At 3:00 a.m., I awoke to the voice of Bubby saying, "Mommy, I wanna fweep (sleep) with you." I gave him a hug and snuggled in with him in our bed. Just as I finally got back to sleep, I hear a horrible sound throughout our house. It was 5:20 a.m. and the security alarm had gone off! I yelled John’s name. I’ve never seen him jump out of the bed so fast! He told me to stay in the bedroom and shut the door. My biggest fear (other than drowning) is not being able to see if someone were to break in our home or kidnap me! I’m as blind as a bat without my glasses or contacts. I jumped out of the bed to grab my glasses. I knocked everything off of my nightstand, including my glasses and the phone. Meanwhile, Breydon was still sound asleep all cozy in the bed. I grabbed him and tried to remain calm because I didn’t want to scare him. He said, "Mommy, is it time to get up yet? Let’s watch Mickey!" I said, "Buddy, it’s still nighttime. The alarm went off in the house so Daddy is checking to make sure everything is okay." He had a confused look on his face, but didn’t question anything. I found the bathroom door and the phone that I had knocked off the nightstand and went into the bathroom and locked the door. I kept hollering at John to make sure that he was okay. I had the phone up to my nose trying to see the numbers so that I could dial 911, if necessary. Then...the phone says "Line in Use." Uh, talk about scaring you to death! I’ve seen too many horror films. Did somebody cut the phone line? Did they take it off the hook on purpose? I wanted to pass out, but I kept telling myself to remain calm for Breydon’s sake. As I'm holding Breydon, I kept trying to get a dial tone and the next thing I knew it was the alarm company calling. The ring scared me so bad I almost peed my pants! ha I’m sure we would have won Funniest Home Videos if we had our video camera on during this time. John came in the room and told me that he thought everything was okay. Long story short, our front door was open! I would have been freaked out, but the outside glass door was locked. John thought that it must not have been closed all of the way and the wind had pushed it open. Thank Goodness! So...we all got cozy back in our bed and remained WIDE AWAKE! I swear I heard a million noises after that and made John get up a couple of times. As I FINALLY started to drift off...MY ALARM CLOCK WENT OFF! TGIF! I don't want to hear another alarm for the next two days!
