Embarrassing Moment

Ella has been known to escape. She sits in her bedroom window that faces the street and when she sees kids outside playing she has gone right out the front door without my knowing about it-the deadbolt doesn't stop her. We quickly got a chain for the door and it hasn't been a problem since.
Until today. I put Kash down for a nap and put Ella in her room for "quiet time" and laid down myself. I was exhausted, I didn't sleep well the night before and wasn't feeling too great so I was hoping for a little nap.
Probably about an hour later I woke up to the doorbell ringing....I decided to ignore it and hoped it wouldn't wake up the kids. I slowly got out of bed and decided to check on Ella, she had been so quiet maybe she fell asleep as well. I couldn't find her. Anywhere.
Then I heard a voice from the garage door that leads into the laundry room. "LINDSAY????" It was a voice I didn't recognize. I ran downstairs to find a lady I had never seen before standing in my garage( how was the garage door open?) with her teenage daughter. The daughter had Ella on her hip. What the!!!!
"Um is this your daughter?" Oh my gosh I wanted to die. This sweet neighbor I had not met had found Ella near her home and gone door to door to try to find out where she lived!! She explained to me that she noticed her and thought she was waiting for the kids to get out of school (we have an elementary on the next street) but realized that wasn't the case and got a little worried. She finally found a neighbor on my street who told her where we lived and that my name was Lindsay, and encouraged her to poke her head in the door and check things out! She was worried I had passed out or something! Why else would my 3 year old be roaming the neighborhood by herself? Something must be terribly wrong, right? Ummmm or her awesome mom was napping!
I cannot tell you how embarrassed I am. I am also so very grateful to know we have such sweet neighbors that are looking out for each other, even if they don't know who you are!
She told me how Ella had told her that she opened the garage herself, she just pushed the big button. So we have discovered the hard way that she can indeed open the garage! We will be getting a lock tomorrow for sure. I just don't know what to do with this girl, she is, to say the least, a handful.
What a great first impression I made huh? Oh and I didn't even mention what I LOOKED like besides the obvious crazy mom that can't handle her own child. I was in my bath robe, my hair was a tangled mess, and I had NO makeup on besides traces of mascara smudged under my eyes. I really did look like a crazy person. Maybe I am. All I can do is hope that my "I'm sorry" cookies and thank you note helped out a bit. I decided I better go over there, properly introduce my family, and make sure they met Kash, so they know where to return him the next time he escapes as well.