losing it

no, i am not referring to baby weight sadly.

i am talking about my life.

i NEVER lose things. my keys, wallet, purse, it just doesn't happen.

until a couple weeks ago- and i lost it all. really.

we had made a trip to costco (yeah!) and the kids had fallen asleep in the car, so c stayed in with them. i took my wallet out of the diaper bag and carried it in. i had been in there about 45 minutes when i realized i was no longer carrying it. i went frantic. i was searching everywhere. retracing my steps. trying to remember where i'd been. it was no where to be found. after 20 minutes, c finally went and checked at the front desk-hooray!-it was there. ironically, one of the workers wanted to see my ID when i was picking in up. then the manager looked at her and said, 'she is the ID'.

the next day was sunday, i was crazily trying to get all 4 kids and myself ready and be out the door by 8:30 am. we did it, we went to leave, and no keys. anywhere. they were gone. i looked everywhere. i texted c, who was already at the church, he came home and got us, we were 10 minutes late. still couldn't find them for the rest of that day.

monday we went to a local amusement park. as we were walking in, we told the kids if they ever got separated from us to go to the big ferris wheel or try to find an employee of the park. we were at a pavilion having lunch with our church. we were in line, g was sitting at a table. we got our food and sat down. i looked around for g and couldn't find him. c started looking too, still no g. after about 10 minutes and starting to get a little more worried, we decided to check the ferris wheel. we walked over and there he was sitting on the steps. when i went up to him, he just said, 'i couldn't find you, so i came here to wait'. he wasn't nervous. he did this 'getting lost' thing 2 more times during lunch. after eating lunch, and going on a few rides, one of which i went on was a roller coaster, took my glasses off and put them under my leg. lifted off the seat and lost my glasses, then we took a bathroom break. i was holding b outside the bathroom. c took j and g in with him. we were right by an arcade, k went in while i waited outside. c came out, we saw a friend from church, talked for a minute, c went into get k-only k wasn't there. he wasn't anywhere to be found. we searched for about 10 minutes. i was getting really worried. he's not the kind of kid who just walks off. he usually stays right by me. some other friends from church saw us and helped look too, still no k. it had been a good 20 minutes that we had been looking. i was starting to get really panicked. i was trying to find c (who coincidentally had misplaced his phone) to tell him i was going to check my the ferris wheel (it was a long shot, because we were really far from the ferris wheel and i didn't think K would make the trek by himself), as i was looking for c, i see two security guards walking towards me with k. i think my heart started beating again. here's what the problem was; there were 4 entrances to the arcade, k went out a different one than he came in from, he didn't see us when he came out. he went to find help. he stopped one employee of the park who wasn't helpful at all, the second one called security and they brought him back to me. we decided to leave after all the days excitement. as we got in the car, i saw my keys strapped to the seat belt with my carabiner.

joyous weekend. all that was lost was found.