Aargh.
When I drove home with my toddler daughter last night after we'd had dinner out, she fell asleep in the car, and after my SO and I transferred her into bed, I forgot or maybe was just too tired to make myself go back outside and make sure my car was locked. Well, overnight, someone went into my car, then unlocked the trunk and took my backpack full of student papers and my gradebook and calendar.
Fortunately, the grades in the gradebook are almost all recorded in an online gradebook, and many of the papers are stored online too.
I didn't let it ruin my Thanksgiving, but I'm just so mad at myself about it. I have sometimes been cavalier lately about locking my car, mainly, I guess, because I rarely leave anything worth stealing in there - 99% of the time I bring my backpack in, not because it has anything valuable in it (to anyone but me) but because I know it looks like it does.
I know I just have to let this go, but I'm having so much trouble not beating myself up over it. Any words of wisdom any of you could share would be appreciated.