Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network
Most new parents know all about toddler-proofing their home – but no matter how prepared you are, mistakes can always happen.
Ben and Jackee Belnap had to learn this the hard way after their 2-year-old son Leo found an envelope filled with cash that was laying on the kitchen counter of their home in Holladay, Utah.
The Belnaps have been saving up money for the last year to pay Ben’s parents back for University of Utah football season tickets. Originally, the couple had kept the cash locked away in a filing cabinet – but once they had squirreled away $1,060, they placed the cash in an envelope and set it on the counter so they would remember to deliver it to Ben’s parents.
Then one day over the weekend, the Belnaps were confused to find that the envelope had disappeared. They looked all over their house, even in the trash.
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Finally, Jackee thought to look in their paper shredder.
“I’m digging through the trash and she hollers and says, ‘I found it,’” Ben told KSL-TV. “She’s holding the shredder and she says, ‘I think the money is in here.’”
Jackee goes on to say that Leo loves to help them use the paper shredder, whether it is for junk mail or important documents that need to be destroyed. So when he saw the envelope on the counter, he happily took it upon himself to help out his…
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