Locked Out!

I had quite the scary experience last Saturday, right now McKenna is going through a phase where she loves closing doors and locking them. Our bathrooms doors are all more often than not locked, same thing with my bedroom door.

So on Saturday McKenna and I ran to the grocery store, when we got home I was unloading the groceries, I put my purse in the house along with McKenna. I had one more bag and a gallon of milk to grab, I had them both and was walking into my house when McKenna closed the door and locked it! I had no idea what to do, my purse, my phone, along with my keys and Daves' were all in the house! I totally panicked, I ran around to all of the doors, but I knew they would all be locked, I am much too anal about that kind of thing. Then I ran back to the garage door and spent the next five minutes trying to convince McKenna to open the door for me. I could hear her playing with the doorknob, but no such luck on actually unlocking it.

I then ran as fast as I could over to Stephanie and Derek's house! I crying pretty hard by this time because I had to idea how we were going to get into my house! Derek and Stephanie were wonderful, they dropped what they were doing (getting ready for Miri's 4th birthday party) and Derek ran back to my house and Stephanie gave me her phone so I could call Dave. Dave was amazing, he game up with a fabulous solution to get into our house that didn't involve breaking any windows or doors,and was so calm! Derek was able to get into our house and unlock the door in just a minute or two! When he got into the house McKenna was totally fine, she had gone through the groceries and had gotten out the cookies and was walking around the house with them.

I can't tell you how hard I prayed that McKenna would be okay until we were able to get to her. I know it wasn't that big of an emergency looking back now, but I can't tell you how helpless I felt when my baby was in the house getting into who knows what, and I couldn't do a thing to get to her. I feel so blessed that we have family that lives so close, it was such a wonderful comfort knowing that I could run to Stephanie and Derek and know that they would do whatever they could to help me. I am so blessed!