They are so easy going! They continued on with their plans "just in case we were on that side of town". When we got home, Brent and the girls played chase and be scary games for a while. Then we all played a Nickelodeon Interactive DVD Bingo game they brought over. I am amazed at these girls. They knew exactly what they were doing and they showed us how to play!
At 10:30 a.m. (remember, I went to get them very early -- at 10:30, I was almost ready for a nap) I mentioned that today was supposed to be the last nice day of the year. The rain and snow was forecasted to start in the middle of the night Saturday. So we bundled up (it was still pretty chilly at 10:30) and all went outside. Maddison and Mackenzee played and played and played! They don't know the word "bored" because they do so well at entertaining themselves.
When Brent was cleaning up the leaves in the back yard, the girls discovered their sandbox down by the woods. The sand was amazingly clean and bug free! Once they opened the sandbox, that was it. They played in that for almost two hours!
After a yummy lunch I made with Thanksgiving leftovers, Sara came to pick up the girls. I then climed up in the attic and brought down our outdoor lights. I thought I'd better get them done NOW instead of doing it in the cold or wet or windy weather. Around 4:30, Brent had finished the yard, had just finished blowing off our driveway (he pulled our cars out in the cul-de-sac at the end of our driveway, just like he ALWAYS does). The lawnmower was still sitting out in the driveway. There was no mistake, if you happened to pull into our cul-de-sac, you would know we were right in the middle of yard work. I was putting up Christmas lights on the weeping cherry tree. Brent was in the house for a minute. I see a Fort Wayne Police cruiser come into the cul-de-sac. He circled a total of three times before stopping next to my car. My heart, by then, was just pounding. Laurel had left a couple hours before. I couldn't imagine why he was at OUR house unless something had happened with Laurel. WELL.....................I raised my sunglasses to get a good look, expecting him to get out and come up to talk to me. Instead, all of a sudden, I hear him on his LOUDSPEAKER ... in our quiet little cul-de-sac. He is screaming at me to move our cars our of the street and into our driveway). Then he pulled away as I stood there for a few seconds with my mouth hanging open. I didn't comprehend right away. Then I stormed in to see if Brent had witnessed that. He missed it, he was upstairs. Absolutely unbelievable. First of all, there were other houses on our street with vehicles parked out in the road. I did not hear him stop and scream at them on his loudspeaker. Our vehicles were in front of our driveway, not blocking or obstructing anything. And, truly, they were there only temporarily. Just by looking at what was going on in our yard and drive, a normal person would have come to that conclusion almost instantaneously.
I tried to call the non-emergency number for the Fort Wayne Police....they were closed. You can bet, though, that I will be calling first thing Monday morning. I, unfortunately, did not get a car number or anything. I was so stunned, I didn't even think. But you can bet, someone is going to get an earful from me!
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