Closing Doors

We are generally an open doors family. It's just the two of us and the baby, so there's not a whole lot of privacy needed. We sleep with the doors open and some of us (to remain unnamed, but not me) sometimes even leave the bathroom door open. The baby always uses the bathroom with an audience, and at night we leave the door open so we can hear him if he needs us.

Nowadays, with my mother-in-law staying with us, as you can imagine there are a lot more closed doors. All the bathroom doors are always closed, and now we all sleep with bedroom doors closed as well. The first night my mother-in-law left her bedroom door open, but I made M close it for her the next night. Any sound buffer is a good thing, I think, whether it's needed or not it can't hurt. We've brought out the good ol' baby monitor so we can still hear the baby.

It seems like such a small difference but it's a big impact. It's an existential thing; before the house was free-flowing, open, and our little family was never cut off from each other. Now it's stagnant in some areas and we spend a lot of time cut off from each other by all of these doors.