I almost had a heart attack just now.
Seriously people. What is the deal?
I was taking a MUCH NEEDED shower and singing quite loudly with Hillsong United, when all of a sudden I started panicking (out of no where). I thought about my 4yo and my 2yo playing in the front room and OMG what if someone knocks on the door and they open it (they know better, but what if) and I am in here in the shower. Then my imagination takes a dark corner down paranoia lane and my heart picks up pace as I think about a man coming to the door and taking advantage of the situation. I start looking at the door half expecting someone to come walking in. My imagination is MOST unpleasant at times, okay, most times. So, I yelled my 4yo’s name several times to see what they were doing. She comes walking in the bathroom in her underwear, a beanie on her head and a purse on her shoulder. Nice. There was no danger after all.
Whew.
She skipped out of the room while I rejoined my bff’s, Hillsong, in another worship song. Not 30 seconds later my 4yo comes running in yelling that someone just rang the doorbell. WHAT THE CRAP?!? I told her DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR. Then realized my 2yo was in the front room and she might possibly open the door. I told my 4yo to go tell her sister to NOT OPEN THE DOOR. Real panic set in as I rinsed (kinda) the soap out of my hair and reached for a towel when my 4yo came back in telling me she saw a truck and a man at the door. “Did you open the door?!?” I was in FULL PANIC MODE now. She said she hadn’t but I jumped (gracefully I might add) out of the shower and threw my oversized housecoat on and ran to the front. They hadn’t opened the door, but I KNEW that the man knew someone was home, with all the yelling. I saw a FedEx truck parked outside, and felt some relief. I answered the door in all my dripping glory and tried to dry the water dripping off my face and nose to take the package. He was bewildered, to say the least, at my stunning appearance. He said, “I’ll hurry so you can get out of the cold since you are wet.” Uh, you think? My hand was shaking while I signed my name, and it wasn’t because I was cold. I made it back inside before the water dripping off my nose turned into an icicle.
I am absolutely POSITIVE this is what I looked like:
Mmmm-Hhmmm.
I survived yet another wonderful ordeal that sums up my life.
Geeeez.
that was funnY!
Oh man… Anne of Green Gables.
There is no way you looked like the girl in the pic. You look much better than her! See I told you that you should take a shower last night.
yes baby, you were right….I knew there was a reason I only take showers at night when the kids are asleep. NEVER again during the day!!!
…and you are really sweet…bias…but sweet!! xo
Here’s a test you can do. Tell the kids you’re going to work in the back yard. Then about 1/2 hour later walk around to the front and ring the doorbell and see what your kids do. Mine are trained to go without a peep upstairs and wait quietly up there, and that’s exactly what they do. But whatever you want them to do, make sure they do it by testing them.
Of course, mine are getting to the age where i do leave them at home alone for brief periods of time.
Girl you know I am right there with you!! So scary! I have to take showers at night when the kids are sleeping too. Like Heather said, total Anne of Green Gables! =)
I’m glad I’m not the only one with a crazy imagination!
You would not be the first to have those panicky thoughts. When my nephew was just 2yo, he was tall enough and strong enough to open the steel front door of my sis’ home. So, she ended up installing one of those swinging arm locks (name?) up high where he couldn’t reach without a chair. Perhaps that might ease your mind?
That made me laugh – thank you for that. I also can take something small and end with my kids being kidnapped or choking while I am out for 5 minutes… I think that our imaginations about what could happen also help us keep our kids safe too. (or at least that is my excuse so that I don’t think I am losing it)
hehehehehehe……sigh
I laugh because it was like watching a similar situation come to life before my eyes that I have been through
I will say that I am working with Luchen on this…..I beg and yell for them to not open the door cause they never know who is there…..Luchen likes to do this in his underwear and scare the Mormons half to death…..hehehehehe
I bet you totally looked like that
My kids have actually let people in, super freaky!