I Lost M today

We lost M today for a little while.

Unfortunately, this is not the first time I have lost a child. Nor is it the second, or third. But I digress.

Thankfully, we were in the house when it happened this time so I didn't start to get nervous until we had searched the house top to bottom - more than once. Then we really started to get serious. We checked all of her usual hiding places - closets, behind dressers, in the tiniest corners...honestly, the child deserves a medal for her hiding abilities. Then I checked my closet again and I heard the slightest snoring sound. She had burrowed herself way back into H's uniforms, curled into a ball under some shirts she had knocked down, and fallen asleep...naked. She was supposed to be getting into the bath when she went missing, hence the birthday suit. We never would have found her except for the snoring. The first few times through, we were calling for her and making all kinds of noise so we didn't hear it. How she slept through our racket is a mystery.

I went to find my camera to video tape it and while I was looking (it too seems to be lost right now) she woke up and came staggering out. I think her legs were asleep.