Yesterday, at 3:31 am, while attempting to heat a cup of water in the dark as I soothed a crying infant, I managed to enable the child lock feature on my beloved microwave and render it completely inoperable. I didn’t even know there was such a thing. This was easily fixed, but not until the following morning when I could actually look up the unlock procedure. No hot water for me until then.
Today, I got up to feed Monster Hands at 2 am and spent a good hour afterward walking in circles through the house, holding her at just the angle she required, until she finally started falling asleep at 3:25. At 3:31, before I could safely put the baby down, the microwave began beeping frantically.
Apparently, when I child locked the microwave 24 hours ago, I also set a “reminder” to commemorate the occasion on its 24 hour anniversary.