Shoplifting.

I have prepared myself for the time when Jack or Thomas would "accidentally" walk out of the grocery store with a small item like candy or a toy.  I have planned how I would handle their first shoplifting experience.  I would take them back to the store, have them explain to the cashier or customer service person what had happened, and we would either pay for it, or return it.  I didn't think that this would happen in a place where I didn't speak the language, and I didn't think the person shoplifting would be me.  Okay, before you start questioning my integrity or morals, let me explain.  Every week I make a list of groceries we need in a notebook.  I am on my last few pages, and so on my list this week, I have a new notebook listed.  Both Ben and I needed a notebook, so we had two picked out.  When we got home, Ben asked me what color I bought, and I told him, I got the yellow one.  He asked me where it was.  I told him I thought it was in one of the bags, and he said that it wasn't.  At that moment I remembered where I put my new yellow notebook.  I went over to the diaper bag, and sure enough, there was the brand new, unpaid for yellow notebook.  Exactly where my notebook belongs.  I gasped. 
Ben looked at me, and asked if we had paid for it. 
Nope.  We sure didn't. 
Ben asked me what I was going to do about it, and I told him since he spoke Spanish, he could take it back. 
No.  You did it, you take care of it. 
He asked me what I was going to tell the people in the store. 
I laughed. 
Out of the Spanish vocab I have acquired, shoplifting, return, and embarrassed are not included. 
I had the drive to the store to figure out how in the world I was going to take back the yellow notebook.
How did I take care of it?  I left the yellow notebook in my diaper bag, walked to the aisle where the crime took place, looked around to make sure no one was looking, and put it back.  I didn't have to talk to anyone, and my conscience is clear.  I call that a win.
However, a new notebook is still on my list. 


*Note.  I realize that I could have just purchased the notebook, but just in the thirty minutes that passed between the time we left the store and when I came back to bring the notebook, the lines had doubled, and the wait was not worth it.