Wood Badge Week

Well, so far I have managed to survive while Brian and Mom have been gone at Wood Badge, almost.

I was getting ready to put the kids to bed and retire myself to the basement to fold laundry. I turned off the lights and locked up the doors and headed downstairs. Ephraim's room has the doorknob on backward and while I was putting Ephraim in his crib, Brigham came in and closed the door. He has this nasty habit of locking doors and I am constantly getting mad at him over it.

When I realized the door was locked, I went into panic mode. Brian and Mom won't be home until tomorrow afternoon. I tried to make a key out of a wire hanger, but I couldn't get it bent straight enough to get it in the hole. I am imagining us trapped in the room with no food for a day and getting really frightened. I decided we could climb out the window, but then what would we do. The house is locked up tight like a prison jail, windows included, and the garage door pad had stopped working about a month ago. I opened the window (in the process I broke the blinds, oops.) and hoisted Brigham out of the window. I did not want to leave Ephraim alone, so I told Brigham to run to the Davis' and tell them mommy needs help. After a couple minutes I began to wonder if Brigham could really do it, so I opted to leave Ephraim alone and climbed out the window. I found Brigham in the middle of the street. He said he was just trying to go to the neighbors, although I am not sure which neighbor he was going to as he was walking in the direction of the Austin's home.

Thank goodness for such a good neighbor. Russ Davis was home and climbed down into Ephraim's room. For some reason, the doorknob wouldn't unlock, so Russ ended up using a bobby pin to unscrew the doorknob and get it open and come to the rescue. What a relief that we didn't have to stay down there too long, and I was especially grateful that I was dressed.

After all that, I went down to close the window and put Ephraim back to bed, and Brigham came down and did it again. Luckily the house wasn't locked up this time.