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Changing viewpoints
Aug. 21st, 2008 06:05 amIt's funny, how this ceiling thing has changed things. Or shifted them. Or something.
As a mommy, I feel like I'm a mix of laid back and cautious. Maybe every parent is.
But certain things that I used to be laid back about, now I'm kinda freaked about. I'm trying to keep an intellectual grip on this. The reasons I didn't worry too much about those things was because they were so incredibly unlikely to happen.
For instance, during last school year, if The Barbarian woke up incredibly early, I did not hesitate to run her out to day care and come back to the house while AG33 was still asleep. I was only gone 30 minutes, maybe less. We live in a safe neighborhood. I wouldn't leave the dryer or dishwasher or anything running while I was gone. I would leave AG33 a note about when I left and when I expected to be back and wrote down my cell phone number there, in case he needed to call me while I was gone. But on these outings he almost never even woke up while I was out.
You can see where I'm going with this.
Ceilings do not fall in. In my entire life, I have never known anyone to have the experience we had, nor has anyone who heard my story said, Oh, that happened to me/someone I know!
The odds are still incredibly low that I need to worry about something bad happening to AG33 if he is alone in the house for a brief time.
And yet.
Also, I have become incredibly suspicious of this place. The masterbedroom floor slopes down in the back. The master bathroom is lower on the tub side than on the sink side. There are flaws in the ceilings on the middle and lower levels, too. I now half expect the outer wall to pull away and collapse in the back, or the bathtub to fall through on the person at the computer, or pieces of drywall to fall down anywhere.
As a mommy, I feel like I'm a mix of laid back and cautious. Maybe every parent is.
But certain things that I used to be laid back about, now I'm kinda freaked about. I'm trying to keep an intellectual grip on this. The reasons I didn't worry too much about those things was because they were so incredibly unlikely to happen.
For instance, during last school year, if The Barbarian woke up incredibly early, I did not hesitate to run her out to day care and come back to the house while AG33 was still asleep. I was only gone 30 minutes, maybe less. We live in a safe neighborhood. I wouldn't leave the dryer or dishwasher or anything running while I was gone. I would leave AG33 a note about when I left and when I expected to be back and wrote down my cell phone number there, in case he needed to call me while I was gone. But on these outings he almost never even woke up while I was out.
You can see where I'm going with this.
Ceilings do not fall in. In my entire life, I have never known anyone to have the experience we had, nor has anyone who heard my story said, Oh, that happened to me/someone I know!
The odds are still incredibly low that I need to worry about something bad happening to AG33 if he is alone in the house for a brief time.
And yet.
Also, I have become incredibly suspicious of this place. The masterbedroom floor slopes down in the back. The master bathroom is lower on the tub side than on the sink side. There are flaws in the ceilings on the middle and lower levels, too. I now half expect the outer wall to pull away and collapse in the back, or the bathtub to fall through on the person at the computer, or pieces of drywall to fall down anywhere.
