Where did it go?

Both Luke and our baby girl are obsessed with our laptop.  Because of this I usually wait until they are sleeping to do anything online.  But, sometimes I’m too impatient and want to write some e-mails and things….so why wait…right?  So  when that happens, I often set myself at the kitchen table where it is harder for the kids to reach, especially Luke.  Other times I usually wind up sitting on the couch and put the laptop at an angle on the arm and try to keep it out of Luke and baby girl’s reach.

Well this morning, baby girl was occupied watching Nick Jr and I wanted to write a couple e-mails to some of Luke’s doctors.  So there I was writing away.  Everything was going well.  Our baby girl didn’t even notice what I was doing.  Then right when I was reading some e-mails…an e-mail showed up from the doctor I just wrote out in Baltimore.  So I go to read it….and I guess the good news was that I actually finished reading it before she did this…but I just got done reading the e-mail when our baby girl reaches over and pushes several buttons toward the top of the laptop. 

All of a sudden the e-mail from the doctor was gone!!  I thought she just deleted it and it was in the “trash” folder.  But…. oh…that would be too easy.  I looked in the “trash”, “spam”, “sent” and even the “drafts”.  Surely it would be somewhere like that right?

Then I keep looking…because it was like it vanished into thin air.  I wouldn’t normally worry, but it was an e-mail that contained some instructions…and I kept thinking…did it really say what I thought it said?  You know…that kind of thing. 

So I’m looking all over my yahoo mail trying to find this e-mail.  Finally I thought…”I wonder if she put it in one of my personal folders…like ‘family’ or ‘church’”  I never really use these any more…but I used to sort my important e-mails out in several folders. 

I then went through all the folders and finally when I looked in my “Germany” folder…which I used 4 years ago for my trip to Germany with my mom to visit my sister who was called up and serving there.  At the top of all these old e-mails was my “missing” doctor e-mail. 

I found it!!  I have no idea how it got there….or what buttons our baby girl pushed.  I’ll have to be even more careful from now on!!