Retrouvé!

One month ago, the kids hid one of my gold Toms and one of Nigel's shoes in a toy box and put it on the terrace outside Matthew's room. Isabelle found them the next day while she was tidying. Later that evening though, I realized that I still only had one shoe. I didn't want to say anything to Christine because of the fuss that she had made over the shoes being gone in the first place, and secretly, I thought that maybe she hid it to "teach me a lesson". I asked the kids if they knew where they were, and they either responded with they didn't know or that they put them in the bin. I searched the house high and low for the rest of vacation and by the end I had given up hope and thought that maybe the kids really did throw them away.

But this evening, the kids were asking for all their toys that I hide on top of the large bureau in the living room when they are being naughty. One by one I stood on a step-stool and tiptoes to get them down. With two wolf-masks to go, I looked up and saw my shoe peeking two inches over the top edge. I was rather dazzled by it, as most people are the first time they see them, but after maybe ten seconds of gazing at them while being pummeled by Thomas and Matthew as they were demanding that I retrieve their wolf-masks, I finished clearing the top of the bureau and had my shoe back.

I still don't know how it got up there, and frankly I don't really care. I'm happy to have it back.