Burgaled!

I usually describe living in Lagrange as living in the Andy Griffith Show town of Mayberry. Everybody knows everybody else. People look after others and run errands for each other. They sit on their porches in the evening watching the sunset. I have actually had people come over holding shoes/backpacks (one time even my mail) that they found at the park and wonder if they might belong to us which usually it does.

Any way, yesterday the boys (and girl) and I spent all day in Cheyenne. Usually for me a day in Cheyenne with the kids is like herding 12 wild cats at a dog pound, but yesterday was quite smooth.

We went to the bank, the dentist (4 kids for fillings, one ortho check), then sack lunch at the park and ice cream at Cold Stone, a treat from Grama. Next was the hospital for abdominal xrays and blood work for Josiah. NEVER attempt to park a 15 passenger van in a hospital parking garage.

We were able to visit my dean of women, Mrs. Downare, who is in the hospital recovering from a stroke. She and Mr. D and their wonderful daughters Christy and Cathy brought ALL the boys (and girl) into her room for a visit. It was special for all of us.

Then we walked down to the Hershler building to say hello to Matt at work. The kids have never been there (he started that position right before the snake bite). His boss was outside and saw 8 children walking along and figured we must belong to Matt and invited us all in. We got a tour of the building and met all the coworkers (received candy and pop from each and every one of them). Then Matt took us over to the Capitol to meet the people he works with in the Govenors office. The ladies there gave us the full tour of the govenors office including the secret candy vault where they received more candy and pop.(I've been wondering how the kids have so many cavities!).

We stopped by Walmart for a few groceries and then gas and went home getting back around 6:30. I was exhausted and rested for 20 minutes while surfing facebook. When my laptop battery ran out I got up and looked for the charger. It was not where I left it. odd.

I wanted to keep surfing so I went to get the kids laptop out of the office. It was GONE! BURGLED! We all knew where I had left the charger that morning AND several children said, "yes they had seen the laptop in its spot that morning."

I looked around for any other missing items. The cash lying on my dresser was still there, my camera, my laptop all there. I looked around the yard and I found... A CLUE! The neighbor boy's bike was in the yard.

We knew there was MOTIVE because his laptop was broken and he wanted to try my charger to fix it. He also knew we would be out of town.

When Matt got home we decided the offense was enough to not deal with it our selves. The sheriff came out and asked a few questions and left. 30 minutes later he was back at our house items in hand. RETURNED!

So that was my big day.

Do I still live in Mayberry? Yes! Things still go wrong in Mayberry just usually there is a good outcome and the community is still there for each other. Though I just might lock my front door to help keep the kid out of trouble.