Home Is Not Always the Safest Place

This morning, I came home from walking the dog with Scarlett to find our coffee thermos on the kitchen floor, with the inner insulation layer shattered to pieces all over the floor. #$$%^&, I muttered. I'll have to get it cleaned up right away and somehow, kept Scarlett away from it. So I grabbed her snack trap and gave it to her to keep her pre-occupied, then tried to barracade the kitchen with stools and chairs to keep her from coming into the kitchen. If she really wanted to however, she can just push the stools aside and get in. Of course since I've done that, she's even more curious about the accident scene. So as I vacuumed and wiped the floor at least 100 times over to try and get every small shard of glass, I had to yell with my sternest voice to keep her from coming into the kitchen. Whether she understood "no, stay there!" or not, I was grateful she got the point and didn't challenge me too much, aside from putting her limbs over the stool leg. I shudder at the thought of having to do this if I had 2 young ones. There were many times when I had to clean up a spill or Scarlett's vomit while trying to keep her away from it and it was always challenging and frustrating. How do stay-at-home moms with 3 or 4 kids running around do it all? And, is it always the safest at home, when you can't always walk away from the hazard and leave it to someone else to clean up?