I’m a SAHM, DH works fulltime. No family around where we live so we ask a professional babysitter for a few hours now and then so I have a bit of time to myself during the week. Today she came to our home again for a few hours, I came home a bit earlier so I could rest a bit whilst she looked after DS who is 2 years old and can’t really speak yet. She’s a lovely young woman, seems genuinely fond of DS and I never had any complaints about her.
Before I went home today I had done some shopping, some bread, wine, a bag of dried fruits for myself and some special chocolates for our babysitter as a small thank you gift because I know she likes them and I know looking after DS is hard work. At home I put away the shopping, gave her the chocolates (which she put in her bag) and went upstairs for a lay down and went back downstairs a few minutes
before the scheduled timing for her to look after DS ended. We chatted a bit and she went home.
Later I wanted to eat some of the dried fruits that I had bought but the bag is nowhere to be found. I know exactly where I had put them in the kitchen, but checked everywhere and can’t find them. I even checked DS’ toy baskets to make sure he didn’t take them and put them there, but, nothing.
I am starting to wonder if it’s really paranoid of me to think that the babysitter might have took it. It’s such a random thing to steal!
I don’t really care about the dried fruit itself, it costs just a few pounds and I would have given her the bag plus a few bits more without a second thought if she had told she was in need of groceries but couldn’t afford them. Since I can’t prove anything and it’s just such a small thing I won’t say anything and I’m really starting to wonder if I’m being too suspicious. I don’t want to lose a good babysitter.