Yes, this actually happened.
Most days after Brylee's naptime, I take her outside on the balcony so she can watch the golfers and eat her baby food while getting fresh air. Well, on Thursday she took a late nap, so at 3:30 I took her on the balcony without baby food, etc... As soon as I shut the door, I knew we had a problem. Yep, I LOCKED US OUT and Sam doesn't get home until 5:45 p.m.!
So, Brylee and I are stuck out on the balcony with only two rocking chairs, ducky, and myself as entertainment for her. We also had no way of knowing how much time had passed. Also, this is in the middle of our rush to get things ready for her birthday party a day and a half later!
In the middle of our time out on the balcony, Brylee starts throwing a fit (which I understand, I wanted to throw one too!), and trying to open the door herself. She kept looking at me like "Why aren't you taking me back inside?" I thought about yelling down to one of the golfers on the second hole, but my pride kept getting the best of me =).
Well, we're stuck on the balcony for what seems like forever...and Brylee and I keep peering through the living room windows watching for Sam, and I see someone on the front door step! At this point I KNOW it has to be past 5:45 (I mean we've been out there for HOURS), and I'm thinking "Who is at our front door?!" I know it's not Sam, b/c he would be in the house, and we wouldn't be on the balcony anymore.
Then I think, "what if Sam decided to meet someone for wings after work, what if he got in an accident and someone is trying to contact me, what if, what if, what if..." so I break down and start waving at the golfers (all the way across the golf course) at whole number 6. FINALLY, they hear me.
Our conversation goes soemthing like this as we're yelling across the golf course: Me - "Do you know what time it is? Golfer - "6:05" I immediately think 6:05!!! Where is Sam!!!! Me - "We're locked out of our house, do you have a cell phone?" Golfer - "There is someone in your driveway!" Golfer (now yelling to the person in our driveway) "Sir, do you live there?" At this point, I'm so confused!?!?! Why is some guy sitting in our driveway? The person in the driveway - "Yes!" Now, I'm even more confused... why is the person in the driveway saying they live at our house? The only other person that lives here, is Sam, and if Sam were home he would be inside and letting me and Brylee off the balcony! Golfer - "Well, your wife and child are stuck on the balcony." Around the house, and down the hill comes SAM!
Sam's perspective: Sam gets off work 10 minutes early that day and gets home at 5:35. He opens the garage door, and can't get into the house b/c the door (that we NEVER lock) from the garage door to the kitchen is locked. Sam never put a house key on his key ring, he ONLY had a garage door opener. He sees my SUV in the garage and thinks I locked all the doors when I took Brylee on a run (b/c he doesn't see the running stroller). So, Sam is sitting in the garage mad at me, b/c he thinks I locked him out of the house...and he's scanning the golf course b/c I run the golf cart path a lot. Well, after about 15 minutes of waiting, Sam looks in the back of the SUV and sees both the running stroller and normal stroller in the back! So now he starts to panic, and calls his dad to bring over a house key.
Every single door to the house is locked, my SUV is in the garage with both strollers, I won't answer my cell phone or the house phone, so now Sam thinks we are being robbed and Brylee and I are stuck inside. So he was NEVER going to come check the back of the house, b/c from the driveway he could see if someone went running out of the back onto the golf course, or left out the front or the side door. So as he's standing in the driveway worrying about us, a golfer yells to him "Sir do you live there?" and Sam finds out Brylee and I locked ourselves out on the balcony.
So as Sam is standing in the back talking to Brylee and I on the balcony, the golfer (confused as to why we're all still outside) yells "Do you need help?" I yell back "We're all locked out." The golfer laughs and yells "Hide a key!!!!"
And the whole reason the door to the house was locked anyways? When Roy (Sam's dad) had been here earlier that day, he came upstairs as I was putting Brylee down for a nap, and said he would just "lock up" on his way out.
Well, we had been SO BUSY getting the house ready and getting things together for Brylee's birthday party, I guess Brylee and I got to take a 2 1/2 hour break!
Monday, May 24, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Wheelin & Dealin
Oh, the fun to be had at yard sales!
Sam and I woke up at 5:30 a.m. this morning to Brylee wanting a bottle (she's not slept through the night SINCE we left our place in Louisville). We couldn't sleep (ok, actually Sam COULD sleep), and I got on the computer and started looking for bookshelves on Craigslist (we need one for Brylee's playroom). Well...that search led to a list of garage sales in the west knox area. Next thing I know, I had begged Sam (and was actually able to convince him) into going garage "sale-ing" with me! I was so excited, b/c in the 3 1/2 years we've been together, we had NEVER gone to a garage sale together. Plus, it got us out of the house and out from under our stack of boxes! =)
Being the smart and practical garage sale buyers that we are, we decided to go to two neighborhood garage sales so we could go to a few houses in one subdivision. But first, there was one bookshelf on Craigslist listed for $5 (it had a picture), and I thought that with a little white paint (and maybe a few pink accents), this birch bookshelf would look great for Brylee's playroom. So I call the lady and she says we can have it if we show up at her place before 10 a.m.
