This is my dramatic re-telling of a little excitement we experienced yesterday. Heidi received a call from our neighbor Nicole (also church friend, play date friend, blog reader, etc) that there were two home invasion preditors on the loose in our neighborhood. Heidi had noticed the helicopters flying around our house and wondered what was going on. Five schools around our house were on lockdown plus all the police and news helicopters were around, so apparently something big was going on. Heidi did the right thing and started to go around the house to make sure everything was locked up tight.
When she opened the unlocked door that leads into our garage, her heart skipped when she found that the back door out of the garage was wide open - a door that we never leave open and always have locked. She immediately called me and began putting on her and Sasha's shoes and coats to go over to Nicole's. As I realized how dangerous the situation could be, I called our local police station who in turn told me quite abruptly to "have your wife hang up right now and call 911."
Heidi did just that and within a minute or two (while still on the phone with 911), our house was surrounded by a half dozen police cars coming from every direction. As they arrived, some went around the house one way, some the other way, and others came in the front door. They searched the garage, basement, etc. but came up empty-handed. They told her they had already caught one of the guys and were still looking for the second.
Heidi and I in our later discussion figured out that Heidi had been the last one to use that garage door the previous day (apparently she felt motivated to shovel???) and didn't know that particular door requires a good tug to verify that it is completely latched. She hardly ever uses that door, especially in the winter, and I hadn't used it in weeks, so I had no reason to think that it could have been the wind, which is probably what it was in the end.
You can read the outcome of the drama here
This got me thinking by the end of the day that if someone really did break into our house, what would they steal? Probably the computer, TV, my Left Behind series book collection, and other similar high value items. But my thought was this, if they stole the computer and probably the backup hard drive that sits right next to it, the electronics can be replaced, but all of our digital pictures over the last 6 years would be gone. So that night when I got home, I burned a DVD with all of our pictures and important files on it. The end.
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