Is Anyone Safe?

The scariest thing just happened! And of course I felt the need to blog about it right away! :) I was sitting in the living room playing with James when I heard a quick knock and then our front door opened. I popped around the corner to see who it was (I generally tell friends and family no need to knock - just come on in) when I saw a strange man standing about 5 feet into our house. The following conversation occurred:

Me: "Hello?" (with a very puzzled / I'm sure a little startled look on my face)

Strange Man: "Oh ...(looking a little surprised to see me as well)...do you have some construction going on here...?"

(Currently our front yard is down to the dirt as we are in the middle of re-doing the landscaping.)

Me: "Yes, well some yardwork. (looking like duh - look around dude!)

Strange Man: "Oh...(stuttering on his words) I just saw a car driving by the house, stopping and looking at the house."

Me: "Well I don't know about that. What kind of car was it? (thinking why are you still standing in the middle of my front room?)

Strange Man: "It was a white Acura."

Me: "Oh yes, that's my husband." (He had just dropped off Raider after the doctor's appt)

Strange Man: "Oh, ok (finally stepping back). Well I just wanted to check if you had construction going on cause I saw the car... I live a couple streets over."

Me: "Where?" (OK seriously why are you in my house?)

Strange Man: "Just on the other side of those houses."

Me: "Ok" (thinking yeah right... or... ok I am pretty flexible but I would have liked to get to know you a little before you just open my door and invite yourself in)

Strange Man: (Now outside - finally!) "You know you should really lock your door, there are a lot of robberies going on."

Me: "Yeah thanks, I will!"

So I locked all the doors and called Micah. He had actually seen the same guy driving closely behind him in a green sedan when he dropped Raider off ,and then when Micah pulled into the driveway the guy did a U turn and went the other way. So Micah thought maybe it was just a paranoid neighbor. I wasn't really satisfied with that answer given that the paranoid neighbor was standing in my living room while I was at home by myself with 2 babies and a cripple :) I got off the phone with Micah and called his Mom to tell her about it when Raider's crutches fell and hit the floor. I swore it was someone coming in the door and freaked out... until Raider informed me his crutches had fallen. About 10 minutes later the front door opened and my heart dropped again but it was Micah - my knight in shining armor!! :) He had rushed home to protect us!!!

It is just scary- I feel like we live in a really safe neighborhood at the back of a big circle that only people on the street would be in. But you just never know. Perhaps it was a paranoid neighbor. Perhaps not. We will definitely be staking out the neighborhood for that green car for sure. But from the girl who always said our door is open - you might have to knock now because it will probably be locked. Let the paranoia begin!