We also found a present that had been dropped on the sidewalk outside the bathroom.  The only presents that were missing were homemade, and worthless to anyone other than our family as I recall.

          All of the stolen gifts were from Sharon, who had come over earlier in the week to drop them off.  She had made all home-made gifts that year.  She told us that she had spent months making slippers, pillow cases and other things and monogrammed each one with our initials.  Sharon said she would probably never go to all that work again.

            So far, there had been only one gift (other than Sharon’s) put under the tree. That was the one that was dropped. I seem to recall that it was a leather-covered key-chain for Dad.
    As frightening as it was to be burglarized, we all had a good chuckle over the worthlessness of the burglar’s “take”