Wednesdays

are always extremely busy.
This morning i brought the children to school, went grocery shopping, to the tanning bank, into town to get them new summer clothes and hurried back home. Unloaded everything, went out again to get Caroline a present for the girl who's party she was going to in the afternoon and bread.
Right before my own front door I realize i don't have my keys with me. It is 12.10 so i have about 20 minutes before i have to pickup the kids again.
I don't have a phone with me
I don't know Melissa's, Robbert's or even my sister's number by heart.
I am a bloody idiot.

Neither of my neighbors are at home.
Nor their neighbors.
Only 3 houses away the father of one of the kids schoolfriends is at home.
Now i can dedicate a whole post to that father alone (mad scientist type) but now is not the place nor time.

I squeeze myself painfully through dense growing bushes and plants, climb over fences, only to notice that yep, i did close the back door too.
I squeeze back and get Julien's ladder with him out of the cellar.
Again, i can dedicate a whole post to this scene, (Julien is handicapped and can only use one hand and swings with a leg AND has no light in his cellar) but now is not the place nor time.

I somehow get the ladder up my terrace.

Only to see it is not long enough for me to reach the balcony.

I put the ladder on a table

I chicken out when i put my first step.

Besides it must be high time I collect the kids and hey.... they can probably do this way better.

I squeeze back thru 3 gardens, tell Julien i will be back with 3 kids in 10 minutes to give it another go.

Morten wants to go play at a friend
Caroline has her princess dress on because - o right that too - it was the teachers birthday today
I tell them all I have a very dangerous assigment for them and need their help.

Never got out of school with so few trouble.

I ring Juliens bell.
We all storm into his living room, into the yard, i tell caroline that she absolutely definitely is not coming with us and squeeze myself for the 4th time thru the bushes.

Morten sees the construction i made and says he needs to think again.

I tell him he's absolutely right, but if he doesn't want to do it, i have his brother wai....

Before i can finish he's up on the balcony.

I guess i am going to give Julien a housekey.