Or at least that’s what my kids must want me to think. Yesterday, since we were planning on going to Temple Square, I KNEW I was going to want my camera. So while the kids were at their primary activity I started looking for it. I couldn’t find it. So I had to look at my computer and see what the last picture I copied over was. Ok it was the rice stuffing, which means the last time I used it was the other day when I posted the picture of the rice stuffing to the food blog. WHICH MEANS that the camera should still be right here on my dresser, since that is where I was sitting when I had it last. I searched, my dresser and both desks in my room over and over. Ok I admit my house is quite messy, well actually the main part of the house is looking better but my room is still a disaster! I looked behind the picture frames on my dresser and I looked down behind my dresser and under my dresser. I looked under my bed in case it had somehow fallen and got kicked under there. I was starting to wonder if I had left it on my dresser or if I had taken it away from one of the kids and put it somewhere up high. I really could not remember what I did with it. I didn’t want to blame the kids if I just hid it really well, but after looking everywhere that I would normally have stashed it I still couldn’t find it and I just had to wonder. When the kids got back from their activity, we started asking them about it. Nobody seemed to know anything about it. Then later Ethan said that he had seen Dinah with it and took it away from her and put it under the couch. So each of the couches got lifted and then the kids bedrooms were searched. Still couldn’t find it, and when we asked Ethan WHEN he saw Dinah with it, he said back in November. Uh ok that was useless. Eventually I got mad and said we weren’t going to the temple without the camera. Amazingly it turned up very shortly after that. It was tucked down between the cushions of the couch.
This morning as we were getting ready to leave for church, I went to grab my little hand held computer. I always take it to church with me so I can jot down any announcements that I haven’t received an email for, and so that if I sign up for something I can make a note of it. When I went to my dresser, it wasn’t there. So I thought that maybe I had taken it out to the kitchen and set it down out there when I fed the kids. But it wasn’t there either. I was walking all over the house looking in the usual places that I would have set it down. I saw it this morning which means it would be on TOP of the rest of the mess right?! Well I wasn’t finding it, and I was getting really frustrated. Of course this made me feel like I was again, losing my mind, since I THOUGHT it was on the dresser and now it’s nowhere! I went out to the van where the kids were all loaded up waiting. And I asked them if any of them had seen it this morning. They all looked at me like I was crazy and said that they hadn’t seen it. I looked at each of their faces, and as soon as my eyes met Dinah’s I KNEW where my little computer was! As I looked at her I knew that if I ran in the house I would find it under my bed. I had gone down the hall earlier this morning to find out why Dinah ‘disappeared’ and I found her crouching on the floor on my side of the bed. She quickly bounced up and came out of my room with me. At that point I had no idea what she was getting into, but I didn’t see any sort of a mess so I figured she was just playing hide and seek with me, but when I looked into her eyes later when asking where my computer was I instantly knew that that’s what she had been messing with!
Ok so maybe, my children just like playing tricks on me to get me to THINK I’m going crazy, but really I’m not crazy yet! 🙂