FIRE FIRE

I am going to document this so that one day when my kids tell me I look old I can remind them of incidents like these that have aged me...

Last week I had the enormous task of looking after all three boys by myself for 7 whole days whilst Damien flitted off to the states for a wedding. (Congrats Greg and Tierns!) Winter has hit us fast and rapidly so early one morning I decided to put on the fire in the lounge to take the chill out of the air. I then quickly rang my mom to say happy birthday. Within a few minutes I saw the kids come running out of the lounge looking like they'd seen a ghost. Dominic especially looked guilty. I then smelt something fishy. Quickly I ran to the lounge and to my horror the boys had put a whole scrabble box onto the fire as well as some of Joshua's toys and of all things MOIST WIPES!!!

After struggling to douse the fire I called the fire brigade to ask them what to do. One wet towel later and the house had been saved!!! My nerves were shot for the rest of the day and I aged about 10 years!!!