Bad thing #3....My luck has to change!

As stated before...bad things come in 3's. With the news of Marcelino and Meeko's near death experience, I didn't think the 3rd thing would happen so quickly. The night we got home from Port Aransas, I realized that I lost a very special cross pendant that Matt gave me for Christmas after I had Aleena. I am not a huge jewlery person, but the few pieces that I do have are extremely important to me.


I looked everywhere for this pendant. I checked our luggage, clothes, drawers, trash, everywhere. I was certain I left it at work. The chain on the necklace was broken, so I had the pendant stored in a bag so that I can take the chain to get fixed. I remembered taking it out at work. When I arrived to work...no luck. I searched everywhere and even had an email go out to most of the office offering a reward for whoever finds it. With no responses, my spirit was depleting. I came home and decided to go dumpster diving. All I can say is GROSS. Even though it was our trash, it was still old, biodegrading trash, which stunk and was slimy. The pendant wasn't in the trash. I felt hopeless and sad. I told my friend Lee about my situation and why I was so depressed. She told me the week before the exact thing happend to her. She too was told to pray to St. Joseph and bam, she found it the next day...in a parking lot of a strip mall no less, 4 days after she lost it.


I was desperate. I prayed about 150 times. I just prayed and prayed and prayed. The next day, I was clearly depressed at work. I didn't speak much and just kept thinking about the pendant. Even Matt was confused as to why this impacted me so much. I cried over it I was so sad. I told them that this pendant signifies a milestone in my life and is irreplaceable. I have the ring that Matt gave me when we were 16 and dating for 3 months, my engangement and wedding ring obviously significant milestones for both. Then this pendant represents the birth of our baby. It was a cross with a mother and child inside.


I was telling the story to a coworker about my lost pendant and as I was talking I was brainstorming. I remembered spilling my purse at the vet clinic when I was examining Meeko's xrays. I told myself to call, but got busy at work. On my way home I decided to call the vet. I started to explain that I was looking for a cross and the girl happily said "Oh yes, I have it right here, is it in a baggie?" I broke down crying. This poor girl had no idea what was wrong with me. I apologized to her and thanked her graciously as if she saved my life. I called my friend Lee and told her that the prayers worked and that my pendant was found. I am so grateful and I truly believe that these prayers to St. Jospeh found my pendant. I drove straight to the vet clinic to get my pendant....elated and relieved.


Here is a picture of my pendant. Notice the mother and child inside. I love this cross!

Aleena a few weeks old. I am wearing my pendant.