It's funny, the little things that turn up missing in our house. With three small toddlers, we actually work pretty hard to keep most things out of the hands of little people around here. We have child safety knobs and locks on just about everything you can think of, for that once or twice daily occurrence of needing to run upstairs for a moment while all of the kids are allowed to roam free on the first floor.
This week, it was lip balm. And Mommy is a Chapstick junkie, so I practically tore the first floor apart looking for it. I keep a separate tube just about everywhere - in every bath room in our house, in my purse, in my truck, in the desk in the office, in the desk in the kitchen, and well, you get the idea. There is strawberry flavored Chapstick just about everywhere in our house. And now, there's one in an undisclosed location. You see, my oldest son also shares my love of Chapstick. He's long been sneaking it out of the bathroom drawer after potty sessions (yes, even with the child-safety lock, he can reach his little hand in and get it). Well, he's also advanced to pulling a dining room table chair or other height-enhancing object over to the kitchen desk and taking the one that USED to sit on the tray on the desk. This one is now MIA. And it's already been replaced, though placed in a higher, less visible area and unknown to my oldest son, at least for the moment.
It will probably show up eventually, inside some random toy or even a cabinet we rarely use. Or not. Perhaps it's joined the long-lost books, trailer hitches to the John Deere tractor toys, the first Thomas train, and other items our children have mysteriously "misplaced" in their relatively confined lives.
