A Furry Intruder

It was Saturday morning. It seemed like a normal enough, lovely weekend day to me. Dan had left very early for a short morning flight, and I looked forward to taking him out for his birthday later in the afternoon. The girls and I had breakky at the table... nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

It wasn't until Dan got home at about 10am, that I found out there had been a noisy, theiving creature clambouring about our kitchen in the night!
The conversation went something like this:
A: Did you sleep well last night? Did you wake up both times Annika woke up? (Yes, I often ask my husband too many questions to answer at once. It's not meant to be an interrogation. It's more of a - choose your own conversation starter!)
D: Yeah, alright. No, Annika didn't wake me up. But the possum did.
A: what, on the roof?
D: No, in our kitchen! Bangin' around... didn't  you hear it?

I did not.

The moral of the story is, Dad sleeps through baby crying, but is out of bed and on his sleepy feet the moment there's a sound like someone (or something) who doesn't belong in the house. While Mum hears every noise the baby makes, but sleeps desperately through everything else! It's as if my subconscious shouts at me: If we don't have to feed it, it's not worth waking up for!

Apparently, someone had left the laundry window open while the dryer was running , and at that blissful moment of bedtime, had forgotten to shut said window. Thus the window was a doorway through the laundry and into our kitchen, for small and hungry beasts.

It was stealthy, I'll give it that. It took an apple. Nothing else on the table was out of place - and there was a lot, in piles, on the table! There were a lot of apples in the fruit bowl. The little critter couldn't be bothered with the banana or the avocado - too much work! No claw marks in anything else either, just knew exactly what it wanted and sat there in the bowl munching on it. Until Dan came along and chased it away, with the rest of its unfinished treat clenched firmly in teeth. Back out the window.
I laughed :)
Yes, we are much more careful now (again!) to check every window is closed before sleeping.

And on a completely different note - the rest of the day was wonderful. yes, we enjoyed the planetarium very much - nerds that we are! Dan loved it, and though I'm not a very smart nerd when it comes to science, I thouroughly enjoy being awed and amazed by the wonders of our universe, and being made just a little bit dizzy thinking about all the things I don't understand. But most of all, it was just wonderful to be on a date- hand in hand, chatting and whispering and laughing....just like the young kids in love we were 10 years ago...only completely different.