We just had an alarm company in to set us up with a home alarm system.
The way this house is designed, it's built into a hill. You walk in at the front and you're on the upstairs level. There's only one entry point to outside on the upstairs level (the front door) and everything else, because the hill drops steeply, ends up being 2 stories high from the ground outside Then you go downstairs which has multiple windows and doors opening to the outside further down the hill.
Currently we're all sleeping on the upstairs level, where there are 3 bedrooms. There are 3 more bedrooms downstairs and the children are all going to move down there shortly. The baby will be in with us for the first few months but the nursery is going to have to be downstairs so she'll have to go down there. At the same time we'll also put Dylan down there ...... with Harry staying upstairs for a while longer until he's fully toilet trained.
I have felt extremely uncomfortable about putting the kids downstairs on another floor and the idea that someone could break in down there unknown to me has scared me - so I'm thrilled that we've ordered an alarm system! Nobody will be getting in now and I can sleep knowing they'll be safe... and when they get older, not escaping outside in the night either, lol. I'll also sleep better when G is not here at night.
Posted by katie at April 28, 2007 02:31 PM