This is how I started my day yesterday. After Kaitlynn and I dropped Jackson and Madelynn off to the neighbor we went to the car. I used the clicker to open the car and it was already open. I was a little alarmed. I looked in the van to find stuff scattered all over the place. Someone had broken into the van.
I called 911 to report it and then just stood there dumbfounded. My van was at the end of the driveway under the streetlight. My driveway sits right next to the neighbors driveway and he drives his patrol car home everyday. Yes, I live next to a sheriff deputy who drives his patrol car home every night. Talk about no fear.
I looked around, all the DVDs and most of the Cd's that were in the van were gone. My old cell phone was in the car along with my car charger, gone. The rest of our life in the van just flipped upside down. So I filed the police report and Kaitlynn was terrified. She wouldn't let go of my leg, she asked me if they were going to come back and if they could get in our house. I had to give her hard answers. I had to tell her I didn't know if they would come back and as long as we locked our house they could not get in. I was angry that I had to tell my 6 year old that.
After dropping her off at school I was thinking about the whole thing we were very lucky. There was no sign of forced entry so I could have left the van unlocked, so not like me. There was no damage to the van that I would have to pay for. There were a lot of things they did not take. The garage door opener to come back later and rob the house, my prescription sunglasses that are expensive to replace. There were a lot of compartments they did not know were there that were never opened. There were some expensive things in the back of the van they did not get. So over all we were very lucky.
Thinking about it later, there was no item that could not be replaced or that I will die without. What they did take was my daughter's security. That I will have to work on. But maybe it will be to my advantage to remind her, there are bad people in the world and listening to Mommy and Daddy will help keep you safe.
More importantly I learned a few things I felt I should share:
-If your car is broken into the damage to the car gets claimed on your car insurance, and personal items stolen are to be claimed on your home owner's or renter's insurance (renter's make sure you have insurance).
-If your cell phone and charger are stolen make sure you report it to your carrier but did you know that your charger has a serial number on it? I didn't.
-Every once in a while my kids play with my keys, get in the habit of using your clicker to lock your car one last time before you go to bed. No excuses the clicker works from inside your house.
-If you have a Nextel did you know that both your phone and sim card have separate serial #'s on them.
After talking it over with Phil there were a few movies that were just the cases and not the movies so the thieves got just the empty cases. The Cd's they stole were mostly burned Cd's or empty cases. They left my Christian Cd's and the burned Cd's they did steal were mostly Christian music on them.
The part about the break in that made me smile the most was when my four year old son said, "Ya know what Mommy I hope the bad people that stole our stuff like it as much as we did."
I can't take it heaven with me anyway so they can just keep.
TTFN~
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