I hided it!

I have an iPad.  One of the originals.  We have had it almost three years and I am the one who claims it.  (We are a fairly techy family and when I say we, I mean Matt.  There are multiple tablet-type devices in our house, but the kids are only occasionally allowed to use them.  Matt and I use them most of the time.)  It comes in handy since our computer is up in the loft by the bedrooms and I spend 90% of my day in the kitchen/family room/laundry area downstairs.  

Wednesday night of last week, I was in charge of a YW activity at church.  I only plan the Personal Progress activities, so it is not something I do very often.  This was going to be my first one and as I was rushing around the house trying to finish making dinner and gather everything I needed for the activity (so I could leave right when Matt got home from work to set up), I realized I didn't have the full recipe I needed for dinner.  I grabbed the trusty iPad and looked up the recipe, found the info I was looking for and then quickly tucked it under the couch.  The iPad usually resides on my nightstand, but if I have it out in the family room, I tuck it out of sight under the couch, so it doesn't get knocked off the counter or something.  I finished up dinner and then raced out the door. 

Later that night I got home and after the kids were all in bed I reached for the iPad because I had a few emails to send about some of the things we needed to do about Personal Progress.  I reached under the couch and was surprised that it wasn't there.  I got down on my hands and knees and peered underneath and couldn't see anything.  I looked on my nightstand and it wasn't there either.  Since those are about the only two places I ever leave it, I was baffled.  I asked Matt if he had let the kids use the iPad to play a game while I was gone and he said he had not seen it.  I looked around for a minute, but I had been a little frazzled as I left earlier, so I figured I must have just stuck it somewhere unusual and I would look for it in the morning. 

Matt can not stand when something is lost.  It doesn't matter what it is, it drives him CRAZY until it is found.  He grabbed a flashlight and starting looking around as  I got ready for bed.  I had actually gotten into bed and started to relax when I realized that Matt was still searching full steam.  I realized he was never going to come to bed until it was found and so I got up to help.  I told him to keep looking in the bedroom and I went out to the family room.  I stood there for a minute thinking hard.  I decided that I really had put it under the couch and that one of the kids (ahem, Sydney) must have taken it.  She really likes to hide things right now.  Legos, Matt's blue tooth headset, shoes, my purse.  Eeek. 

I looked around the room trying to think what she could reach and where she could have put it without anyone really noticing.  My eyes went to the blinds.  I walked over and pulled the blinds away from the window and there was the iPad sitting on the window sill. 

Matt was greatly relieved and we went to sleep. 

The next morning, I asked Sydney if she knew where the I iPad was.  She said, "I hided it!"  She walked right to blinds and pulled them out and yelled, "It's gone!"  She is a character.  We talked about taking stuff and hiding it and why that is not nice.  She didn't quite get it.  I should probably keep it up high from now on.