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I Love My Children . . .
Jul. 21st, 2004 09:36 pm. . . even when they scare the ever-lovin' shit out of me.
Okay. Eight'o'clock rolls around. The kids get told to clean up the sunroom. After that, (they finished around eight-thirty or so) they were told to start the bathing process. Puppy gets her bath first. Bear-Cub was busy doing stuff on the computer.
Eight-fortyfive.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
catchild goes back to check on kids. No kids. Anywhere. After three minutes of searching, she goes back to her room, and asks ebonunicorn to please hekp her look for the girls, because she can't find them. Keep in mind that at this point, it is fully dark outside.
At this point, the adults in the house boiled out of their rooms and began a detailed search.louisadkins and I went to double-check the back end of the house, while catchild and ebonunicorn double-checked the living room and sunroom. Dragon headed outside to look. After a minute of searching, I went out the front door to start calling. I saw a flash light down by the pole-barn, which is a good 200 feet away from the house. I heard Dragon reading the riot act to somebody. Kids had been found. I let everyone else know, and we waited for him to bring them back to the house.
They had not only decided to not get ready for bed, they had neglected to let anybody know that they were leaving the house. They are grounded to the house for a to-be-determined period of time. They have been lectured by just about every adult member of the family, including being reminded that we love them, but they still scared us silly.warinbear will more than likely be talking to them about this tomorrow.
I know that just about every kid pulls something like this at some point. I was still scared beyond belief. A lot can go wrong on 52 mostly wooded, mostly wild acres of land in the dark, and I am blessed/cursed with a good enough imagination to have envisioned most of it during that frantic minute of searching.
I probably have a good handful of gray hairs right about now.
Okay. Eight'o'clock rolls around. The kids get told to clean up the sunroom. After that, (they finished around eight-thirty or so) they were told to start the bathing process. Puppy gets her bath first. Bear-Cub was busy doing stuff on the computer.
Eight-fortyfive.
catchild goes back to check on kids. No kids. Anywhere. After three minutes of searching, she goes back to her room, and asks ebonunicorn to please hekp her look for the girls, because she can't find them. Keep in mind that at this point, it is fully dark outside.At this point, the adults in the house boiled out of their rooms and began a detailed search.
louisadkins and I went to double-check the back end of the house, while catchild and ebonunicorn double-checked the living room and sunroom. Dragon headed outside to look. After a minute of searching, I went out the front door to start calling. I saw a flash light down by the pole-barn, which is a good 200 feet away from the house. I heard Dragon reading the riot act to somebody. Kids had been found. I let everyone else know, and we waited for him to bring them back to the house.They had not only decided to not get ready for bed, they had neglected to let anybody know that they were leaving the house. They are grounded to the house for a to-be-determined period of time. They have been lectured by just about every adult member of the family, including being reminded that we love them, but they still scared us silly.
warinbear will more than likely be talking to them about this tomorrow.I know that just about every kid pulls something like this at some point. I was still scared beyond belief. A lot can go wrong on 52 mostly wooded, mostly wild acres of land in the dark, and I am blessed/cursed with a good enough imagination to have envisioned most of it during that frantic minute of searching.
I probably have a good handful of gray hairs right about now.
