my driveway, and headed towards Meijer. I found my phone at the entrance to our sub. It was lying face down and did not look like anyone had run it over - yet. I picked it up, hopeful. As I turned it over, I realized I was too late. The screen was smashed to smithereens. It was so bad. But then guess what? It still worked!!!!

Fast forward to Greg being mad at me. Me apologizing to Jacob. Saying that sometimes lessons aren't learned the first time, and when this happens it usually gets more costly. And it did. $90 to get the screen replaced. $40 for a new case to keep it safer.

Then the unthinkable happened......Grant's ipod was found on the recliner in the basement! Oh. My. Word.