A Thief in the Night

Well, the Good family hit an all new low this week...without even realizing it. It all started on Wednesday night after supper. As we were cleaning up, we discussed the need for a new trash can since the foot/step opener is broken on ours. Since Linens 'n Things is going out of business, we decided to check out trash cans there. After walking around the entire store, we found the selection of trash cans at the far side of the front of the store. Unfortunately, they were still well over a hundred bucks, so we opted not to buy one. Instead, we headed over to Home Depot to continue browsing things for our home. Even though it was frigid outside, Shawn moved Joshua & Caleb out of the Linens 'n Things cart into a Home Depot cart before going in even though the stores are right next to each other. I can say that my husband ALWAYS wants to do the right thing. (Which is why this story is so funny...)


We walked all through Home Depot. One of the first things we saw was our bathroom floor tile on sale, which you could buy by the piece. Since one of our tiles has shifted, we thought this was a great find! Shawn picked up three to be safe and placed them in our cart behind little Caleb Luke's carseat. We continued to look around at carpet vs. carpet tiles vs. area rugs. We moved on from there, checking out paint colors (we're thinking about painting our family room - not sure that we want to take on a big project right now, though). We picked up a few pamphlets of samples and kept going. But, Joshua was getting tired of being in the cart at that point, so we let him walk. After a little bit, we decided maybe we had been shopping long enough with two little ones. Caleb was getting hungry and almost eating his arm, and Joshua was restless. As we left the store with our cart, we discussed the logistics of who should carry who or should we take the cart across the parking lot. We opted for Daddy to take Joshua and me to carry Caleb (the opposite of what we did on the way in). As I grabbed the carseat, I noticed the paint pamphlets, which we had completely forgotten about.

When we got home, we all got into our pajamas, and I drank a nice cup of hot chai as I fed Caleb. We chatted about house renovations and started cleaning out our old entertainment center that we're planning on getting rid of...and it still didn't hit me, until later that night. We had picked up floor tiles! We had put them in our cart! And, we had taken the cart out of the store...not stopping to pay for them! Since it was pitch black out, I never even saw the tiles when I was in a hurry to grab Caleb and get him in the car out of the windy weather. I saw the paint pamphlets, but not the tiles. Hopefully a clerk found them and put them back. Either way, I think we can be classified as shoplifters now. Shawn & I laughed - and I was horrified at the thought that someone could have accused us of stealing as we left the store! He said that the workers probably saw us with two young children, stumbling throughout the store in our tired stupor and had mercy on us.

So, we stole and ended up with nothing in the end. And, we really wanted the tiles! Haaaa!!! So, now we can say "been there, done that" for shoplifting. Please forgive us of our sin!