Sometimes I'd like to ask God why He allows poverty, famine and injustice when He could do something about it. But I'm afraid God might ask me the same question.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Marc went back to work today and.....,

...he trusted me to be the Mommy of 5 kids left to my own devices....  It is amazing how adding one child can mess with a well established family "groove", it may be a little more difficult to find our new routine since the kids are all out for summertime, but we will, I know it, we have to... 

It's only noon, other than a small kitchen fire things are going quite well...
Funny thing about a grease fire from mass quantities of chicken nuggets.... when you open the door to the toaster oven to put out the fire, it fans the flame and it only gets worse... So I threw a whole box of baking soda on it and it did the trick.  Then the smoke alarm went off and freaked out the Mina and Finn.  Pandemonium, if only for a moment. (Don't worry baby, it is all under control now, we needed a new toaster oven anyway, didn't we?)

4 comments:

Mommy said...

Oh my! I might want to rethink the Chief's immediate return to work. :-) Glad you guys are OK.

M

Hebnix said...

That's a great story! I love it... I'm really glad that everyone is OK, but really hilarious!

chksngr said...

Ok...first of all what presense of mind to throw the baking soda on it...I'm not sure I would have been calm enough to remember where the heck the baking soda IS. Second of all, knowing your love for clean counters, this must have just been not fun! :-) Glad you are all ok! So sorry that the babies had a fright...fire alarms are NEVER fun!

Anonymous said...

I did the same thing ended up throwing it out my back door while on fire, I am no longer using a toaster oven.
You have a beautiful family.