Desperately Seeking Sax

So, Thursday after school Tanner anxiously went out the door, after mumbling to Mom, "I'm going to look for my saxaphone." Not quite believing what she heard, Keri said, "What?!" After a pointed interrogation from Mom, Tanner finally admitted that he "lost" his saxaphone (still in its case) after getting off the bus the previous day (Wednesday) - which happened to be the day of the big blizzard! He seemed to think that it was somewhere near the snowbank by the bus stop. Upon further questioning, he admitted that some other boys were playing "hide Tanner's saxaphone" while Tanner was involved in a heated snowball battle. Tanner either forgot about it or couldn't find it, and didn't remember until the next day when he didn't have it for band class :-0

So Keri, Tanner, Landon & Clover started digging and searching the 4 foot high snow piles along the street by the bus stop. If the saxaphone was still here, it was now buried under another foot of snow that the snowplows pushed after the blizzard. At this point I arrived home from work, puzzled at the seemingly pointless family digging project, and soon found out about the "missing" saxaphone - which was only very recently paid off!! Keri said, "I've already said a prayer" - but I could tell from the concern (read: panic) in her voice that her faith was a bit less than perfect.

So, while everyone was frantically digging, I went up the door of the corner house and asked if, by chance, they had seen an unattended saxaphone in the last day. The lady of the house smiled, and said, "As a matter of fact, we have!" as she brought it out from the next room. Apparently her young son brought it in the previous day before it got dark. I thanked her and re-thanked her, and then slowly walked toward the search party, with the case strategically out of sight behind my back. I thought about letting Tanner "sweat it out" for a while, but instead just stood by and watched them dig for a minute until Tanner noticed what I had found. Then Keri saw it and shrieked, "No Way! - Prayers really ARE answered!!"

By now the boys involved in the "hide the saxaphone" activity had arrived to apologize and help in the search, after their parents found out what had happened. Since it was already found, they got to do some service by shoveling out the driveway of the corner house which saved the sax from the blizzard!

Tanner's name and phone number were inside of the case, but the "finders" hadn't taken the time to look inside yet. Before he left for school the next day, we put his name and number on the outside too. We told Tanner that it would take months (or years) of allowances to pay that one off!