mission accomplished!

i found the passports. yay :)

it was just this morning, in a pile of papers/books/magazines that had been on the corner of my counter for oh, about a month and a half. i had gone through it, i swear, probably twice and recently relocated this pile to my office to officially sort through a file (okay some is totally trash but my primary method of filing is to pile everything up for two months, and then eventually go through it and anything outdated gets pitched, anything file-able gets filed and therefore i always seem to have what i need on hand until it's outdated and subsequently pitched). so i'm sitting at my desk and randomly look into the middle of the pile of papers and there it is, a pink envelope with two passports in it, yee haw!

just the other day i told mother, "I swear i had your passports on my counter on top of a pile of papers and when you and julie stopped by after your trip i told you to grab your passports." and my mother had to admit that did sound familiar. then today when i called, jubilant, to tell her i'd found them she said she had just asked my sister, "when we stopped by joanna's house after the trip did she tell us the passports were on the counter for us?" and julie said yes. so, at least i'm not crazy-it was both of our faults, i did have them out for them, and i assumed they took them, but then they got lost in the paper shuffle and each of us were certain the other had those darn things. if only passports were neon yellow or something, that might help.