Too Many Hiding Places

I hide things I don't want the boys to have, or things I don't want to disappear too soon. For instance, I will buy juice packs and snack-size packets of pretzels or crackers or chips for their snacks when I go grocery shopping and unless I hide it away and pack their bags each day for school, it would all be gone by mid-week. Once in a while, I will buy potato chips, but Christopher will consume an entire bag in one sitting, so to curb this craving, when I do buy them, I will hide them in a cabinet or closet. Except the boys have gotten really good at finding my hiding places.

I have hidden chocolate on top of the kitchen cabinets, but that great location was discovered last week. I have all but stopped buying the two 1-liter bottles of Sprite or Diet Coke I get for me and G because the boys go through them before I even have a desire to have a glass for myself. Now I hear more often than not that there is nothing good to drink in the house. Heh.

Using clothing in my drawers to hide things is no longer secure, even hiding scissors. Leaving my purse unattended, or wallet filled with even a few dollar bills something I no longer do because the money will surely disappear, or the scissors are found and used to cut up my license.

Lately I have had to hide more valuable things like my digital camera, camcorder or iPod because my oldest child has threatened to destroy them in any one of his random fits of rage. I'm usually good at recalling where I put them, but not always. I have had to come up with some very creative hiding spaces, and it has reached the point where they are hidden so well that I can't even remember where I put them. My iPod is currently MIA, but I know it will eventually show up. It will be found accidentally when I'm looking for something else, or looking to hide something else.

As for the money, I found it is really easy to hide in the back of picture frames, or behind a heavy antique mirror I have hanging in my bedroom. God help me if these are discovered because short of digging a hole in the back yard, there are not too many clever places left.

I sure wish I had my iPod right now.