If You Want It To Work You Need To Close The Door

Last night I got to go to Mom's Night Out, yay! Unfortunately, it was only me and one other person. Fortunately, that person was Ellie who I love and haven't gotten to see much lately so we had a great time catching up. I love Mom's Night Out. Too bad it's only once a month. Of course, once a month is better than not at all.

Anyway, this really isn't the point of my post. This morning, as I was getting Andy's lunch ready, he told me how they had popsicles after dinner last night. Or maybe Sarah told me. Someone told me. It was a big deal, not to me, to them. It became a big deal to me a few hours later when I realized that someone had left the freezer door open. The freezer to the fridge in the garage. Where it is at least 90 degrees. All night long. Ugh! Needless to say, everything melted.

Yesterday I was complaining that the freezer was too full and I didn't have anywhere to put anything. Today I have a completely empty freezer. Yay me. I say this with no enthusiasm in my voice at all. I'm sorry to say, I thought Charlie was the culprit. Luckily I asked him about it before yelling at him about it, and he told me Andy was the one who went to get the popsicles out of the freezer. When I asked Andy about it, his first response was, "Well, hey", which is what he usually says when he gets into his defense mode. Then he finished with "the freezer was really full and I couldn't get the box to stay in and I didn't want to spend the time to make sure the door shut". Okay, but you couldn't ask Daddy to fix it so the door would stay shut, you just decided to leave it open? Some times that kid can be so amazingly smart and other times he is just a huge dumb ass. This would be one of those times.

So, I explained to him that everything in the freezer melted, and I had to throw it away. Including his popsicles. Sarah wanted to go to the store that minute to buy more, but I don't think they'll be getting any popsicles for awhile. I also explained to him that at least $100 worth of food had to be thrown out and replaced, and instead of replacing food we already had we could have used the money to buy more popsicles or even a Wii game. I think it was then that it really sunk in what he had done and he sadly apologized.

I have no idea if the kids learned anything from this. I learned that Andy isn't quite old enough to do everything you think he can do and you have to check to make sure he does it right. I also learned the quickest way to clean out a full fridge is to leave the door open. On a positive note now there's lots of room in the freezer.