Yesterday was the saddest day we have experienced in a very long time.  You see, in a little boy's heart lies a special place for a brown fuzzy "Teddy Doggie."  This Teddy Doggie has gone everywhere with the little boy.  Waking, sleeping, washing the dishes, going potty. Whatever this little boy does, the teddy doggie comes along, and has been a faithful companion.

You see, yesterday mommy made a mistake.  She thought Teddy doggie would be fine going to the mall for an outing. So we went to the mall and played in the play area with some friends, and Jedidiah brought his little doggie with him. Our time was cut short there because my friend's friend wanted to meet someone at Chuckie Cheese, and I decided to tag along.  When we arrived at the Chuckie Cheese I realized that I am not a Chuckie Cheese kind of parent.  I left earlier than anticipated because I thought I might have a brain aneurysm from sensory overload, and I realized that neither Jedidiah or I could eat anything from the overly priced menu because we are both are on elimination diets to see if we have a food sensitivity.  Doing this diet has made social situations very "interesting" to say the least.  I will write more about that later, when my children are grown.  That is when I will find more time to write regularly.

So we left there, and even though I was assuming that the little boy hated being in the Chuckie Cheese as much as his mamma, he cried bitter tears when we left, clenching his 1/2 pint of apple juice that I paid almost two dollars for.  Even though the only thing I wanted to do at that point was go outside, I discovered that the Target was luring me in. I don't know what I wanted to do at Target because I did not have any money to spend there.  I already spent all of my money at Costco the week before, because that's what you do when you go to Costco, spend all of your money.  Yet Target summoned me and I went.  I walked around there for a bit and then left and went to my car.  On the way out the door the little boy said "Where Teddy Doggie go?"  I stopped in my tracks.  The last I could remember seeing the doggie was a long while back in the play area.  I frantically looked in the stroller and in my purse, as if the dog would have fit in there.  I began to panic, and then I went back into the Target and walked up and down every isle I was in.  I then went back to the play area.  No doggie. 

So I hung my head low and thought about how I was going to tell this poor child that his most beloved companion was missing.  How do you explain this sort of loss to a two year old?  I decided to not breech the subject.  When he asked again, I gave him a banana.  He was happy.

I then went to bring Isaiah his lunch.  Isaiah was happy to see me but not happy that all he had was lettuce and a peanut butter sandwich on Gluten free bread, and then he was even more sad when I told him the heart breaking news of the loss of Teddy Doggie.  Isaiah then decided that we would drive back to the Chuck E Cheese and ask around.  No luck there.  So when Isaiah got home from work he called every place I was in and asked if they had found him.  No luck.

When I put Jedidiah to bed that night he cried heartbreaking tears and said "Teddy Doggie" over and over again. I gave him a different teddy bear, knowing that this could never replace the real thing...... and he smiled gratefully and went to sleep.  At that moment I guess I realized that I was more attached to the idea of the stuffy than he was to his stuffy.  I had great dreams for the animal.  I wanted to one day put it in a box somewhere and when he was a grown man and married I could send it to him and tell him "this was your teddy doggie."   Now the Teddy Doggie was gone. I am going to cry.

Only, the next day Isaiah did not give up.  He called Everywhere in the gateway mall to find Jedidiah's lost stuffy.  I told him I had dealt with it, and Jedidiah had moved on, don't worry about it.  But my husband had great concern for little boy's dog, and would not stop looking.  And lo and behold, we found him.  He was wrapped in a plastic bag nice and neat and left carefully in a lost and found box right behind the customer service desk at Target.  We travled three miles to retrieve him.  We held Jedidiah way high up and said "Look!  What's that?" We were hoping to get an adorable reaction so that the teen aged boy behind the counter would think our child was adorable. Jedidiah didn't do much, and they guy was not that amused.  But Isaiah was thrilled out of his mind so he let me meander around Target again so I could see what their new produce section was like.  We had a good time doing that, we looked around and I almost got applesauce but the lines were way too long when we went to check out so we left empty handed, except the little boy and his sweet Teddy Doggie.
The end.

mmmmmm.....Lunch.....

Five and a half years ago.......... 

Good evening,  I am about to write my very first movie review/critique!

The movie was called The Town.  If you have a strong desire to watch this movie, I am going to give you a giant spoiler alert: stop reading here.  But if you want to be enlightened and chuckle, keep reading.

So, the story:  A group of professional bank robbers rob a bank in a violent manner, beating up a guy in the process, in order add some gratuitous violence. Meanwhile, conveniently (and for no apparent reason except to build a story) they blindfold a pretty girl bank teller and take her captive for a short time. They pick her up, blindfold her, drive her around town, sit her real close to Ben Afflick in the back of a dark van, then drop her off a bit later by a lake so she has an opportunity to get really frightened so a hansome man will need to come to her rescue later in the movie.

Not only did they kidnap the girl, but they took her driver’s liscense. So the girl goes straight to the police, but then directly home where she lives by herself, even though all the bad guys are killers who all know where she lives. (But hey, one of them is exceptionally attractive, so who cares?)

So, of course, it was a big OOOPS to kidnap the girl for no reason, (except to probably build a romance so girls will pay to go see this movie) because now she is a witness to a crime, therefore she must die.  But of course, they must send the hunk to do the job, who immediately forgets his mission to kill her so he can ask her out on a date.

Are you excited so far?  Well you should be.  Know why?  Well, on this amazing couple's first date, right at minute 24, lo and be hold there is a windsor nature discovery poster. Windsor Nature Discovery is a wildlife indentification charts and poster business that we own and we proudly support our award-winning and amazing poster to be presented in this hollywood feature film. Okay, so I am not sure if our posters have won awards, I have to ask about that one.  But they are pretty amazing.

So, now that the very, very cute bank robber and pretty girl are officialy dating and our fish poster is involved, the movie gets VERY exciting.  Because now the cute bank robber has found his love match, but she does not know that he was her abductor.  They go on several dates and he is really sweet to her, thus completely redeeming him from all previous evils he has committed.  While he never tells her his secret, the FBI does.  When she learns he once abducted her she becomes a bit skeptical of her new boyfriend, but since he talks sweetly to her and promises her that he has never lied about anything else, it’s all good in the hood . . .

Until he MUST commit one last shoot-em-up robbery.  Don’t worry—this is all part of his journey toward redemption. You see, some other bad guy threatens to kill his true love unless he robs a baseball stadium. Because you can't be redeemed unless you kill people and rob a bank in order to rescue your true love, he goes forward with his plan and it’s all exciting because there are guns and lots of crazy driving involved, thus getting lots of guys to pay to watch this movie.  Unfortunately (yet conveniently for plot purposes), cops found out what he was going to do because he told his very irate ex-girlfriend about his plan for some reason that remains unclear. So, in the process of seeking redemption by protecting his girlfriend's dignity by robbing a baseball stadium of a million dollars, he kills a bunch of cops and all of his friends die. Fortunately, he escapes and then goes to kill the bad guys who set him up for the robbery (because he is not bad himself, of course). In a sudden fit of altruism, he takes the money (that he stole) and buries it in his girlfriend’s garden so she will find it later and be able give the STOLEN money to charity. He leaves her a note telling her all about how bad he has been, and basically implying that he was going to go away, maybe to a cabin on a lake somewhere where he can think about his bad behavior.  Everyone is relieved that he learned his lesson and escaped his just punishment.  The End.

This was a movie we would not typically have ever invested a few hours in.  But it was well worth it, because we have been happily making fun of it ever since we saw it. And in the end, we saw a Windsor Poster in a famous movie!!!!!