Yesterday I was digging through my jewelry box to find a bracelet when I noticed my small gray box containing my grandmother's pearls was missing. Gone. Disappeared. I ripped apart my room, Gwen's room, anywhere I could possibly think of, but I can't find them. On top of this, I am trying to remember the last time I saw them in there--was it a week ago? A month? Two months? I am not 100% sure the last time I saw them, but I know they were there this summer.
My dad had these pearls strung into a choker and bracelet and bought me a pair of matching earrings for my wedding day. I hardly ever wear them, but still hoped to someday pass them on to Gwen. I don't know what they are worth, but the sentimental value to me is priceless and I am so sad. I know the jewelry, in theory, could be replaced, but not my attachment to the ones that belonged to my grandma who died a little over a year before Hawksbill and I were married.
It seems there are only a few possible explanations: 1) I put them somewhere to keep them safe and forgot where they are 2) They were accidentally thrown away somehow, or 3) they were stolen (but by whom and why take this one box as it appears nothing else is missing??)
I know that a million worse things could have happened to me yesterday, but I am still really blue about this.
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry: for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. –Albert Einstein
About us
We are a homeschooling family of four. Barbnocity is the mom. Hawksbill is the dad. Our kids are 6 and 9 years old. We both contribute to the blog, making it a family project. We write about our homeschool, our life, our kids and anything else that comes to mind.
Barbnocity's Found Money Project 2010:
Money found as of 12/14/10: $71.25 USD; $8.45 CAD;
$2.01 AU; $0.01 Irish penny
Hawksbill has a 2nd blog where he writes about his hobbies over here.
Barbnocity's Found Money Project 2010:
Money found as of 12/14/10: $71.25 USD; $8.45 CAD;
$2.01 AU; $0.01 Irish penny
Hawksbill has a 2nd blog where he writes about his hobbies over here.
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