sheets......

ok, so the packing process has begun......with the downstairs guest bedroom as the staging area......a place to gather together everything that has been previously purchased for the backpacking trip or the dorm room.....an opportunity to make lists of what must be located prior to us driving off.....either thursday after work or really, really early on friday.....and there have been a few snags.....like the sheets i bought to go with the feather comforter my mother bought....i just cannot find them.....oh, i found one set of sheets......the flannel ones that i thought could be useful...for the really cold weather, and as a backup to the first set i had already purchased......except that i cannot locate said first set........and this has been quite vexing.....with so little time before we leave......i really don't want to go out and find another set, especially when we are down to our last child in a twin bed......we do have twin sheets on hand........for the youngest's bed......mostly floral and otherwise unsuitable-for-college prints......and i also cannot seem to find the sheets he used at governor's scholars last summer......where do these things go in a house with such limited storage space......it has occured to me that the sheets might be at my mom's...as in she grabbed one too many bags after shopping.....and never noticed even these many weeks later......this is possible, as my mom has, in fact, grabbed bags and when the item in question is missing, she comes up with the lost item....still in the shopping bag........my mom's housekeeping style is one of mass disarray........but i do go to some trouble to keep the chaos in my own home to a minimum.....and thus it is the more upsetting when a sweep of all closets/cubbyholes/shelves reaps no rewards.....and it is not really about the sheets..it is about the distressing reality that my memory is not what it was (sharp as a tack...)....and the fear that what it could be (a blank page) is never far from my wakeful thoughts......maybe the sheets are in the same spot as the book i couldn't find at christmas.....wouldn't that be a bonus...to find both.........