I lost my wedding ring last week. The worst. I had taken if off to knead some bread dough (which turned out very mediocre I am sad to say) and I put it on the base of the kitchen-aid stand. A random place for sure but I knew where it was and since there was 0% chance someone besides me would clean up the kitchen in anyway shape or form, I figured it was a safe place.
I remembered that very safe place the next morning but when I went to get my ring, it was gone. It was nowhere. Not on the base, not on the counter. Not even behind the fridge ( I know because I checked...and then vacuumed back there because...gross)
I was 100% certain that I had put it on the kitchen-aid but after asking (interrogating) everyone else about it, it seemed that no one had touched it and I must have remembered wrong. I didn't really believe that, but decided to look EVERYWHERE while assuming that it was very likely that someone had absentmindedly picked it up and moved it somewhere else without even realizing it. So I checked everywhere. It wasn't on my nightstand. It was't in my car. It wasn't under my bed. It wasn't on my bathroom counter, tub ledge, or jewelry jar.
Other places it was not:
kitchen garbage sack #1
kitchen garbage sack #2 (much messier than sack #1)
recycling bin
pile of random papers on my desk
game drawer
dog bed
dog bowls
dishwasher
garbage disposal
behind the washer and dryer
in the washing machine
lint catcher in the dryer
bottom of laundry basket
every pocket of everything I'd worn that week
under that couch
on top of the alexa (sometimes I put it there...)
behind the computer
on the piano
It wasn't anywhere. I started to panic when 2 days went by and my frantic searching, prayers, and $50 reward offer didn't produce any results.
Later...
My sister Kate's 3 adorable kids spent the night on Saturday. They were teasing Grant who was hiding under a blanket on the couch. I came to help them in their teasing and being the good mom that I am, sat on Grant... which put me at the perfect angle to see something shiny and sparkly tucked between the sections of the wicker basket on our coffee table.
FOUND IT!!!!
I screamed out loud and literally jumped up and down with joy!
I LOVE this ring and all it represents.
Two 20-something aged babies who fell in love, made promises to each other and God and through college and law school, and moves across the country, and babies, and careers, and more babies (sometimes two at a time) and happy times and hard times and all the times in between...this ring encompasses all of that for me. I am really NOT a sentimental person...especially about physical things, but my wedding ring is definitely the exception.
p.s. someone definitely moved my ring.
I will for sure never find out who. Just as I will for sure never leave it out again ;)
