These were the words I heard...but let me back up a bit.
It was right after school, with only a few days left in the school year I was exhausted with end of the year parties and preparation. I was home with only my two youngest...ages four and seven. I did what all good working moms do when they need a break...
I set them in front of the television so I could find a few minutes of peace and quite while I looked through my mail in my bedroom.
That's when it happened...My seven year old came into my room with a slightly panicked look on her face. "Umm...Mom? There's a problem. There's smoke all over the kitchen!"
Needless to say I ran to the kitchen and boy, was she ever right!! There were also flames in the microwave!! I yelled for her to grab her little sister and go out the front door and wait for me. Amazingly, under pressure, she obeyed immediately. I opened up the microwave door and the flames went out, to see three very charred pancakes on one very melted plastic plate!! I grabbed a towel and then grabbed the plate and took it outside and threw it on our b-b-que...and went in to open up all the windows and doors and turn on every fan in the house. Do you know how aweful smoke from melting plastic smells? No? Then come on over because I'm not sure I will EVER get that smell out of my house!!
Turns out the four year old was trying to warm up pancakes (left over from my end of the year pajama party at school) and she punched in what she thought was 10 second and turned out to be 10 minutes!! I am NOT...for those of you wondering...in the habit of letting a four year old use the microwave alone! I DO let her push the buttons when I use it so she thought she had it handled...and I did, after all, tell them not to come bug me until their show was over unless it was an emergency...pancakes are apparently not and emergency until they are burning!! LOL!!
All's well that ends well I suppose but boy, oh boy, that was an adrenaline rush for the day. If anyone has any thoughts on getting the smell out of my house let me know!! 
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Umm...Mom? There's a problem...
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Thursday Thirteen
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1. West Allis, Wisconsin. 2. Tujunga, California. 3. The OC (Orange County, California). 4. La Mirada, CA. 5. The OC, CA (different location). 6. Wynnewood, PA. 7. Bellflower, CA. 8. Santa Ana, CA. 9. Julian, CA. 10. Bellflower, CA (again). 11. San Clemente, CA. 12. Phoenix, AZ (in two different locations). 13. Peoria, AZ. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! |
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Ever Wonder What a Dust Storm looks like?
Well, here it is!! This is the WALL of dust that entered the Valley this evening causing havok for drivers and leaving a mess everywhere! It's very unusual for us to have these kinds of storms this time of year...they are more typical in late summer or early fall.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
The Myth of the Exploding Pop Can!!
Definitely NOT BUSTED!! 
Here in Arizona we like to welcome summer with temperatures nearing 110 (it gets hotter...this is just the beginning!!) Well, there are several things you just don't leave in your car on a hot not quite summer day...soda is one of them. This can was in an unopened 12 pk box of soda...it became a ROCKET! It was upside down in the box and it ripped open the box and hit the roof of my car with a noise loud enough we thought it was a gunshot!! My kids being the avid Mythbusters fans that they are, wanted to write to them and tell them it's NOT BUSTED, as they claimed...They also wanted to reproduce the entire experiment for their Science Project next year...we'll see, maybe if we use DADDY'S CAR!!!
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Memories of Another Sort...
We lost you in May...
Five years ago.
You are a precious little life that cannot,
nay, will not
be forgotten.
You are my son.
I love you dearly. I miss you still.
You are with Jesus.
I look forward to the day I will hold you in my arms.
Until then, baby, know I love you!!
Love,
Mommy
To read more about baby Issac, read "Memorial Day" by clicking here
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Memorial Day
Take some time this weekend to remember the brave men and women who are fighting for our country, even now, in Iraq, and other places. If it were not for them we might not be a free country!**********************************
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service.
Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war). It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 - 363) to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis' birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.
Traditional observance of Memorial day has diminished over the years. Many Americans nowadays have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At many cemeteries, the graves of the fallen are increasingly ignored, neglected. Most people no longer remember the proper flag etiquette for the day. While there are towns and cities that still hold Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some people think the day is for honoring any and all dead, and not just those fallen in service to our country.
But what may be needed to return the solemn, and even sacred, spirit back to Memorial Day is for a return to its traditional day of observance. Many feel that when Congress made the day into a three-day weekend in with the National Holiday Act of 1971, it made it all the easier for people to be distracted from the spirit and meaning of the day. As the VFW stated in its 2002 Memorial Day address: "Changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed greatly to the general public's nonchalant observance of Memorial Day."
Previous excerpt taken from the following website...there is more there...go check it out!!
http://www.usmemorialday.org/backgrnd.html
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Thursday Thirteen
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I have... 1. Convinced a family to stay at our school. 2. tucked my children into bed. 3. Given my baby a back-rub and cough medicine. 4. Helped my daughter with her homework. 5. Taken my baby to the doctor. 6. Given her a breathing treatment every night. 7. Paid $40 for the convenience of once a day antibiotics. 8. Stayed home from work to keep my daughter company while she fought a fever. 9. Taken my godson to his OT appointment. 10. Graded a million and one papers (with only a million left to grade!). 11. Celebrated my middle daughter's SEVENTH birthday by getting her ears pierced. 12. Gone to a fabulous women's conference on Saturday. 13. Paid $4 for a Frappaccino and enjoyed every penny's worth. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! |
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