We get to this lady's house....and the bookshelf looks NOTHING like it did in the photo (birch? try cardboard!)! I'm actually not sure if you can call it a "bookshelf" b/c bookshelves typically have shelves and this had NONE! But since we had said on the phone we wanted it, we paid her $5 with the promise that Sam was going to make me some shelves for my "bookshelf" out of our extra shelves the contractors had left over from building our kitchen cabinets. Ha, this bookshelf was becoming another BIG PROJECT on our ever growing list!
So we continue on to our two subdivisions of neighborhood garage sales... and after visiting four houses, we go to a house that has a large, orange bookshelf for $25. Sam, Brylee, and I look at it...and while this bookshelf is HUGE, it does actually have shelves. As we're discussing the possibility of painting it white, the garage sale lady hears me. She's like "I have a white bookshelf for sale right over there!" We look, and see the CUTEST, white, sturdy, well-made bookshelf! This bookshelf was sooo much cuter than even ones I was looking at brand new from furniture stores. It was PERFECT!
Now we have a dilemma. We don't have room for the perfect, white bookshelf in our SUV with the $5 bookshelf and Brylee's stroller in the back. As Sam and I are debating how we're going to fit this white bookshelf in our vehicle, the garage sale lady thinks we're debating whether or not to buy it, and comes over and drops the price $10! So now, the white bookshelf is only $25 (little did she know we were a FOR SURE sale!).
Ha, so I go pull up the vehicle to put this white bookshelf in the back, and Sam asks the garage sale lady if they will take our $5 bookshelf. Needless to say, the bookshelf with no shelves ended up at their garage sale, and if I had to guess ... it is probably now at the trash dump with their leftover items they couldn't sell!
Anyways, Sam, Brylee, and I actually had a LOT OF FUN today going to garage sales. At the beginning of the day Sam thought this was all going to be a waste of time... but we had a blast. I have a feeling we will end up going again sometime this summer.
Our list of garage sale finds today:
- Bookshelf $30 (it was $25, but since we spent $5 on the first bookshelf... technically it was $30)
- little M&M figuarine 25 cents (Sam thinks this was the steal of the century... if I had to guess, it will probably make its way into one of our garage sales for 25 cents sometime in the next couple of years =)haha)
- Balderdash (a game) $2.00
- Titanic the boardgame $3.00
- Bunny Potato Head $2.00 (ha, a lady was really pushing us to buy something for Brylee... so out of all her "baby" toys we picked something that has to sit on her closet shelf until she turns three and can't swallow the parts =) )
- Truth or Crap playing cards $2.00
- a black, leather Tennessee notebook 25 cents
- Little Tykes piano $1.00
Sam and I woke up at 5:30 a.m. this morning to Brylee wanting a bottle (she's not slept through the night SINCE we left our place in Louisville). We couldn't sleep (ok, actually Sam COULD sleep), and I got on the computer and started looking for bookshelves on Craigslist (we need one for Brylee's playroom). Well...that search led to a list of garage sales in the west knox area. Next thing I know, I had begged Sam (and was actually able to convince him) into going garage "sale-ing" with me! I was so excited, b/c in the 3 1/2 years we've been together, we had NEVER gone to a garage sale together. Plus, it got us out of the house and out from under our stack of boxes! =)
Being the smart and practical garage sale buyers that we are, we decided to go to two neighborhood garage sales so we could go to a few houses in one subdivision. But first, there was one bookshelf on Craigslist listed for $5 (it had a picture), and I thought that with a little white paint (and maybe a few pink accents), this birch bookshelf would look great for Brylee's playroom. So I call the lady and she says we can have it if we show up at her place before 10 a.m.
We get to this lady's house....and the bookshelf looks NOTHING like it did in the photo (birch? try cardboard!)! I'm actually not sure if you can call it a "bookshelf" b/c bookshelves typically have shelves and this had NONE! But since we had said on the phone we wanted it, we paid her $5 with the promise that Sam was going to make me some shelves for my "bookshelf" out of our extra shelves the contractors had left over from building our kitchen cabinets. Ha, this bookshelf was becoming another BIG PROJECT on our ever growing list!
