Child Safety Locks

Are they good or are they bad? You be the judge!

So yesterday was a busy day and all with Lee's birthday...cupcakes to school and getting dinner supplies for his birthday dinner. We had spaghetti...again...we have it every year. It's his most fave dinner EVER!

Anyway, since yesterday was Lee's birthday he got to take cupcakes to school and so you and I both know the cupcakes would never survive the bus ride to school. So to save that heart ache I took the boys to school with the cupcakes in hand.

Here is where the story begins...after my nephew gets dropped off at my house I head the boys out to the car. That's 5 children I'm dragging around with a Tupperware thing full of cupcakes! I unlock the car and the kids get in and we drive to school. We get to the parking lot and I tell the kids they have to wait at the sidewalk for me while I get Eli in the stroller and get the treat. I'm out and about doing my thing getting the stroller ready and the kids are fighting to all get out of the door at the same time. They haven't learned yet that it doesn't work that way. Someday I hope it will click for them but I'm not holding my breath for that one.

So for some reason they can't get their act together and open the door and I tell them they need to unlock the door and to push not pull...you know all those things. They still can't get the door open! What gives! I said enough of this and went and stomped over and opened the door and said get onto the sidewalk! I go back and get Eli and the cupcakes and off we go to the school. I drop Ian off and then drop Lee and the cupcakes at his classroom and off the rest of us go back to the car.

I get the 2 big boys in the car and they start buckling themselves and I get Eli in his seat and the stroller put away. I go back around to the other side and climb into the car to buckle up Dru...he hasn't quite figured out how to do that himself yet with his new big boy seat. So I get in and mind you it's very windy where I live and the wind blew the door shut...sorta. It was the kinda shut where you have to pull the door shut and then try and open it back up...or so I thought.

I got done with Dru and went to try and get out of the car so I could get to the driver's side...well I couldn't' get the door open! What the heck!?! So I unlock the door , I make sure I am pushing and not pulling...and I still can't get the door open! What is going on here! I finally have to 'gracefully' crawl to the front passenger seat (awkward!) and get out that way! Apparently it was just the boys but me too?

Well as I was driving myself to the grocery store I call my friend Nikki and tell her I need a new car cause mine is giving me some 'tude! She was bright enough to ask me if the child lock was on (I had not done this with my car in some time, I have it unlocked so my kids can get themselves out of the car). I said well no...I don't think it is? Now I have to look. Sure enough someone had put the child lock back on and was TOYING with me!

I was trying to get out of that car for five minute people!!!!! Five minutes of looking like the craziest person in the school parking lot...short of banging on the window and screaming for someone to let me out! I did toy with waiting it out until a friend of mine I knew was coming to the school to bail me out...but that was like 45 minute wait...I opted to not do that one...

Hope you all got a good laugh from that one...just a day in the life of Gracefully Grace.