Posted by HippeeGem
Ok here goes. This was my day, lol. I was at work by 5 am today. My kids usually manage to get themselves up for school without me. My 20 year old Aries was off work today. Pisces daughter is the last to leave at 7:30.
She was upstairs getting ready, and my 16 year old Taurus overslept and missed the bus.
She heard him yelling at my Aries to wake up there's a fire. She ran downstairs and my Aries was in her room, and yelled at her to get the fire extinguisher.
I wasn't homes but apparently she had a lot of things plugged into one outlet including a space heater, and it caught a big stuffed animal on fire, and they said it was higher than her bed right next to it, about 4 feet high.
The rug is destroyed in they spot, part of the wall is black, but they contained it quickly, thankfully.
So my problem is, no one freaking called me ar work to tell me what happened.
And I'm also having major anxiety thinking about this all day (since I got home at 3 pm and finally learned about it), knowing how close we came to actual devastation. It was right next to my daughter's bed. What if this happened at 3 am while everyone was asleep? What if my Taurus didn't miss the bus to hear the smoke alarm the Aries was sleeping through and my Pisces didnt hear because she was blow drying her hair upstairs?
I'm mentally drained from what could've happened and this scared the butter out of me.
I'm proud of my kids for handling it well, the Aries tried getting it out with a pillow, he said he went into fight or flight mode, and now he has a burn on his arm :/ Then he used the fire extinguisher to get it out.
So part of my problem can't be solved. Things happen and I'm just a tight wound ball of anxiety right now, but also really relieved this didn't happen when we all weren't home, which happens a lot, or when they were asleep.
But my problem is, they didn't even call me at work. I got one text at 1 pm saying there was an incident, when will you be home mom? And that was it.
I'm just shaken up honestly. Idk what my question is. I want them to let me know what the hell is going on always.
And right now they're all just laughing and playing a game together like this wasnt a scary as all hell day. I dont get it? I'm so relieved but seriously not ok.
That was a real close call, please have your kids make sure they remove unused electronics before they go to sleep because overbearing the outlets is so hazardous. Maybe they didn’t want to tell you because they were worried you’d get upset or they’d get in trouble plus they thought they were able to handle it well. Maybe make it clear to them that next time no matter what happens under your roof to inform you as soon as they've handled it instead of later. They could also just be growing up and feel they don't need to let their mom in on everything and give her that extra stress even though I think that's something pretty serious. Kids bounce back from those things, their time to stress will come soon enough when they walk out into the adult world and become parents themselves :p I hope you hugged them and lectured them about taking the appropriate fire safety precautions when you got home.