One of Those Days

This morning, some invisible force was determined to keep Justin and me home from church. It was like Murphy's Law being played out before our eyes. One thing after another: Justin dropping a fruit cup, which exploded all over the kitchen floor and threatened to make us late; his clothes taking a little too long to finish drying; and then, finally, the big one.

We were making our way into the garage. I said, "Honey, do you have your keys?" and before I could get the word "keys" out, he had shut the door. Which was locked. He said, "No, I was going to use yours." I dug through my purse, but to no avail. No keys. We were locked out.

Since everyone was already at church, we waited outside the house till noon. Finally, Justin was able to get a hold of his parents, who had a spare key -- or so we thought. WRONG! So, feeling more than a little discouraged, we called a locksmith. Actually, we called about four before we finally got a hold of someone.

We waited, and waited, and waited some more.

Justin's parents were kind enough to bring us lunch from San Jose (THE local place to get Mexican food) and wait with us a while.

I don't remember when the locksmith finally came, but I believe it was around 2 pm. We spent $60 for him to use a little tool that took about... oh, ten seconds to unlock the door. But by this time, we didn't care. I can not explain to you how good it felt to step back into our cozy, air conditioned home after three hours of sitting in the hot, humid garage (it was raining; otherwise, we might have sat on the back patio).

Most of the afternoon was spent relaxing and enjoying NOT being outside, but eventually we gave in and took care of the grocery shopping and yard work that were begging to be done.

We also had dinner at Shoney's with Tim, Shannon and Emily (who is spunkier than ever and stinking adorable), which was a lot of fun!

Not the best of days, but not the worst either. Spending time with my husband - even under such circumstances as these - is always nice. He's my best friend, and I love him so much.

I should mention that we learned our lesson after the little episode this morning. We now have a spare key in the car, which we can get into at any time using the number pad on the outside. And yes, I have the code memorized. :)

Love and Lattés,

Katie