Locked out!!

I have learned a very valuable lesson today. It all started when I took my parents dog out to use the potty. The boys were sitting in front of the TV watching Caillou...very entertaining to them. I thought I heard something at the door but did not pay much attention to it because what could they possibly get into while i took the short 20 steps back to the house. EVERYTHING is the answer. As I pushed the door open it clanked and I ran right into it, face first along with the dog. I looked in the small 2 inch crack in the door and saw Jackson and Carter both on the bench beside the door.I looked up to them and that is when I was it. The chain on the door was latched. I panicked. They don't make keys to unlock chains. And it was no ordinary chain lock...it was a maze lock. As hard as he tried, Jackson just could not get it open! So I remembered the extra key to the back door on the porch...I ran to the back door after instructing the boys to meet me there so I could see them at all times. I jerked open the cabinet and my heart sank to my stomach when I saw the place where the key was supposed to be was empty. I would have cried but Jackson was scared enough and I had to hole it together. I asked Jackson to get my cell phone and hand it to me through the crack in the door. He did!! So I called my hero, the answer to my prayers, the man with all the answers...my dad!! He did not have a key to the back door and had no clue where the extra one was. Once again I panicked! The next best thing to my dad is...thats right my mom! So I call the school and had her pulled out of her weekly teachers meeting for an emergency phone call (not such a good idea to tell them it was an emergency, she was panicked running down the steps at the school to get to the phone. She told me to just kick the door open and call her back in a few mins. Why didn't I think of that, kick the door in...that was easy. After the first two or three kicks, I realized that I do not have a TV prop door and it was not going to just fall over and play dead. It had been almost an hour that I had been locked out away from my kids and I had not set my eyes on them in a few mins. I looked around knowing that all of my neighbors were working and expecting no one to be home. To my surprise there was one garage door open a few houses down...some one that we knew well. So, with dog in tow, I ran down the street to the open door and he was standing in the garage very shocked to see me. He looked even more shocked when I asked for a saw zaw, and then the look of panic when I told him that the boys had locked me out of the house via chain. He ran down to save the day and in about 30 seconds the door was open. Praise the Lord for good neighbors. Needless to say, the boys and I had a very long chat about not playing with the door locks..ever!!!