I just had a scare!

[ginnie5]

Dh leaves for work by 6 and I usually get up at 7. He eats a homemade "mcmuffin" while in traffic so no need for me to do more than give him a kiss and wish him a good day. Some days though he gets in a hurry and forgets to lock the front door. I got up this morning and went to let the dogs out. Going thru the den I didn't see Grannie. I checked the doors quickly and they were both shut. Did a quick look out back (nowhere she could get to out there since its fenced) and then went to the front door. Our front door is in dire need of replacing. Its old and the bottom of it is messed up and the result is that it is HARD to open. With it being shut all the way I didn't think she could get it open. So I start checking the kids beds. They have bunks but she did wander in there yesterday and get in one of them. She's not there. So I go and start checking the other side of the sleeper sofa that she's on. She is there! She's kicked her main blanket off, has just the thin one and is curled up in the middle. How a woman as big as she is can hide in a bed is beyond me. I'm going to put it off to me being half asleep.....either that or I REALLY need to get my eyes checked! Anyway it got me moving real fast this am.

[reese]

Good gracious! I hope your day improves, if not for anything but the adrenial rush you got early on.

Reese

[Alice In TX/MO]

I understand the fear. Now that your brain chemistry is in an uproar, it may take several hours to feel completely normal again.

Big huggs,
Rose

[Up North]

A month ago that happened with my 3 year old. He just disappeared one day. We freaked out and were calling for him and looking everywhere. Family and freinds were visiting so there were a lot of people looking. The bedrooms were checked like 3 times. It got the point were I dialed 911. As the phone was ringing someone yelled out that they found him. The poor little guy was tired and went and crawled in his brothers bed under a pile of blankets. He was sound asleep.

Note to self....*lift up* all blankets or any pile of stuff when looking for child. Hope that never happens again!! I was jumpy for the rest of the day!

Heather

[ladycat]

Originally Posted by Up North

Note to self....*lift up* all blankets or any pile of stuff when looking for child. Hope that never happens again!! I was jumpy for the rest of the day!

My brother and SIL were living out in the country near a river when my neice came up missing. She was 2 or 3 at the time. They were frantically searching every where, and called the sheriff's dept, and the sheriff and some deputies came out and were searching also.

Then all of a sudden my niece came crawling out from UNDER a bed yawning. She had apparently been asleep under there all that time, and nobody had thought to look underneath beds.

[Jenn]

We haven't yet found one but DH is trying to get a key beeper/locator to put on our new (small) puppy's collar. Maybe you should attach one to Grandma? Her necklace or her pajamas?

[barnyardfun]

I gave my parents a pretty bad scare when I was about 8 or so. My dog had just had a new litter of pups under the house. It was cold outside so I decided to go under there to play with them. Once I got all snuggled up and warm with them I fell asleep I guess they had been looking for me for a LONG time before they found me under there asleep. Opps

[LynninTX]

I remember jumping up and tearing through the house looking for my then 18mo.... (now 14).... so scared when I could not find him....

he turned out to be ASLEEP on the floor, UNDER the chair I jumped out of!

We all have *moments*

[Jan Doling]

I "disappeared" when I was a pre-schooler. The sheriff's dept. was dragging the canal before I "reappeared". I was playing "jungle" with my stuffed monkey and hid under the dirty clothes in the hamper and fell asleep. The scare made my mother keep better tabs on me after that!

[mary,tx]

Right after we moved to Colorado a few years ago, I lost DD, same way. Only it was in between the boxes. The big room downstairs still had boxes stacked everywhere. She was in the middle of them asleep. Gave me quite a scare.

It really is sometimes hard to see someone snuggled in the bed. Glad you found Granny safe and sound.

mary

[tiffnzacsmom]

A couple of my cousins wandered (well they didn't but they couldn't be found) off over time and the authorities had to be called.

My aunt has girls 13 months apart and one day she thought they were too quiet and went to check on them, asked the oldest where the youngest was, "I don't Know" went looking through the house, then under the trailer, than in the trees the 3 yo could climb, the dog house. Then she called my other aunt to help look. Well the property was wooded and had at least two known cisterns. After an hour they call my uncle's company to get him off the river and sent home and the state police. Turns out they were playing hide and seek, the oldest found her sister in the toy box so for some reason she flipped the lock and was sitting on it most of the time her mom was looking.

The other cousin went missing while my uncle was stationed in Alaska. Aunt was pregnant with her second and when she laid my older cousin down for his nap she took one too. When she woke up he wasn't in his bed, she looked everywhere and couldn't find him, it was winter and dark and she couldn't find her son. They locked the base down to look for him. Turns out he was curled up under the bed hidden behind some storage boxes.