Cat Burglar

Benefit of a new garage - we get to park inside and walk in the backdoor. Downside - the kids beat me to the door and then stand there yelling "Mom, the door is locked!" while I struggle to close the car door/garage door and carry all my work bags in and at least one item of theirs.

One day, Peri beat us all to the back door. Somehow she opened it. I was in the car cleaning out pounds of old goldfish and yogurt wrappers from the back seat. I looked out the garage window and could see Nick on the deck going crazy! He was motioning and yelling. I ran over to find that when Peri opened the door, she also set off  the alarm. I was waiting for the alarm company to call, but for once they called Chris instead of me. Told Chris all was well and tried to talk to Peri about why she can't just open doors and set off alarms. She walked away from me.

In the middle of making dinner a policeman shows up at our back door. I apologized (after making an "AGGHH!" face) and explained what had happened. He was very nice and said he'd rather come out to nothing than to miss a real emergency. Once he left I let Peri have it. "DO YOU KNOW WHY THAT POLICEMAN CAME TO OUR HOUSE??? BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SET ALARMS OFF!" She blew a raspberry at me and walked away. Really??!!!

A cop showed up at my house once when I was growing up and all three girls ran and hid assuming he was after us. (He was after Megan for dialing 9-1-1) I need to put the fear in her somehow...