Last day of school and the alarm debacle

Today was the last day of MDO for this year. Taylor and Sutton absolutely love going to school so I don't know how long it will take for it to set in that they will not be going for a few months. Each night when we go to bed they talk about school and start naming every little kid in their class and their teachers over and over.

Today they had Water Day at school and had to wear their bathing suits for the pool and waterslide and got to eat pizza, chips and sno-cones. They obviously had a wonderful time and are still wound up so much so that I don't think they will go to sleep for a nap today. It's 3:00 and they've been in bed for an hour and are still playing and talking. Might be an early bedtime tonight which would be just fine w/ me.

Last night was like a Chinese firedrill around here and I didn't get much sleep. Just as I was finishing up reading to the girls and about to put them in bed the alarm downstairs starts going off like crazy. Immediately I think someone is trying to break in to kill us all and of course Clint is out of town!!!! I ran downstairs and the keypad said "Check 02" which was the front door so I really thought someone was trying to get in. No one was there...I called Clint because I could not get the stupid alarm to turn off and the girls were screaming and going crazy upstairs. It was total chaos for a while. I ended up having to call the alarm company and the guy tells me that the sensor on the door needs a new battery. Oh great! How the heck am I supposed to know how to do that!? I am trying to FIND where to change a battery (all the while the girls are going nuts upstairs and the freakin' alarm is still beeping)...this goes on for a while. I am just exasperated cause what he's telling me makes no sense...long story short, he had no idea what he was talking about, there is no battery to change on our door sensor, I had to completely unhook the back up battery from the alarm box and then get sent on a wild goosechase throughout the house to find the AC adapater that is SUPPOSEDLY plugged into an outlet and screwed in the wall. I am getting mad all over just thinking about this craziness!!! So, I tell the guy to hold on, go upstairs and at least put the girls in their bed (they were running wild in their room) so I can go to the basement to look for this elusive AC adapter to unplug it so this stupid alarm will stop beeping. I look all over the stinking basement and cannot find it, go back upstairs and the guy is gone...dial tone on the phone. I think he must have hung up cause he didn't want to deal w/ me cuz I was ticked at this point. So I call back, get another lady and by this time I am so mad I am very, very close to using cuss words while talking to her. She was one of those people who talks over you and you can't even tell her what the heck she needs to know because she won't SHUT UP for 2 seconds. So, I just start talking over her...we were literally both talking at the same time for like 20 seconds but I just didn't care. After a while she figured out that our alarm system is hardwired rather than just a plug in ....which I had told her at least 3 times but she never heard me because she wouldn't shut up and listen. So, there is no AC adapter and I was looking for nothing. I ended up having to get a screw driver and unhook wires on the alarm system because it would not turn off w/ the keypad for some reason. All that being said we have been having the outside of our house painted and the windows have to be left open just a little bit for a few days. So, no alarm, Clint's out of town, windows open, ladders outside big enough to reach to the top of our house...I am a scaredy cat beyond belief and am terrified of someone stealing my babies so...I slept in their bedroom floor last night on a blanket and I am sore as can be today and a little cranky. I will be so glad when the weekend gets here, Clint is home, the painters are gone, Clint finishes painting the den, and we get our house put back together. It's all driving me nuts now.