Do you ever have moments when your mind and brain just work in opposite directions?  As I get older it seems to happen more often and in particular it happened the other night and involved my husband.

One of my children wanted to kip in with me, so my husband said he would have their room to give me more space.  When I actually went to bed one of my other children had been scared by a noise outside and had also crept in to be with me.  No problem, still enough room for me.

I went to bed and left it to my husband to lock up downstairs.

I was just dozing off when I suddenly remembered that the back door had been open.  I sat up and shouted out loud "Have you locked the back door?".  I then realised that neither of my two children would actually know this, I had just forgotten they were in with me.

I jumped out of bed, went to where my husband was sleeping and without a thought shouted out to him "have you locked the back door?".

As I thought he had just come to bed and wasn’t asleep I was thrown when he said back to me "what about the laptop?". 

I hadn’t realised he was in a deep sleep, therefore woken him up and had confused him completely. 

Especially as we don’t even have a laptop!