Today, I am thankful that Jake and Scott didn't set the backyard (and the house for that matter!) on fire this afternoon.
They were making match rockets (or so they say) on the back patio this afternoon while I was running errands.
Boys sometimes!!!
I'll never understand the facination with fire and rockets and such.
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This reminded me of the night before Thanksgiving 11 years ago...
Jake was four; Scott 2.
Elisabeth and I were in my bedroom watching t.v. when the smoke alarm went off. Of course I jump up and ran into the kitchen/dining area just to find a
fire in my oven!
I was baking a chicken for dinner and the boys had propped open the oven door with a plastic Happy Meal bucket (the kind they used to pass out at Halloween). They had been throwing all kinds of things into the oven -- plastic silverware, napkins, stocking cap, toys, mittens, sweatshirt...you name it, it was probably in there!
Flames were coming out of the oven and those little boys still kept throwing things in! I don't know how they didn't get hurt. I shut the oven door, turned off the oven, grabbed the kids and headed to the neighbor's to call 911. We were all okay but my house was full of ashes and I no longer had an oven or stove.
I'll never understand why they would do something like this.
At that house, we had a wood burning stove so maybe they thought it was cool when Lee started a fire in it? We'll never know. To this day Jake or Scott don't remember doing it. But coming home this afternoon to see them lighting matches and laughing brought this memory back. Luckily, no fire today.
I'm thankful for that!
4 comments:
I am also thankful for that as well. I remember the oven fire incident. It was scary. My bros are pretty silly.
match rockets are the best. really they are. thure pretty much amazing. you should try it out sometime... and i dont think fascination with fire is just a boy thing... i kind of like it too
Little boys do crazy things. My brother and his friends decided to turn our neighbors brand new car into a trampoline. After they got tired of that they found some rocks and found another neighbor's house and threw rocks at the garage and dented it. My parents were thrilled beyond measure! (Ha!)
I wonder if I should hang on to the desire to have a boy one day. I am starting to think twice.......
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