So we continue on to our two subdivisions of neighborhood garage sales... and after visiting four houses, we go to a house that has a large, orange bookshelf for $25. Sam, Brylee, and I look at it...and while this bookshelf is HUGE, it does actually have shelves. As we're discussing the possibility of painting it white, the garage sale lady hears me. She's like "I have a white bookshelf for sale right over there!" We look, and see the CUTEST, white, sturdy, well-made bookshelf! This bookshelf was sooo much cuter than even ones I was looking at brand new from furniture stores. It was PERFECT!
Now we have a dilemma. We don't have room for the perfect, white bookshelf in our SUV with the $5 bookshelf and Brylee's stroller in the back. As Sam and I are debating how we're going to fit this white bookshelf in our vehicle, the garage sale lady thinks we're debating whether or not to buy it, and comes over and drops the price $10! So now, the white bookshelf is only $25 (little did she know we were a FOR SURE sale!).
Ha, so I go pull up the vehicle to put this white bookshelf in the back, and Sam asks the garage sale lady if they will take our $5 bookshelf. Needless to say, the bookshelf with no shelves ended up at their garage sale, and if I had to guess ... it is probably now at the trash dump with their leftover items they couldn't sell!
Anyways, Sam, Brylee, and I actually had a LOT OF FUN today going to garage sales. At the beginning of the day Sam thought this was all going to be a waste of time... but we had a blast. I have a feeling we will end up going again sometime this summer.
Our list of garage sale finds today:
- Bookshelf $30 (it was $25, but since we spent $5 on the first bookshelf... technically it was $30)
- little M&M figuarine 25 cents (Sam thinks this was the steal of the century... if I had to guess, it will probably make its way into one of our garage sales for 25 cents sometime in the next couple of years =)haha)
- Balderdash (a game) $2.00
- Titanic the boardgame $3.00
- Bunny Potato Head $2.00 (ha, a lady was really pushing us to buy something for Brylee... so out of all her "baby" toys we picked something that has to sit on her closet shelf until she turns three and can't swallow the parts =) )
- Truth or Crap playing cards $2.00
- a black, leather Tennessee notebook 25 cents
- Little Tykes piano $1.00
Friday, May 14, 2010
A Great Deal on Diapers!!!
Ok, so my mom sent me this email like a month ago -- I tried it, and it really worked! =) I just got the check from parenting magazine today, even though I had put my Louisville address and we now live in Tennessee!
Forwarded email:
So for all of those parents that have kids in diapers, here's how to get them for $3.70/pack (no S/H and no tax!)
Go to Diapers.com
Order 7 packs of Luvs diapers @ $6.99/pack. (you can pick any kind, they have all of the brands) Order 1 pampers wipes travel pack for $1.99. This gets you to the $49 min. THEY ARE NOW $7.99 A PACK, SO YOU WOULD ORDER 6 PACKS AND THE TRAVEL WIPES.
Checkout and use referral code: BRXX6766 and get $10 off your order. Your total will be $40.92.
Then go to http://www.diapers.com/helpcenter/parenting.htmand print the rebate for $14.97.
You can choose a free year of Parents Mag or cash. I AM NOT SURE HOW LONG THIS LASTS, BUT IT'S STILL THERE TO PRINT! :) Your out of pocket cost after your rebate is $25.95 or $3.70/pack!!! Your diapers show up at your door within one to two days.
End of forwarded email
OK, so that's the email I got... but basically I ordered Pamper's...and I didn't do individual packs, I ordered the jumbo pack for $40 and then added a smaller pack for $10 ... I ended up getting around 200 diapers (size 3's) for $26.00!
Forwarded email:
So for all of those parents that have kids in diapers, here's how to get them for $3.70/pack (no S/H and no tax!)
Go to Diapers.com
Order 7 packs of Luvs diapers @ $6.99/pack. (you can pick any kind, they have all of the brands) Order 1 pampers wipes travel pack for $1.99. This gets you to the $49 min. THEY ARE NOW $7.99 A PACK, SO YOU WOULD ORDER 6 PACKS AND THE TRAVEL WIPES.
Checkout and use referral code: BRXX6766 and get $10 off your order. Your total will be $40.92.
Then go to http://www.diapers.com/helpcenter/parenting.htm
You can choose a free year of Parents Mag or cash. I AM NOT SURE HOW LONG THIS LASTS, BUT IT'S STILL THERE TO PRINT! :) Your out of pocket cost after your rebate is $25.95 or $3.70/pack!!! Your diapers show up at your door within one to two days.
End of forwarded email
OK, so that's the email I got... but basically I ordered Pamper's...and I didn't do individual packs, I ordered the jumbo pack for $40 and then added a smaller pack for $10 ... I ended up getting around 200 diapers (size 3's) for $26.00!
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