Well, after feeling like a bit of a football widow during the boys’ football season, Hubby and I are trying to get in the routine of having date night again.  Nothing too fancy.  It’s actually pretty much just running errands together, but it gives us time to talk.  And I love getting to have him all to myself hanging out together. 

So anyway, we are so thankful that we don’t have to pay a sitter anymore and can just leave the boys home together.  They know all of the safety rules and can dial our cell phone number with lightning speed.  However, the other night, something happened for the first time - the boys LOCKED us out.  AAAAHHHHH!!!!

It was so cold and all of the animals greeted us as we arrived home.  The horses came up to the fence to see what we had gotten for them.  Hank (yes he’s still here) greeted me at the car door, we could even see George the Cat and Faith in the house.  Husband unlocked the door, but the chain lock was on. 

Soooo we hated to wake the poor kids up, but we started ringing the doorbell and knocking.  Kind of gently at first because we didn’t want to scare them or anything. 

We tried going to the other doors and even gently tapping on their bedroom windows.  After that didn’t work, we resorted to banging on the doors and windows… still no answer. 

Now we knew that our boys were sound sleepers, but we didn’t have any idea that they could sleep through that kind of racket. 

I was even starting to have that little bit of panic, “They are in there, aren’t they?” 

We couldn’t call them because we don’t get a cell phone signal at our house so…. we had to break in.  Hubby (my hero) got the bolt cutters and cut through the chain so that we could get in our back door.  Can you believe it?  Those wonderful children had locked us out!!! How rude!!!  And after we even brought them home some pretzels!! Hmpf!

But they were all sleeping safe and soundly… and …. I had a nice date night with my husband, so it was all worth it, even though we’ll have to replace our chain lock.  Now we just have to come up with a system so that we can get into our house without breaking in on those date nights!