Well, I was so glad last week was over when the weekend came. It was sad to see my mom go on Sat. night but she couldn't stay forever.
I was having a pretty ok weekend, had a good breakfast with my cousin and a great shopping trip to Target and then the fun ended later on at home. My lovely Samantha decided it would be really cool to lock the sliding glass door while I was out BBQing our dinner. This is how it went:
She wakes from her nap and I give her some attention and then mommy's gotta prepare dinner. We were having barbecued short ribs (they looked SO good at the store) and some mac n cheese. So I decide to multi-task and put the mac noodles on to boil. I cover the ribs in sauce and let them sit for a bit then the coals are ready, so I go out to put the meat on the grill....
I turn around to go back in and there's lovely Sam looking at me through the glass door. Yeah, not only looking at me, but pulling down the lock on the closed door. She just learned this trick so she doesn't know how to UN-lock yet.
I try to get her to unlock it by pushing up on the lock thingy. Yeah, she's not interested in that. She goes to play. ALL of my other doors and windows are locked up tight. It's been like 100 degrees where I live so the AC is blasting and everything else is closed.
I don't know what to do. No phone, not even shoes on! My step son is gone already w/ a friend of his overnight. I go to one neighbor--no answer. I run to the neighbor next door--his elderly mom is there and has no phone. I go to the other next door neighbor and ask him to call me a locksmith. He comes over w/ a phone book & his cell phone. 1st company I call tells me to call the cops. I call another, they say they'll page the locksmith (incidentally, the locksmith there STILL hasn't called and it's Monday!). After waiting for what it seems like forever (Sam is now at the dining room table climbing up on a chair and coloring w/ her markers) my neighbor asks if I have AAA. I say yeah, but do they unlock house doors? He says no, they can let you into your car & you can do the garage. YES!!!!
I call AAA and they're sending someone out from like 10 miles away. 10 miles doesn't seem too long but in my area w/ traffic, it's forever. Especially when your 21 month old is wreaking havoc around the house and you're left outside to look in at her.
Anyway, I tell AAA to have the guy honk since I am out back sorta babysitting my baby. I thought I heard the doorbell ring. Thought--that's kinda lame but I'll look anyway. No tow truck driver but I notice we have a dog door on the garage side door. We never ever use this and it came w/ the house so never thought twice about it.
I go to the 1st neighbor again and ring the bell. Lucky for me it's his skinniest kid answering the door. I ask if he thinks he can fit through the dog door (med. size dog door). He tries and GETS IN. He unlocks the deadbolt on the side door and again I can get into my house! My daughter is up on top of the kitchen table now.
Remember the mac noodles I was boiling? yeah, can you say BURNT to a crisp? My whole house was full of nasty smelling smoke. Samantha was unaffected it seemed. She was just happy to be on top of the kitchen table which mommy never lets her do for safety reasons of course.
Remember the ribs I had put on the grill that looked sooooo good? Yeah, those were little black hockey pucks by the time I was in. The dog ate them. He was happy.
We went out to eat at the Italian restaurant near us. We only have like 2 choices and I had already been to IHOP for breakfast. Didn't wanna go for both of my meals there yesterday. The guitar player at the Italian place was really nice to Sam, it was cute.
My house STILL smells like burnt food. NASTY! I put carpet fresh on the carpets and that only alleviated a bit of the smell. I got to go to work so I can't be home all day airing the place out you know? Oh well.
Note to self: Keep a damn key outside somewhere. If you're reading this and you have an active small child, you'd BETTER learn from this and keep a key nearby outside or w/ a neighbor or relative. It is somewhat funny, but in reality it was extrememly stressful. I am lucky Sam didn't get hurt or anything. I was planning for the worst looking in at her. I had decided if I had to, I'd have broken my bathroom window since she wouldn't get hurt by flying glass there and it's cheaper than trying to fix a big ass sliding glass door.
At least it didn't cost me anything to get into the house. I need to reward the neighbor kid huh? :)
