but I am beyond confused.  And the only real explanation seems to be one that I cannot wrap my head around.  And I don't know why, because it's not out of the realm of possibility for this to happen.  My mother is a liar, this I know.  And she has stolen things from me before.  But not like this.  Not sneaking into my room when I am not home and hiding items that I need, and then sneaking back into my room and replacing them in weird places.  

I have no proof.  Not yet.  But there is no other explanation for these two things happening.  And in such a short amount of time from each other.  That says something.  That says they were both replaced at the same time and I didn't know it, or she did them both around the same period of time. 

Okay, so I lost my garage door opener YEARS ago.  I knew it was in a glasses case, so I didn't accidentally use it in my purse without knowing.  I needed something to protect it.  So, I grabbed an old hard glasses case and stuck it in there.  Then one day, the entire thing went missing.  I always kept it in my purse and I have no idea how it got lost.  And I eventually became used to just not having it and most likely will never find it.  MIND YOU, we lost this YEARS before switching bedrooms with my son.  So there was ZERO way it was in my room, as every single thing was not only gone through, but placed in my room, one item at at time.  

Then, a few years later, I lost my sunglasses.  Same thing: in a hard glasses case.  And just like that: POOF! They were gone.  I've been wondering where they've went to for years.  

Since losing the garage door opener, we switched bedrooms.  Since losing my glasses, I've cleaned out my "hoarder file cabinet", at least once, if not more than once.  My file cabinet is four drawers tall.  It blocks my door so my mother can't just peek her head in and see me.  It's filled with, from bottom to top:

Bottom Drawer: tools that I need on a regular basis, like my drill, industrial stapler, etc.

Two Middle Drawers: art books and coloring books and journals (I have far too many journals...and coloring books)

Top Drawer: random chaos (my facial moisturizer, deodorant, cotton swabs, nail polish remover, a package of Easter tea I got from Aldi we forgot to drink, etc.) and dog treats.  Also, my extra pair of glasses (in a hard case).  

I use the top drawer daily.  I get into it daily.  I rearrange it regularly.  I know pretty much where most things are in there, even though it's a mess.  So, why, when I opened it two days ago, did I see placed right on the top all the crap, was my sunglasses in its hard case?  These are prescription sunglasses, mind you.  Had they been Dollar Tree ones, like I used to have, I would not have even cared about losing them.  But I cannot wear sunglasses anymore, unless they are these.  

I immediately called my oldest son into the room and said "LOOK!!!" and pointed.  He said "What the fuck?  How on earth did they get in there??"  We ALL use this top drawer, daily.  And they were NOT there the day before.  

I am a huge glitch-in-the-matrix believer.  But this?  This did not feel like that.  This felt like a person came into my room quickly and haphazardly shoved the glasses they stole from me into my top drawer.  I half-expected my kids or hubby to say "Oh yeah, I found them (insert random place here) and put them into your drawer so you'd see them".  But nope.  Nobody had done it.  Well, nobody I asked, anyways.  

AND the issue?  Was that two days before?  That garage door opener I had lost for at least 3-4 years, I opened up my dog-walking purse (which is always EMPTY, minus the poop bags and a silicone pop-up water bowl for the dogs), and there it was.  Still in the hard glasses case I had lost it in.  

So, in two days, BOTH things came back to me, in places they certainly were not just days before.  We had gone to the park recently, and I had opened up that purse and pulled out the dog bowl from the back zipper....which was exactly the part of bag where I found the opener.  And that purse is TINY (which is why I like it--I can shove my wallet and phone into it and be on my way for walk).  So that glasses case?  Took up half of that entire area of the purse.  There is zero way I missed it....I VERY CLEARLY remember opening it, and seeing the red of the drinking bowl and the black poop bags...grabbing a poop bag and then realizing my dog carries his own poop bags on his harness and putting the bag back.  There was no glasses case in it at all.  And the case is so large, that when I picked up my purse, I immediately knew something was in it that normally wasn't, because it made the purse heavy.  

So...what the fuck is going on here?  Is my mother sneaking into my room when I am not home and taking things and then later replacing them?  

We're going to test this.  On Monday my kids and husband are going to take the dogs to the park for an hour or so.  I am going to tell my mother that we're all going and we'll be back in an hour, just in case she wonders why nobody is home.   Then, they are going to go and I am going to stay back, and sit on the couch (yes, I have a couch in my room) and wait.  If I hear her, I am going to make sure my phone camera is ready and I am going to record her coming into my room and say "Gotcha!"  OR I will hide and let her rummage around a bit, while my phone is recording her.  Then I will pop up and say "Hey, what on earth are you doing??"  

My luck she'll never do it again, and it will always be a mystery.  

But I will let you know how it goes.  And if I catch her?  I will upload the video LOL