I blame the infants.

I blame you for being stupid and having children. (Sorry, if you didn't have children to think about, you would be less tired and worn out and thus more careful.) Though what happened still sucks dick. I did the same sort of thing with my van the other week.

something similar happened to us when my daughter was a baby. luckily the kitchen window was still open because it was summer so my husband just boosted me through...i certainly learned my lesson and now take my keys even if i'm just stepping out to grab the mail. there's nothing wrong with having a drink or two once the kids are asleep. you may be a parent but you're still a person, you're still allowed to relax once the little ones are off in dreamland. all those saying you're a bad parent for having a beer probably don't have kids, or are so stressed out from not permitting themselves to relax that they're about to blow.

haha!

The rest of the story: I had my cellphone on me (I always do). I called a friend who lived close by who keeps a set of keys for us. She drove over while we sat in the garage (the car trunk was unlocked and I crawled through to get to the inside of the car, and I could get access to the garage door opener, but my husband had locked the inner door to the house - which is why I tried the garage door in the first place) waiting and listening to the monitor. I had grabbed a beer for solidarity, but wasn't really drinking it. I honestly don't like to drink very much since having the kids (obviously didn't drink while pregnant, either), but my husband is awesome and deserved some time off. So I grabbed beers for both of us so he would have one. Usually he just finishes my beer or it ends up getting poured out. The friend got there rather quickly (about 15 minutes) while my husband sat, drank his beer and wondered aloud which of his power tools he would use to cut through the garage wall into the house if the kids started crying (they never woke up). We got in, we laughed. I carry my keys in my pocket at all times now, and my husband doesn't think I'm weird for always having my cellphone on me anymore. It wasn't a crisis, but it sure did freak us out. We're pretty attentive parents, and these are the only kids we're ever going to have (I got my tubes tied after delivery - we figured that two kids would be one for each of us, 0 growth population and really all the kids we could ever take care of anyway), so sometimes the whole first parent thing can make one kind of dumb. Sleep is in short supply, but the kids are worth it.

I didn't used to, then It became a habit. Now I live in an apartment where its not unusual to have people try anf get into my apartment because they're too drunk to realize it's not thiers. I have people come in during the earlier parts of the night before I lock my door, but if I'm awake I just send them away. Who knows what they'd get into if they came in when I'm asleep.

.... so? Walk up to a door and... unlock it? Either with the key in your pocket, your husband's pocket, the spare key in the yard, or one of the neighbor's keys. If you didn't trust the neighbors enough to give them a key -- call whoever you *did* leave spares with, either with your cell, or knock on a neighbor's door. Big whoop.

some people dont let people hold onto their spare keys people! i hope your twins were fine and you went through a window or something.

hmm, sounds an awful lot like that Friends episode where Rachel & Ross accidently locked the apartment where Emma was inside, alone.

How can you be writing this if your LOCKED OUTSIDE?? HMM.... Stupid post