Dec 13 2008
Another Mosaic Moment: Tim turns off all the lights!
When Tim was about 9 years old, he was getting old enough for me to trust to play outside on his own….. I thought…..
I was pregnant with Garrett at the time and this particular evening I was cooking dinner, or at least I was trying to…. hamburger meat tended to make me very ill… just the site of it… so, I would stir the meat with my eyes closed and I my breath held (so I couldn’t smell it) and Tim was playing in the yard (so I thought).
While I was cooking, all of the sudden Tim came running in the house and had the most guilty look on his face that he has ever had!
He ran through the door, past the kitchen and down the hall to his bedroom before I could even ask anything! I holler down the hallway to him asking what is wrong, and he answers “Nothing”
I start my way down the hall (waddling mind you because I am pregnant after all) to confront the problem, whatever it may be, when all of the sudden there is a knock at the door.
Tim peered out of his bedroom door looking petrified. I asked him what he did wrong and he answered in a very small quiet voice “Nothing”
Knowing way better at this point, I went to answer the door. It was my neighbor and by the look on her face, Tim’s “Nothing” was definitely “Something”
She explained to me that Tim had gone from house to house and switched off every single person’s main breaker to turn off their electricity! (All this time, I thought he was playing in the yard!)
She said that someone had eventually caught him in the act and apparently that was when he ran through the house.
I thanked her, though I was mortified!
I turned off the stove (the smell of the meat was killing me anyway) and for the next hour, Tim and I walked from house to house. I stood out on the sidewalk to watch him and made him knock on each door an apologize to each person for turning off their electricity.
He never did have an explanation as to why he did this! I don’t think he really knew why he was compelled to put over 20 houses in the dark. Today he laughs about it…. I still am not laughing too hard…but maybe one day I will get passed the embarrassment of it all and when he has his own family I will get my wish that I have bestowed upon him ….
I told him I wished he had 10 kids just like him! 
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