Lost and Found

I apologize for a lack of a post last week. Work was busy, we went to South Carolina and I started my first Master’s class (getting my learn on!). And this week’s will be brief. I promise to do better once I get this whole homework thing under control.
Onto the blog!!

My question is this: How do you lose your winter coat? Given the fact that you only own two coats (that you wear on a regular basis) and you have an ‘out and about’ radius of three places: home, daycare, the bookstore.
Sure it has been unusually balmy here but I can’t imagine how you lose your coat. Clearly if he had it on, it was needed. And I am nothing if not diligent about having him properly clothed for the outside temperature.

The Mud Puddle was not at all concerned about the missing coat. I, as you can imagine, was flipping out. Because of course we didn’t notice it missing until we actually needed it.
So that morning I had to bundle him up in a jean jacket/fleece combo and put on his usual mittens and hat. He looked like a hick of the highest order.
I then promptly trucked my cookies to Target and bought a new winter coat (at half the cost of the original dontcha know.).

My conventional wisdom was that as soon as I procured the second coat, the first one would show up. No such luck. I have searched the house top to bottom three times and no coat. The Mud Puddle (even with the promise of a pink frosted cookie) could not be bothered to look. Which makes me wonder if he got rid of the coat somehow. I would have no idea why he would but then I have given up trying to apply reason and logic to the actions of a four year old.

The real kicker (or ‘wicked pisser’ if you are from Boston) to all of this? I had made a point to attach his mittens to the coat so he wouldn’t lose the mittens (He lost seven mittens last year at daycare – that would be fourteen pairs of mittens) and so the mittens are lost with the coat. Nice.