I found the Wii

This story began over a year ago when I began packing boxes in preparation for selling our house in Houston.  It was spring 2014 and I asked Emily if she wanted to have the Nintendo Wii that was currently in our play room.  Since Mike and I were going to put most of our belongings in storage until our new house was built it seemed more practical to let Emily have the Wii as she was moving into an apartment and could actually play with it.  So I offered it to her and she said yes.

I packed a box including all of the Wii accessories and told Mike to take it to our storage unit until we got around to driving it to Illinois where Emily's apartment would be.  In the meantime, Emily also said yes to taking a lot of our other stuff.  She actually ended up with the master bedroom furniture, the playroom couch, a hall tree, etc.  We had a lot of stuff to take to her last June but somehow the Wii box never made it.

I apologized to Emily and said that we must have left it in Houston with the rest of our storage items. At that point, we had hired a moving company to move all of our Houston storage to storage in Illinois as the house still wasn't built.  This would happen in October 2014.  I would see that Emily got the Wii box then.

I want you to know that I actually stood in front of the moving truck when it came to Illinois and watched every box go into to storage.  I told the movers what I was looking for and they checked the boxes too.  Somehow it made it past us and into one of three jam packed storage units.  No one was going to be able to find that box now until we unpacked the storage units when the new house was completed.

Larry, the builder, was wise enough to never give us a move in date but Mike came up with them all on his own.  Since we were bricking the house and you needed warmer weather in which to do that, he decided the house would be completed in April.  April came and went.  May came and went.  And then finally on June 5, 2015, we moved into the house and coincidence or not, Emily arrived that very day.  She stayed all weekend but still no Wii box.  She and Mike were convinced I had given it to Goodwill a year ago and this was all a hoax.  Yesterday, I found the box.  It was one of 10 remaining unopened boxes in the house.  I have included the picture so you can see how the box was marked.

So, Emily, I have been thinking.  Now that I have a house and the space in which to use the Wii, I think it should stay here.  What do you think?