How We Lost Our Daughter - In The Middle Of The Night!

[Jeff Stanley]

My wife and I have 3 kids, ages 15, 9 and 6. The younger two are girls. This morning, I woke up around 5:45 like I always do. I work out for 30 minutes before leaving for work, so I emerged from our bedroom and walked past my 6 year old's bedroom. I peeked in and didn't see her in her bed. All the sheets were off it. That was strange because she usually gets up around 7:30, but she hadn't been feeling well, so I thought I would find her downstairs watching tv in the family room. I went downstairs...no sight of her. The other kids were still sleeping and there was no sign of her in those rooms. At this point, my wife was already in the shower. Trying not to alarm her, I explained the situation. My wife was convinced our daughter had crawled in with one of our other children in the middle of the night. When this theory proved not accurate, we started to panic a little. I had scoured the entire house by this point and we were at our wits end.

"What the hell do you do now?" I whispered loudly to my wife. She looked at me like she had an idea and started walking toward our deck door.

"There she is!" my wife exclaimed.

I hustled over to the door and saw my daughter on one of our deck chairs. It was a wide chair and she was curled up on top of the cushion. We let her sleep but my wife later gave her firm instructions never to do that again

[hangman]

Jeff, at least it wasn't aliens abducting her! lol....I bet your wife did give your daughter a tongue lashing because who needs that kind of stress first thing in the morning?

[HelpMeRonda]

We had a kid once hide out in one of our cars. That took a few hours to figure out

[Stu]

Ronda, I would have left that kid in the car until they got real hungry. He/she would have come in eventually. But I can see why you may have been pulling your hair out.

[Brett89]

I've got twins, 4 years old, and I wouldn't mind 'losing' them both some evenings when I get home. They run around the house, fight and wrestle, break everything in sight. Disaster Dan, I call them both

[RageMachine]

Brett89, I grew up in a house of 4 boys, I was the second oldest. My mother was a saint putting up with all the crap we created. We lit everything but the house and cars on fire, anything we can find, broke countless windows with baseballs and our backyard was a grassless, muddy pit, with years of horrible football being played on it. Enjoy every minute with your twins 'cause it flies by, but I'm sure you know that

[SuzieQ]

Our daughter five years ago hid herself in a tree fort for most of the day when she was five and we didn't know she could get up to the part of the tree where the fort was. We looked for her for probably two hours before her older brother found her. That drove us psycho

[Twisted Sister]

25 years ago, when I was a kid on a bike riding all over town, neither I nor my parents, thought it was a big deal. But these days, the farthest kids go on their bikes is maybe one or two blocks. The world is just too scary otherwise. I was paperboy, for pete's sake.

[Greg Yun]

We had a 12 year old get kidnapped 20 years ago while delivering newspapers in our town. That spooked everybody and I could tell that parents wouldn't let kids go beyond 200 yards of their house for a few years because of that