The journey between here and there

The hot shower relaxes and soothes my nerves. It’s refreshing and lulling to my senses. I’m comfortable and happy as I wrap myself in the fuzzy towels and walk out of the bathroom. Joshua bursts into my room looking sad.

“What’s the matter Josh?” I ask.

“I did something bad and I think you’re going to be mad at me!” he says in a panicked voice.

“What did you do?”

“I did something bad.”

“What?”

“Just come see.”

“No, just tell me cuz I still have to get dressed. What did you do?”

“It’s really, really bad and I’m going to get in trouble.”

“Joshy I’m losing my patience. What did you do? I can’t fix the problem if you don’t tell me what happened.”

“I put something in the plug in downstairs ” he sobs.

“WHAT!?! Are you ok? Show me where!”

I race downstairs in my towel. As I reach the main floor I can smell a little smoke.

Sure enough there are 2 huge paper clips sticking out of the socket. *SIGH*

“Josh did you get shocked? Did they sting your fingers?”

“No!” he wails.

“Joshua don’t stick things in the electrical socket you can start a fire or electrocute yourself! Buddy you can die from doing this! We love you and we’d be very sad if you died! Promise me you’ll never do this again!”

“I promise!” he wails.

I quickly touch the two paper clips to see if there is still power in the socket. Sparks and flames burst out of the socket. Yep, still power.

I frantically call Ryan to figure out what to do. He’s off having a massage again so I can’t get through. I race downstairs to the basement and turn off all the power in the house.

I pull out the paper clips then grab all the socket covers I can find and plug them into every open socket. Ryan didn’t replace them after he painted the house. That was the plug that I plug the vacuum into so I didn’t put a safety plug in there cuz I thought we had warned the kids enough times to stay away from them. I obviously thought wrong.

I swear we have little guardian angels watching over our kids. I was freaked out and very grateful that Josh didn’t get shocked badly….

I went upstairs to get dressed. I looked in the mirror and wouldn’t you know it… a white hair…. *sigh* It’s the stress.