Lost and Found Prizes

One of the rejects from the family Christmas photo shoot.

The Man thought we looked like we were singing. I thought we looked like Byers Choice Carolers. Kind of the same thing.

(photo credit to The Wooden Duck Shoppe)

Needless to say, we are NOT using that photo.

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A friend, LK, and I are in charge of coming up with holiday party games for this year's work party. We put a few games together last year and people seemed to have a good time so we were drafted to do it again this year.

I kind of figured we would be taking charge again so after Christmas last year I found some marked down holiday items and picked them up to use as prizes for this year's party. I stored them in the basement with all the holiday decorations and we found the prizes a few weeks ago when we were pulling out the decorations.

Since the party is coming up in a couple of nights, we needed to start putting the prizes together. But we couldn't remember what we did with them. We remembered finding them in the basement so we went down there and searched all over. We opened every single box possible. We looked on shelves, in cabinets, under chairs.

No prizes. 

Uh-oh. That's where we last remembered seeing them. We could have a problem. We talked back and forth, trying to think of where we could have put them. Somewhere safe, that's for sure. So safe we couldn't find them.

LK's face lit up. "Did we bring them upstairs? Didn't we put them in the coat closet?" she asked.

"Oh, yes! I definitely remember doing that!" I exclaimed, so happy we remembered where we put them. We took the elevator back upstairs and checked the coat closet.

Uh-oh. No prizes. Gulp. Where could these prizes be? We started opening closet doors, checking drawers, looking in boxes. No prizes. I couldn't believe we were going to have to buy more prizes for the party.

Suddenly, LK said, "The Cheez-It box! Under my desk!"

And we looked under her desk and found the prizes in the Cheez-It box.

We started laughing. She's been seeing that box under her desk for the past few weeks and gets hungry every time she sees it. She knew she couldn't throw it out but didn't remember why.

Ha.