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26th-Feb-2013 11:06 pm
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I don't recall the whole circumstances, but I ended up staying home with The Kid (who we'd only had custody of for a few months at that point) instead of dropping him off at daycare and heading into work.
At that time, we lived in Wheaton in a house with a detached garage. This was before I'd given up and engaged the services of a lawn care/snow plow service, so I was responsible for clearing the driveway. So, I left The Kid in the house watching TV or some such, and got the snow blower going.
What I'd forgotten was that the house cleaners were due that day. While I was out clearing the driveway, sidewalks (both in front of the house and to the side - corner lot) and the walk between the garage and the back porch, the cleaners showed up and started working. I'm not sure that they even really noticed that there was a five-year-old in the house, nor that I showed up in the middle wearing snow-covered clothes. I, on the other hand was a bit startled to reenter the house only to find people there I didn't know where there.