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Jun. 20, 2006
The Strangest Thing Happened
Last Thursday, John left some paperwork he needed at his office. About 9 PM, we decided to take the family out for a drive to retrieve it. He works in a large government building downtown which probably houses more than 100 offices but at 9 PM, about the only people there are security people and janitorial staff. His department is housed on the second floor where there are only a few offices and several large training rooms. He and his 3 colleagues each have desks in a single room.
When we got to the building, Chase was asleep so I stayed in the car and John took the other three up to his office. The room was completely dark and the door was locked just as would be expected at this hour. He unlocked the door, turned on the light and sat down at his desk to sort through the material he needed. The kids wandered around the room, looking at trinkets and pictures on various desk all the while being chided not to touch anything.
A few minutes into their visit, my daughter approached a desk in the back of the room to get a better look at one of the photos. As she came closer, something under the desk caught her eye. A woman was hiding behind the chair. The woman motioned to her to 'shhh' and not knowing what to do, Alyssa turned to walk back to her father's desk. I can only imagine what was going through her head at this time. She had to assume that this woman was up to no good as it was obvious that she had been in a dark room behind a locked door and now she was hiding. Concerned for their safety, Alyssa made sure the baby was a safe distance away. The woman, realizing she was caught, came out of her hiding place and startled the crap out of John as he turned to check on the kids and saw this stranger in the back of the room.
She quickly explained that she was a cleaning lady and she had come up to this room on her break to take a nap as she had a headache. When she heard someone coming, she went under the desk hoping she would not be discovered.
Everyone was on an adrenaline rush as they returned to the van to tell their tale. Thankfully, she was a fairly diminutive woman who posed no real physical threat or things may have gone differently.
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A few years ago, when our oldest was 4 and her two brothers were both in diapers, my in-laws were a few days into a visit from their home 3000 miles away when my father-in-law noticed that the rug under the dining room table was in serious need of vacuuming. He is not prone to domestic duties (his wife is a great housekeeper) but seeing the need, he decided to try his hand with the Hoover. As soon as 'Grandpa' declared his intention to get out the vacuum, four little feet ran for the toy box to get vacuums of their own. We had one toy vacuum and we improvised a second from a 'popper' push toy. The baby, who was not yet walking, was right in the thick of things on all fours, never one to be left out. Grandpa, trying to maneuver the self-propelled 'Wind-tunnel' around the 10 foot rug while avoiding the table legs and dodging his three little helpers, remarked in exasperation, "I just wanted to clean the rug, I wasn't looking to start a three ring circus." Welcome to my life!
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My name is Tiffany. I am a 40 year old mother of 4. My husband, John, and I planned to homeschool even before we married 18 years ago but it would be several years before our oldest would be ready to start on this journey. We had our children in alphabetical order, quite by accident at first, but once we got started, we figured we had to keep it going. They are Alyssa 10, Brendan 9, Chase 6, and Emily 4. Our 4th baby, D, miscarried at 13 weeks. We have no intention of making it to Z.
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