circles of hell.......

ok, so i am convinced that one of the many circles of hell, as predicted by those who contemplate these things.....involves looking for your children's passports........our eldest child is going to ireland....and in my obsessive-compulsion about travel....i have badgered him daily to find his passport to check on its expiration date.....and when that line of reasoning met with fulitily...i moved on to scenario 2......finding the passport of child #2....and pinpointing that expiration date.....surely obtained the same year for the same trip.........and this child announced that he did not have his passport.....and thus began the pulling apart and dumping out and overturning of every storage bin/basket/folder i could find....to no avail......until it occured to me that he had used it on a trip without my presense....to belgium on the rotary exchange.....and that he must have this passport in his possession.....whereupon he produced the blue document within moments........and the passport does not expire until october 2006.....and so his brother's passport, though not yet found....is valid...........now......all he need do is to locate it before july..............but since he is in lexington and i am here ate home.....he is spared the overturning of all of his receptacles.....at least for now...............