March 3, 2010

Missing Child

So this morning I was sleeping and my husband came down and woke me up asking if I knew where my six year old Jerika was. He had gone in to get her up from her bed and she was not there. I told him to check the rest of the beds, he said he already did and went upstairs to search more. I got up and looked everywhere downstairs for her. In closets, in rooms, under blankets. But no Jerika.

I got upstairs and my husband is saying he has checked everywhere, even under her bed. So I look at the locks to see if she went outdoors, they are locked and dead bolted.

We are trying to be quiet because the rest of the kids are sleeping, but I am ready to start yelling for her. But we go in each kids room quietly and look for her. We are unable to find her.

So then I am thinking, when should I call the police, probably after I start yelling her name and there is no answer. So I head back downstairs to look again, as I go, I hear Joe talking to Jerika, asking where she was.
She has come out of her sisters room, We looked there?!? We ask where she was and she says that she was under the bunk bed. We asked her why she was there?

"I dont know", she says, "probably sleep walking."

Crazy huh.
This kid sleep walking and hiding is going to drive me crazy too.

6 people feeding my addiction to comments:

Kristina P. said...

So scary! Glad she was right there.

SBrooks said...

Wow! Scary! Glad she was found! I could feel the heart palpitations as a mother as you were telling the story!

heidi_broncos said...

Oh my gosh - considering recent events in my own home, I can TOTALLY relate to the sheer and utter panic!! I'm glad she was safe and sound!!

Dana Wartena Thelin said...

What a great story to tell. She could tell is at school in Show and Tell. Glad is did not sleepwalk outside and wakeup under a tree in the park. She would have been so upset with herself. In this case, it sounds like she was kind of proud of her sleepwalking adventure. Two yr old Baby James got lost once and we search the entire house and the whole neighborhood, no luck. Finally after 7 yr old Josh and I had a prayer aboaut a block away from the house and I said now wait for an answer to our prayer...it will come into your head. Just listen! We both listened, and I knew that he was ustairs on the deck under the bed that was on the deck at that time. We ran home and found him asleep underneath the bed there. Another faith promoting Jerika-like story eh? I wonder if Josh still remembers that day. James doesn't, cause he was asleep!

Jensen Family :) said...

Oh my goodness, that is so funny and scary! Love ya!

Kristina P. said...

Tiffany, you make me laugh.

Mario DOES NOT have a good personality!! He has cheated on every women he was with, including his fiance, with a bachelor party stripper, and she got the marriage annulled the next day!!

You can have his smarmy dimples!!

Love you too! :)