_______-proof

In honor of my mom's visit last weekend:

mom-proofing your apartment vs. baby-proofing your house

mom-proofing (in the case of me):

• finding a place to put 42 empty beer bottles that I still want to take to refund my bottle deposit (it's $2, whatever)
  
• making photos of my family (namely her) more prominent
  
• the flipside to this is hiding "incriminating" photographs, including my favorite polaroid of eric and robert
  
• attempting to hide anything that might start a conversation (failed attempt. she will always find something to comment on: why did you move the rolling rack with your fancy dresses on it? because i felt like it... oh, is that your bike? do you ride it? not in the winter... i see you've rearranged your furniture. wow, you have eyes etc.)
  
• concealing 50% of the contents of my bathroom because she clearly always has something to say about the things I use
  

I think about all of this effort in preparation for a 2-day visit, and feel obliged to compare it to what she must have had to do before I showed up:

• eliminating sharp corners
  
• blocking off electrical plugs, cords, etc.
  
• using those gates to block off the stairs

Ok...it turns out, I don't know very much about baby-proofing an apartment...I'll just assume that I did more. ha.