MISSING: $1,000...

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Growing up we knew these two little old ladies...Doris and Dorothy.  They were twins...and now looking back, even though they don't look alike...I can't tell you which one is which!

We would go and visit them during the week, help them plant their garden, watch the Grape Festival Parade from their porch (they lived in that big white house right across the street to the south of the Nauvoo Temple), they would come over for Thanksgivings and visit us on Christmas Day.  We each got a 5-pack of Wrigley gum and a $5 bill every Christmas.  Sometimes it was Juicy Fruit. 

I remember when we would visit their house...they had the COOLEST things I like to 'play' with, even though they weren't toys!  They had a glass paperweight I loved to hold every time I was there.  They had a mini cast iron stoves with tiny little pots and pans on a shelf I thought was really neat.  They had one of those things you would look into and you'd put a double picture at the other end and it would look 3-D.  They also had one of those wooden peg games...that was one of my favorites too!

The one with the silver hair (on the right in all the pictures...Doris I believe)...died first.  I was in high school I think.  Dorothy died a few years later...I was in college in Idaho so I wasn't able to go to the funeral (not that I would of because I loathe funerals)...  That summer after she died, we got some stuff from her lawyers saying they had left us something in their will.  In some later paperwork we got from them they said she had left me, Nathan, Tacy and Jessie all $1,000 savings bonds.  I remember asking my mom what that meant and she explained that it was $1,000, but it wasn't all there yet.  It had to mature, so it was going to be quite a few years before it would be worth the full $1,000.  I was excited of course!  Well, a few weeks later, we got another thing from those lawyers saying that they had also left us each $5,000!!  Only, it was a check...not a bond.  I asked my mom if we had to wait to have it  and she was there was no waiting...it was an actual check for each of us.  So, we each got straight up $5,000 dollars!  I had already been looking at getting a new car that summer, and so my parents used my portion right away towards that car.  The other 3 kids got theirs put into the bank and have used it since for tuition, rent and whatever. 

I have always remembered in the back of my mind that someday that other bond would mature and it would be a nice little surprise to have.  Of course...in between then and now I have had financial things where I would of loved to use that money...but I never even considered it or even asked my mom about it because... in my mind...it had to mature for a very long time.  I've thought about it off and on...I remember even mentioning it to Daron as something I had there and someday...when it had matured fully...we would have it to use for whatever we needed. 

So the the other day we were going over the bills and stuff and configuring when we would get which ones paid of and what have you...and once again I mentioned that $1,000...and wondered how far along it was.  So that's when Daron asked where the bond was..."Cause if you have a savings bond...that's an actual piece of paper that you have.  So you or your mom would have it"  Well...of course I didn't have it, so I called my mom to see what the status of this whole bond situation was.

Come to find out...I guess I invented the whole "$1,000 Savings Bond" thing up.  No one in my family has any recollection of such a thing.  Even Tacy...who remembers EVERYTHING!  My mom says "some parts of the story sound vaguely familiar...I will have to dig around in my files to see what I can find."  Well, that doesn't boost my confidence.  I think someone would remember if they were holding onto $4,000 worth of savings bonds. 

I am just so dang confused as to how I have such a clear recollection of it...if it never happened.  When we got the checks for the $5,000 I specifically remember thinking "I hope I don't have to wait too many years to use that money like I have to wait for that other savings bond thing we got!" 

It's a mystery...I wish I had a Delorean that could take me back in time so I could figure this out!