Hi all
So keeping this as brief but detailed as possible.
In my teenage years I shoplifted - not a proud moment but I did it with the crowd.
My mum and sister are tight knit, sister still lives at home and has said in the past they talk about 'my ways'. One reference to my children and how I put my foot down with telling her not to give them sweets at 9am. My mum says "well I will and not tell you" and then it causes an argument to then my mum saying "I'm just winding you up" My sister laughs along saying how my mum can't say no to her grandchildren
So basically they come as a pair.
My mum got some earrings for her birthday. People who came to see her looked at them and I was the last person to see them and say how nice they were - can't really remember them properly but I remember looking at them. Anyway we were out and DD1 was kicking off and my mum rang me to ask if I'd seen them or knew where they were. I said no and asked why? She said they had gone missing and I was the last person to see them. Maybe it's be being paranoid but I took that as a indirect way of saying have you taken them. I told her to check her drawers, jewellery box etc and she said she couldn't remember what they looked like, were they red? I told her I couldn't remember but I had to go, DD1 is kicking off still and hubby is stressing I will ring her back. She put the phone down on me. 20 minutes later, tantrum over, I rang her back and then said ok what's happened and she explained calmly. I was giving her suggestions where they could be, piecing the day together with her and then in the end told her they've got to turn up. She's checked in the big wheelie bins and everything. She put the phone down saying bye this time, but agitated. The next time I went round the house I said let me check down the sofas for you and underneath, it's a long shot but the kids could have got hold of them and put them there for some reason - 5 year old and 3 year old twins. Who knows why they do things! She snapped that she has re bought them back. I said well keep the receipt and then when the others turn up you can take them back.
What gets me is the 'looks' my mum and sister give each other. Just to test them I said "I can't wait to see where they turn up after all this" and they look at each other wide eyed in shock like they couldn't believe I have the balls to say such a thing. I know and can feel they've had a conversation about me 'being the last ones to see them' For the record on my children's lives I haven't taken them and the sooner they turn up the fucking better. Im going to be the smuggest person
The fact they both could think that though has got me. I would love to say to her "if I did take them what would I do with them?" I can't wear them as she'd see them on photos etc and I cba on night out to remember to cover my ears of stolen earrings in a picture to hide from my mum or sister!! Who would do that? I don't need earrings, I have a million pairs and have just handmade my own.
Hubby just says they will turn up and I know I have done nothing wrong but how would others feel? Am I being too sensitive?