Someone is looking out for me and my kids.

This is a strange post...but here goes. I live in a very nice town/city in Oklahoma, outside of Oklahoma City. And of that town, I live in one of the more affluent area. Not to say we are rolling in dough, we are not, but we do well and live within our means. My kids go to public school and I drive a paid off minivan, when I want to drive an Audi A-6. We live kinda out in the country, closest store is a 20 minute drive, no street light or many people, but we do live in a subdivision of about 50 houses. All nice homes with 1 acre lots, tons of room, but almost no one has a fence. I'm a house that has a fence. Our neighborhood is gated, I never thought we needed the fence and wanted to tear it down. Now I'm glad for it. It's such a safe place though, where kids can play and run around the neighborhood with one another with zero fear from parents. Doors can be left unlocked and if your garage door gets left up, you'll wake the next morning with zero fear that all the bikes were stolen.

Well last night that all changed. While we were all asleep someone or a few someones broke into several houses and cars. And not just stealing TV's and stuff. Nope, those things were left behind for the most. They broke in and took pictures, drivers licenses, birth certificates and social security cards. While people were in their houses asleep WITH THEIR CHILDREN!! Do you know how frightening that is to me. That someone could of just walked straight into my house while myself and my children were here asleep. I mean it makes me sick to think about.

It also makes me sick to think that these don't sound like some just run of the mill break ins. People looking for easy things to pawn. No this was calculated, they were looking for specific things. Things to steal peoples identity. Or to even sell to others. That is so scary, that can ruin your credit and take years to clear up.

My husband is on week 3 of being out of town, which makes it worse for both he and I. He's scared for us and I'd feel better if he were here. The real freaky thing is that at 11 pm last night as I was drifting, I sat bolt straight up in bed and thought "YOU DIDN'T SHUT THE GARAGE DOOR! SOMEONE COULD WALK RIGHT IN!" So I got out of bed, and checked, sure enough it was wide open. I closed that and preceded to lock all 4 doors in my house that were unlocked. I seriously think someone was watching out for us last night!

So tonight we are Fort Knox. Doors are double checked and locked, all windows have been checked and both dogs get the run of the house tonight, instead of being crated in the office, just as a warning to anyone who might try to break in.