Positive Thoughts

Today's positive thought was easy to find.  My oldest two children had a day free from school.  My daughter spent the day with Grandma for craft making, gardening, and shopping.  But my son got to spend it at work with me.

For my kids, there are some really special things about "mom's work."  There are always M&Ms outside my office (compliments of my coworkers), television, hot chocolate, and sometimes popcorn in the student coffee house around the corner, a stage and large, open running space adjacent to the coffee house, and a building full of mystery.

Today, my son discovered a REAL mystery!

So, I handed him the camera (to be just like Cam Jansen) and sent him off to spy...

While he was clearly not in the mood to write the whole story, I am eager to share!

It all started when, after lunch, my son saw a "riding thing" moving about the building.  He just couldn't believe that you could drive something INSIDE the building.  He had to find it!

He went to the third floor, poked his head around the corner, and there it was - a lift (used to change light bulbs that are really high in the air).  Once he discovered the lift and the two men driving it, he watched quietly.  Then he darted down to the food area to give me the full report.  

As he was telling of his great spy work, one of the two men walked down the center staircase.  He said kindly, "Oh, you were the little boy upstairs."  My son looked at me and uttered, "Busted".  "I am 50% percent, though, Mom.  The other guy didn't see me.  If he had, I'd be 0% and if neither guy saw me, I'd be 100%."

We decided that he should find out what they were planning to do with the lift and where they were going.  He searched the building high and low.  

 He even gathered a search team (my secretary who was all too willing to leave her desk and loves Cam Jansen books).  

 
 The duo even recruited Public Safety officers to help them solve the, now, Case of the Missing Lift.

My son got a tip!  The lift was often stored in a room call Studio, which is really a large storage area that may some day be the television studio for the College.  With keys in hand, the Public Safety Supervisor escorted my son to the Studio.

His heart raced as they approached the ominous set of doors.  

  

The Public Safety Supervisor turned the keys and my son swallowed hard.

There it was...              back in its home...                      THE LIFT.

(And he forgot to get the photo in all his excitement!)

Cam Jansen he is not.  But a budding spy/detective, filled with curiosity, he is.  This was the best part of the day for him.

For me, though, it was this...