Everybody hold onto your underwear!

I've heard about people being stolen from during the holidays at the mall...but I didn't understand the reality of it until it happened to me just yesterday!

You know when you go to the mall they have those little play place pit stops for antsy toddlers? Well, don't you just leave your stroller right near you while you watch your kids play? Usually with a bag or two there? Never thinking that it could get swiped right from under your nose? Well...be naive no more ladies! Yep...it happened to me. No recourse, no nothing. I swear I felt as if they probably could have stolen my underwear too!

Ok...after I walked the mall for 1.5 hours hoping to "find" my bag somewhere laying on the ground just waiting for me to find it (hey it could happen!) and checking with registers everywhere to see if someone "turned it in" out of the kindness of their hearts (hey it could happen!) - can you tell that I was really trying to convince myself that no one would have the nerve to steal from a mother while she watched her children play!!! However, after I was totally exhausted with my toes throbbing along with my head, I came to the realization that it was gone. I didn't drop it somewhere, I didn't leave it anywhere, I was robbed.

Then I looked into my little Benjamin's face...

Then I looked into Joshua's face......

And then Sophia's face....


And simply thanked God out loud that I was not searching for one of my babies...

Chucked up my material loss as a "donation" to someone who needed it, forgave the person who violated me and left the mall. Only to find out that I was not the only one who was robbed. Only I think they were robbed of their underwear along with their bags.