COVID-19

COVID-19 just became a thing.  We’ve decided to keep the girls home for now until things calm down.  Jimmy is at work doing something and I’m on a phone call downstairs for work. I have everything locked up upstairs so the girls can’t get out while I’m on this phone call.  They’re starting to get a little loud downstairs, so I shut the door to the spare bedroom where I am working.  I finally get off the call, and… I’m locked in!  We have a child proof lock on the other side Payton has slid it over, so I can’t get out!  I hear them yelling and screaming and hitting each other on the other side. I’m trying to get their attention; but they’re in full on fight mode… they aren’t paying attention.   So I call Jimmy, “How the _______ do I get this screen out without busting it?”  I get it out.  Now I’m outside realizing that I’ve locked the house up tight with the eye hooks hooked on the inside.  I can’t get in.  My car is locked, so I can’t open the garage, not that that’d do me any good since the door to the inside has an eye hook on the inside.  I’m know the eye hooks aren’t that strong.  I’m an adult.  I could bust it… couldn’t I?  That’s a last resort.  I go back to the back yard and crawl back through the window and call Jimmy.   Now I’ve got Jimmy on his way home from work.  Now after we hang up, I am sitting there talking with the girls through the door; and I get Payton to undo the child lock.  I call Jimmy, “I’m out!”  Thank goodness because he was going to have to go back to work after coming home.  I didn’t know this at the time; but his only plan was to break an eye hook or break the child safety lock. 

So you would think I learned my lesson right… nope, the next day I forget to take the child safety lock off and we repeat the whole process again.  I am on a phone call again.  This time I do not do the eye hooks just in case I get locked in.  Yep sure enough I did.  I called my neighbor, and she came over and let me out.  Thank goodness for them being flexible!  They save us every time Payton gets out by having a trampoline and now they’re saving me from being trapped in my own house.  I should probably drop off a bottle of wine or something.  Needless to say, that stupid child lock is now off that door.