A big surprise

This past Friday Brandon had the day off of school. Trevor and Christen did have school, so it was a nice time for Brandon and I to bond for awhile. I had left my purse in Todd's car so that was a bit of a bummer, but we grabbed some cash from the house and drove (carefully - as to not get a ticket without my licence) to do some errands. We went to the library, a few other places and on to Walmart.

By then we had $6. I needed to get some face washing wipes there. Funny how when you go to Walmart and you only need like one or two things but then you end up with all sorts of stuff in your cart. Well, we were a bit limited so we got the face wipes and they were $5.97 for the double pack. No big deal usually but I realized that we wouldn't have enough with tax. I had Brandon go out to the car to look for some change. It took him awhile so I put the wipes down and went out to the car. After scrounging around for quite awhile we came up with around 22 cents but we needed 42 cents -- I had checked. Feeling defeated, pathetic and poor we decided to just go home.

As we were going home Brandon was reading a Garfield comic book from the library. He grabbed a paper that was in there from before as a bookmark. As he pulled it out to mark his spot I realized that it wasn't just a piece of paper, but an envelope. It wasn't just a plain envelope, but it had some money in it! First, I pulled out a $20. Then, I pulled out another $20. THEN, I pulled out a $50!! Brandon said, "wow I've never even seen a $50 bill before! By this time we were beside ourselves, laughing and high fiving and amazed because we were just 2 minutes ago searching for another 25 cents and there we had all this money we didn't know about! It ended up being $101!!

So then after the shock wore off a bit we realized that someone must be missing that much money. We decided we should call the library and they could track down the last borrower. We called and then they called the other person and called us back. Sure enough it was missing. Brandon took the money to the library on Saturday. The librarian said that if they didn't come to pick it up in a few days they would call us back. It was a good lesson. Brandon said that he though that we would get points to got to the Celestial Kingdom for doing the right thing. A point for each dollar. That would be nice!