Learning As I Go: How did you get in here?

One day last week, we left for school, as we do every other day. The boys turned off the lights in each room and I locked the doors. I dropped them off at school and went about my day.  After school pick-up at the end of the day, we checked the mail and drove the bumpy dirt road to our house. I unlocked the back door and we all toted our handfuls into the living room. There was movement in the recliner. We froze.  “Poofy! You scared me,” Carter reached for the white and black cat. �