Only once has Edwina allowed me to know of her door closing ability and that was to teach me a lesson....

She had joined us in April of that year. I took August and September off work and spent alot of time with her. I went back to work at the end of September.

My husband's older son was living with us.

My first day at work I returned home and could find Edwina NO WHERE. I checked the entire house -- all of her favorite hiding place. I was frantic. Son #1 was there -- helping me in the search. Over and over I asked him...are you SURE she didn't sneak out of the house????? We seached outside.

Finally we were going through every closet in the house (one thing I loved about that house was the number of closets!)

There she was in a basement closet behind the safe. She had opened AND CLOSED the folding door to the closet. I still remember just her eyes glowing from the dark!

For about a week she wouldn't acknowledge me. How dare I leave her like that!