Sometime this summer, Lily's "purple" blankie got chewed down to a little shred. We safety pinned the shred to the backup "white" blankie. Eventually, Lily got annoyed by the pin and took it off and just had the white blankie. Then one day, about 3 weeks ago now, she lost the white blankie in Wal-Mart. We didn't realize it till we reached the van. We retraced our steps and asked every employee and left a note at customer service.
Ever since then, Lily has jumped when the phone rang, "Mom, that might be my white blankie." The first few times we went back to Wal-Mart (we go there a lot!), she looked under every shelf and display. We've checked back at customer service a couple more times.
So today we were at Wal-Mart again, and Lily started talking about her blankie, wondering where it could be. I tried to gently break the news to her. "Honey, it might be gone." I wondered what the people around us thought as I tried to explain to Lily how it could possibly have happened that her precious blankie could have been confused with a rag or something else that would have gotten thrown away. We checked at customer service one more time; no blankie. Lily started to cry.
At that point we were waiting in the checkout, so I could give her a long hug. I have to say I was sad too for her sake. It was her most precious possession. Amazingly, she didn't have a total meltdown. She really has grown so much.
I was so touched, then, when we got home and I noticed an old, stiff piece of the purple blankie under some things on the kitchen counter. (which tells you something about the condition of my counters!) I showed it to Lily. She got excited for a minute. Then she tried to snuggle with it, and it was not snuggly, and she tried to chew it for a minute, and it must have lost its flavor, because then she handed it back to me and said she didn't want it anymore. "That's fine, honey, I'll put it in your baby book," I said.
Wasn't that so sweet of God to give my daughter closure like that?? He watches every sparrow...
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