Back to Reality

So we returned from a lovely vacation to find our refrigerator was warm. Well not so much warm as "Not cold". Upon further investigation, we discovered the temperature knob was turned off! After I furiously blamed my husband for a good 10 minutes and he continued to claim innocence, we called the young one in. This was the conversation:

Me: "G did you touch that dial?"

G: "No" while smiling sheepishly

Me: "Its ok, tell me the truth you won't get in trouble" (Yeah right)

G: "I touched it"

Me: "Why did you touch it?" (while gritting my teeth)

G: "Because I wanted it to be at 5 o'clock" (Damn school and their teaching of time)

Me: "Well G, you turned off the whole fridge and now all of the food in it is ruined and in the freezer and we have to throw it all out"

G: "Its ok Mommy, just go buy all new food"

Then my husband quickly escorted G out of the room while I emptied and cleaned the freezer and fridge (Did i mention the melted ice cream in the freezer? Good times!). I spent saturday doing massive food shopping to replace all the food and my previously stocked freezer. Fortunately, the time change had us all up at 5am so I was able to get a head start on all that!

One day I'll laugh about this, I will. Just not today. or tomorrow. or next week. You know when I'll laugh? When I have grandkids and teach them how to change the dial on the fridge so they can do it too! Thats when I will laugh.