Almost first day of school

Boomer and Jackson decided they both wanted to do homeschool this year.  ( I think Jackson might have talked Boomer into it)  Home school gives us the flexibility to start the school year whenever we want so, we decided to start our new year in the summer and work year round only three days a week. This gives us Monday and Friday to do extracurricular activities (Piano lessons, Sports, Dr appointments etc.).


I should be traditional, and have the kids take a picture with their teacher on the first day of school.  (This would not be a pretty sight..the boys teacher would be wearing glasses and pajamas and look tired from staying up till midnight planning for school.) We therefore don't have a picture of the boys on their first day of school.

However, Sadie did start preschool this year. I loaned my camera to my Mom and Sadie lost my phone (which is a great story that I will tell below) the morning of her first day at school.  So we have a few pictures from the second day of school.


Story as promised.  First thing in the morning, Sadie got my phone and started playing games on it.  She then carried it out to the garage where I was cleaning up our mess of packing boxes.  When I came in from cleaning,  I was looking for my phone and calling it but could not find it anywhere.  After about an hour of looking, I started to check the garbage in fear it had gotten thrown out.  (It was garbage day as well).  Not being able to find it I turned to the internet and found this fantastic app that will help you find your phone if it is lost. It's called plan B.

 I downloaded plan B onto my phone and follow the instructions which eventually sent an email telling me where the phone was on a map.  The map pointed to a neighbors house about 200 feet away.  My kids were nowhere near the neighbors house, so now I'm guessing that the app isn't very accurate.  I search the house again, my car, my purse, Sadie's room again. I've already checked under beds and in the garage.  I'm about to give up when again the app tells me that the phone is at the neighbor's house.  There is no reason to believe the phone is at the neighbors house.  But what should I do?

On a crazy whim, I knock on the neighbors door.  She cracks open the door and her dog is barking like crazy.  She says "just a minute" and then comes back with my phone.  Whaaaaaa?????  Seriously, I had to give her a hug.  She found it when she was taking her Dog for a walk, on the sidewalk outside our house. She had tried to call and email me but I was so frantic looking for the thing I hadn't checked my phone messages or my email.  Thank heavens for technology....Now, I just need an app to help me find my missing keys.