Things Are Looking Up, People!

I've been feeling a little better the last couple days. On Tuesday I locked my keys in my car 20 minutes before I needed to leave to pick the girls up from school. Things are looking up, people, I didn't cry!  Luckily I left one of the sliding glass doors unlocked so I wasn't locked out of the house too. Once I got inside I knew that actually finding the spare key would take some sort of miracle because in spite of constant work on my house since we arrived in July, there are still a few boxes that aren't unpacked. Like the box that was my junk drawer and housed my spare key. I know it's in the garage somewhere, but if you saw my garage loaded with boxes (man, I miss basements) and could experience the stifling temperature, you would understand that I didn't have a chance. On a side not, ya know the smell of wet cardboard? Like when you've got a box you leave outside in the trash pile and it rains. That's what my garage smells like. All the boxes combined with 99%humidity makes the smell almost unbearable. Anyway, what could have been a major disaster, turned out just fine. Fortunately I got a couple of the mom's phone numbers earlier this year and one of them was able to pick me up to go get the kids.

It may have already occurred to you that not only were my keys locked in the car but so were the car seats. Awesome. I am a car seat Nazi. Last year my parents decided to take my kids on a joy ride of sorts without car seats and I lost it. Lost it. I am typically extremely even-keeled (or should we call that passive, hmm???). I've never been more upset with my parents and I let them have it. In an assertive way, but let 'em have it none the less. Fast forward 6 months and the girls are buckled up in the back seat sans car seats of some woman's car I've only just met. Sweet. All ends well with this story though, made it home just fine. And somehow, I was able to keep my cool in what only three days earlier would have brought me to the fetal position in a fit of tears. Like I said, things are looking up, people!