The Lovey Blog

I'm happy to announce that LostMyLovey.com is finally live and ready to go! I hope LostMyLovey will become a resource for helping other moms retrieve their children's lost toys (or maybe never lose them in the first place).

I know first hand the cold panic I felt every time I was digging through the stroller and couldn't find "the bunny", who unbeknownst to me, was lying on the floor of Einstein's Bagels. I walked every aisle of the grocery store next door, getting more and more worried all the time, and finally went to the customer service desk and drew a picture of it for them to hang in the office. It never occurred to me it was in the bagel shop. I got the kids all packed in the car, tears streaming (mine too), and it hit me to go back in there and ask. So I unpacked everyone, went back in, and this nice guy behind the counter held up the bunny - "is this yours!?" I have never been so happy in my life.

Events like this kept happening over and over. Then, and years later, I kept thinking, I know other moms are going through this. Kids drop stuff all the time. I am always hearing stories from moms whose children have a special thing they can't part with, and then tragically lose it somewhere.

Then about a year ago, I was flying home from a trip and my kids had their special loveys with them in their backpacks. While we were in the airport, they kept wanting to take them out and hug them and I was like, "no! no!" because I could just envision us leaving it on the seat in the effort to line up for the plane. This was after about 5 years of repeatedly losing these toys in every restaurant, Starbucks, grocery store, park, and everywhere else you could imagine. And we had gotten this far, I was not about to lose these toys now.

Then the idea for LostMyLovey just hit me, and I couldn't stop thinking about it. Since I'm a website designer anyway, I was able to think through the site structure and how it could work, and it just started rolling. And here we are!

I know that every mom I have talked to about the site has told me a similar story about their child's lovey, and how they wished this site and the ID tags had been around to help them. I was just talking to another mom about it a few weeks ago, and she told me that her child's lovey had been swept up in the bedsheets by the maid at a hotel, and they were never able to find it. And a dad said to me that when his son lost his favorite penguin toy, he would have given $1000 to get it back. If he had only had the LostMyLovey ID Tag, he might have gotten it back for a lot less!

I think there is a need for this service, and I hope it will help other moms avoid some of the pain and upset that I went through. I have to make sure I am keeping track of the kids, and my purse, and the car keys, and everything else. Wouldn't it be nice to have one less thing to worry about? I hope you enjoy this site, and that it is helpful to you. I look forward to hearing your feedback, comments, concerns and questions about the site, or the tags, or anything else.

I wish all of you the best of luck in keeping your precious loveys safe.