Moments ago, as the bathroom experienced an extremely rare, empty moment during the great bath hand-off (switching from Oliver to Evie), the heavy glass dome on the ceiling light worked itself loose and crashed to the ground. A big heavy glass dome gets a lot of speed falling from our super-high ceilings, and the destruction was loud, swift, and total.

I couldn’t help but think that, had it fallen two minutes earlier or two minutes later, someone in my family would be dead. (Sara says it probably wouldn’t have killed the adults at least, maybe only knocked us unconscious)

As it was, no harm, no foul, and we even have a spare globe in the basement. Makes me want to tighten all the rest of the lights though! Maybe we’re safe; I’m assuming that this one was particularly likely to come loose, since every time the upstairs neighbor flushes the toilet it sounds like someone dropped a bowling ball right above that light.

Watch your heads!