Home remodel projects that (almost) fall on your head!

fishymom
Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:27:44 +0000

Oh my, I’m so glad you are ok! We had something similar happen years ago. We had just moved into our house and my husband had the mirror in the master bathroom propped up on top of the backsplash. He had taken down an old mirror that was peeling from behind and this was the new mirror that had yet to be installed. My 9 yr old son and my daughter, who had just turned 3, were in my bedroom watching tv. I was in the family room talking to a friend on the phone when I hear this horrendous crashing sound.

I ran into the bathroom to see my daughter sitting on the vanity, broken glass everywhere. The moment she sees me, she jumps down and runs to me, across the floor that was covered in glass, as I am yelling, no! I grabbed her, she is screamimg bloody murder, and I yell to my son to grab towels from the linen closet in my bedroom. I remember thinking to myself that I had to speak slowly and calmly to him because she was hysterical and he was sobbing. I told him that I was going to turn around and I wanted him to gently wrap a towel around whichever foot was bleeding the most. I turned around and he didn’t move. I said, “Son, you must do this. Wrap the towel around her foot.” He said in this tiny voice, “Mommy, she’s not bleeding”.

I put her down on the bed to look at her and there was not a drop of blood on her. She had a tiny scratch on her ankle, but nothing else. I remember I just stood there, shaking. I could not believe my own eyes.

It took me a half hour or more to clean the mess up. Even with gloves on, I had little cuts and scratches all over my hands and arms. But my baby, who had jumped off the vanity onto the glass covered floor and then run across it to me, had only a teeny, tiny scratch. None of us will ever forget that day.