iStolen

Wednesday morning we discovered that someone had rummaged through our van looking for things to steal. The various compartments and little drawers in the dashboard had been opened and all their contents had been scattered. There wasn't much in there for them to take - about 75 cents in change - and then I remembered that I had seen Cecilia's iPod in the van just the day before. When I looked in the back where it had been, it was clear that it had been taken.

*A quick note about her iPod: Our children don't play video games, they don't have cell phones, or TVs in their room, and we don't have cable television. The iPod was a gift from Santa last Christmas and was really meant to be something special, not a just another way to add to their consumption of media.

As such, I was PISSED. (Please forgive my language, Linda.) It's my understanding that Santa pays Apple good money for those things. We filed a police report with the knowledge that pawn shops have some reporting requirement with the police department, and Santa had the good sense to engrave Cici's name onto the actual iPod.

Cecilia was understandably disappointed, but we're all trying to look at this as a lesson learned. In the grand scheme of things we have nothing to complain about, and Santa probably has the resources for a new iPod this year. But still - ARGH!!