Emergency? Call Mom

So last night, while all of us were snug and warm in our cozy beds sound asleep at 2:45 AM...our house alarm goes off. I yell,"Jim! Alarm!" as I am jumping out of bed and sprinting down the hallway to James and Sophia. Must save the kids!! The alarm woke James up so I snatch him up and run into Sophia's room. I wait just inside Sophia's door, waiting for Jim to follow closely behind when I realize...he is not coming. He is just getting out of bed! I hear him starting to move a little faster in the bedroom and then he starts running around (for what I am not sure of). Then the phone rings - it's our security company. Jim answers the phone and starts talking to them. They turn off the alarm and I hear Jim say, "Karen, Zone 9 is a bedroom downstairs...is that the basement?! Should I go down to check?" I am thinking to myself "Hello!!??? Get your a** over here and have them call the police! Oh, and by the way, bring my cell phone." After that, I decided to take over with the course of action. Apparently if it isn't medical, Jim has to think things over before he reacts...he did this type of thing when we had our house fire too. (Of course all of this took about 20-30 seconds from the time the alarm went off but it seemed longer than that at the time. I shouldn't be so hard on Jim. He's been working hard.) Anyway, to shorten the story, the police came over to check out the outside of the house. No forced entry anywhere. A very friendly policeman came in and looked things over again inside the house. (I am sure he had a giggle at Jim's underwear and my old nightgown from college. He laughed at James' hair.) It turns out it was nothing, maybe a book fell and made the sensor go off. We all settled down and went back to sleep at around 3:45.

4:30 - House alarm goes off again! I am up and down the hall again like a lightening bolt. No time to think...must save the kids. Same thing happens. This time Jim is a little more awake. However, when we found out it was Zone 9 again we kept the police away and went down to check it out ourselves with the security system on the phone. Apparently we have a faulty glass break sensor. They are coming to fix it soon. Everyone back to bed, go to sleep. I finally went to sleep at around 5:15. What a long night.

Jim, James, and I were all very tired today.

Sophia, on the other hand, had a peaceful nights sleep. She didn't wake up to either alarm nor did she wake up when we were all in her room talking to the dispatcher.