BIG Lesson Learned...

Julia learned quite a lesson this week or maybe a few?! She learned the VALUE of a dollar, the VALUE of hard work and your earnings and a bit about friends and how FORTUNATE things can turn out! Ok ready for the story??
Julia has spent much, much time in the last 6 months or so babysitting and earning money to buy things she wants and go places . She did alot of work watching Brae and Nat overnights for Auntie Courtney and alot for me as well. She bought herself a Nintendo DS ($140) and also has 7 games ranging from $20-$30 all on her own and LOVES to play with it. It is very special to her as she worked so hard to get it!
On Monday her and her friend "K" took some of the kids over to the park and "K" had brought Julia's DS along and Julia didn't know about it. When they were on the way back they stopped at the batting cage to play and "K" sat it down by the cage and Julia noticed it then. They played and came home. Later on that evening Julia realized that it was gone and remembered seeing it there, we rushed over and it was GONE!!! She panicked and we called "K" to see if she grabbed it, NOPE!! Now we had noticed 2 boys over there earlier and knew who they were but left it at that.
For 2 days she looked and "K" began to act different and avoided us and didn't want the mothers to talk and things were not good for them. Finally on Wednesday I said "Julia you know the boy at the cage from school lets call and ask if he happened to see it there"? We did and he was gone but she left a message with his mom and that was that. We went on and just before supper the boys mom called and we talked, he had come home and asked for money to buy this DS that the other boy found at the park!! His mom quickly called me and we got stories straight and she gave me the name of the boy who had it. I looked them up as we know them from bowling and called only to find their number is no longer in service...UGH! I wrote down the address and talked to "K" mom and the girls did some mending of the friendship.
Supper we drove over and her and Brit went to the door to speak with the Father of the boy, just wanting to look to see if it was hers! To their surprise the girl who answered the door was PLAYING it !!! Brit asked for a parent and told him the situation and the Dad said yep this is it no problem and told the girl to give it up and get the case and games...and to make sure it was ALL there!!
Julia was so lucky to have this end this way, she got it back totally unharmed and in working order. Also all the games were there and the case!! She was in tears and so overwhelmed, she said she knows now and will always take care of HER things!!