FIRE FIRE!!

So last week, the day before Thanksgiving, my morning started out like any other morning. Dylan was out of school so I had all three kids at home. They were still mulling around in their jamies and I had just finished making scrambled eggs for breakfast. I went to get Tryg out of his high chair and since my kitchen was a mess I looked around for a place to put his tray and strategically placed it on the stove but away from the burner that I had just turned off.

I went about my normal business for the morning and it was probably about 30 minutes later, I was sitting at my desk when Dylan starts shouting FIRE FIRE!! I quickly got up and went to the kitchen and there were a lot of very large flames (probably a few feet high) coming from the now melted high chair tray. I quickly picked the tray up and put it in the sink and turned the water on. That didn't seem to help so now I had a fire on my stove and one in my sink. I thought for a second..."I can fill up a mixing bowl with water and try to dump it on the flames" but I was seriously worried that the flames would catch on the cupboards or any of the junk that was laying around near by before I could do that.

I remembered that there was a fire extinguisher in our pantry that came with the house so who knows how old it was. I had no idea what I was doing but managed to point and shoot and thank goodness it worked. Flames were gone, fire alarms were now going off and lots of smelly smoke filled the house as well as an awful mess in my kitchen. I had to shuffle all the kids out to the deck while I opened every window in the house to get the smoke out. Of course, now that I "blog" I thought....better get a picture. So here you go (sorry, I didn't think about taking a picture of the flames)...

My heart was definitely racing and my voice was shaking as I called Mark to tell him what happened. Turns out he had made eggs before work and left the burner on that I placed the tray on :). He felt really bad and came home to help me clean up. That stuff really makes a mess! We spent most of that day cleaning up trying to get ready for Thanksgiving the next day. Good thing I didn't go out to run errands like I was planning. That would have been bad. Luckily nothing was damaged except for the high chair. Here's what's left of the tray. I guess I'm going to need a new one.

Of course looking back at it after the fact....I thought DARN, I should have just called the fire department. By the time they got there half my kitchen would have been destroyed and then I could have gotten a new one! Of course Mark reminded me that we would have had a hefty deductible and our insurance costs would have gone through the roof. Oh well....everyone is safe and our home is in one piece which I'm grateful for just in time for Thanksgiving!