Day Askew

Ok - so I haven't been posting a lot. There was Victoria Day (hey - who says the monarchy is useless?) and there was a frost warning that nearly did in my poor early planted seedlings. The basil shriveled up and died in protest of late Canadian cold snaps. I really hope the neighbours weren't shocked by our weird old bedsheets tucked over my box garden...

Anywho, today everything was off. We didn't get off to our usual start, I spilled my precious coffee, Geekling wouldn't take her nap on time and had to be lulled down by a hot car, she pooped no less than three times in throughout the day, we went to play at our neighbours and Geekling was afraid of their parrot (she usually loves animals), the cute bubble maker I picked up for her ended up terrifying her too, I spilled a glass of water at a said neighbours and, after being out in the sun too long as it was, TWN and I managed to lock us all out of the house for a couple hours.

Sigh.

I had locked up the house while we were out playing and at the house a few doors down the street. I felt for the fellow stay at home mom who was being run ragged by her three kids, 6 and under, today.

When TWN got home, he took my keys to get into the house. Afterwards he was puttering about outside doing yard work. The kids were demanding, to the point of going and getting, the bubble machine I had purchased that day. The machine had frightened Geekling and so we wanted it out of the way. I took it into the garage, making a show of it to the kids, and closed the garage door - hopping over the sensor as the automated door closed. Can you see where this is going? A few minutes later TWN popped his head around the front of the house and seemed surprised by the closed door.

As it turned out, he had only opened the house door *inside* the garage and not the actual front door. All the doors and windows were locked and TWN had left my keys in the house when he came back out. Our friends and neighbours across the street have a key to our house, but they had left only 15 minutes earlier (and in such a way as to indicate that they'd be out for the evening). With no phone, no money, no food or diapers for Geekling... it was looking like a painful wait.

We were lucky that Geekling was so thrilled to be outside that she didn't complain much about being hungry. TWN used a neighbours phone to send a text to our friend in the hopes that they would be home sooner, rather than later. I was so glad that I'd slathered sunscreen on my protesting babe, though I hadn't been so thorough with myself. Guess we'll see how much my fair genetically challenged skin held up shortly.

In any case, we had no way of telling the time, but it seemed to move very slowly. Our friends cut short their shopping, much to the delight of the husband, to answer our texted plea. When they got home, Geekling played a bit with their kids and we chatted. By then it was half an hour before her usual bedtime. She wolfed down a jar of oatmeal apple/peach, some peanut buttered crackers, a little cheese and a bit of the pizza I ordered almost right after coming in the door. Bath was super quick and she practically demanded to be put to bed.

And now I sit catching up on online stuffs while watching the animated Batman: Gotham Knight DVD. It's pretty good and I'm really enjoying Kevin Conroy's Bat voicing.