We miss you, Sleepsack!

Sad news...Ms. Feefack Buffein was presumably lost in T. F. Green Airport in Providence, Rhode Island, the last weekend in April. We were traveling to our friend Diana’s reunion in Marion, Massachusetts. FeeFee was last seen being tossed in the air and caught by Lucas near the rental car counter. We didn’t realize she was gone until bedtime that night. Mentally retracing our steps, we figured out that she most likely was dropped between the rental car counter and the place where you pick up your car about two miles away.

April, 2011

Over the weekend, we called the airport and rental car lost and found numbers repeatedly. [Sidenote: the airport police, who handle lost articles, are wonderful people. We called them a half-dozen times, and they always took very seriously our request to look for “a small child’s light green blanket with a moon embroidered on the front, actually a sleepsack with a broken zipper”.]  On our return flight, we visited all the customer service counters we could find, to no avail.

June, 2010

Lucas had a great time at the house in Marion, but would occasionally lapse into a quick fit of whines or tears for Feefack.  When it became apparent in the airport on our way home that she wasn’t coming with us, he was pretty stoic about it, though immensely sad. He still brings her up regularly. Yesterday at breakfast he asked, apropos of nothing,  “Why didn’t anyone turn Feefack in to the lost and found??”

July, 2009

The week after we the trip, mom took Lucas to Babies R Us to pick out a replacement sleepsack. He was very interested in all the new styles, but insisted he wanted a green one with a moon on the front. Then we went down the blanket aisle and he thought maybe he’d like a blankee instead. Then he spotted a small, square, pink blanket/cuddly with Piglet’s head attached. He went crazy. “I want that! That one! Piglet! PIGLET!” 

Piglet, unfortunately, has only filled a small part of the sleepsack emotional void. We miss you, Ms. Feefack Buffein, and hope things are pleasant for you, wherever you are.