Scrapbooking the bad stuff part 3

Not really a BAD story here, just in my daughter’s opinion slightly traumatic.  I don’t want all my scrapbooks to be full of sunshine and roses (as nice as those are!), so I’m trying to also scrapbook about the not-so-great stuff too and here’s one of my layouts from a while back about such an incident.

Here’s the story I wrote on my scrapbook page:

February 9, 2006 Summer was being a grouch this morning (she inherited that from me). She was mad about having to brush her teeth (as usual) and went into the bathroom & locked the door. We live in an old house with old doors and old doorknobs, so our lock is not on the knob like most you’d see nowadays. It’s on the door, a little switch that you just flip to the right. Well, it’s a little harder to flip back to UNlock the door. So guess what? She locked herself in & couldn’t get out. Ken was in the driveway with the motor running cause it was time to go to school & she couldn’t get out. He was SO MAD. He had to get his tools, take the doorknob plate thingie off the door and use a screwdriver to unlock it! So he took her to school, came back & for probably 25 minutes he was in there trying all kinds of skeleton keys from the basement to see if any of them worked. Nope! He finally did find a ratchet that was the right size. There was a point, though, where I wanted to cry.  She got choked up and we were telling her to “just turn the lock, turn the lock.” Her little girl voice cracked & and she said “I tried to turn it and I can’t do it. I’m just a little girl…” It was so pitiful. I’m sure someday we’ll think that incident was funny!

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I used a key on my layout to symbolize how she was locked in!  And I found the little black Making Memories tag that says “freak out.”  Could not have been more perfect for this page, since that is what all 3 of us were doing! 

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Thank God my life is not boring, right?  RIGHT?!?