Imagine the music to the song “Burning Down the House” as
you read the title—no we didn’t actually burn down the house, but almost (OK to
be fair to my wife who actually looks as if she is ready to jump through my
body as I wrote “we” it was me who almost burned down the house).
My wife had a slightly rough day at work today and I thought
it would be nice to have the house smelling nicely for when she got home. I took a bottle of potpourri we got for
Christmas and emptied the contents into a pot and put it on the stove—it was
smelling great as I let the pot simmer for about 2 hours but it was close to
the time to get my wife and the water in the mixture was gone so I added some
water and then turn it up to high and let it quickly come to a boil before
turning it off to get my wife.
Well… my 4 year old decided he was hungry so I quickly fixed
him some chicken nuggets so we could get out of there. As luck would have it I forgot about the pot
and out the door we went. My wife had
some work to get done when we got to the school so we were all at the school
for about 1 hour before heading home.
One fun note of something else that happened today… I cut my
own hair and did that earlier this morning.
Well… my 4 year old watched me cut my hair today. While at the school my wife was working on
her stuff and said: “I hear scissors cutting hair, did Tim just cut his hair” I
couldn’t tell right away but sure enough he cut a big chunk missing from his
hair. To make it better his 8 year old
brother decided to take a little chunk out of his own hair (but his was not
very noticeable).
Anyway… back to getting home—my wife was the first one in
the door and said: “something smells like it’s burning.” It didn’t even dawn on me yet, I just thought
she was smelling the potpourri, but as I entered the house I could smell it
to. As we rounded the corner into the
kitchen we could see the haze through the house and then saw the stove… still
on high… all water out of the mixture and probably ready to burst into flames at
any moment (literally may have been a few minutes away).
In fact when I put the pot under the water the whole pot
filled up and was still steaming as the liquid cooled the pan. Needless to say I came closer than I have yet
to burning down the house. To make
matters worse when we went to karate I left an electric frying pan on—didn’t
have anything on it, but it stayed HOT.
Anyway… as far as food goes today we had quinoa millet with
maple and some toast (with our bread) and our favorite morning juice. Lunch was eggs cooked in butter with salt and
pepper over quinoa mixed with avocado over a HUGE spring salad all topped with
our favorite salsa mixture mmm mmm mmm.
Dinner was quick again because my sons karate—refried beans
from Trader Joe’s covered with home-made guacamole in a rice tortilla covered
with our awesome salsa.
My wife had a rough day and I almost burned down the house
(twice) but overall… I would say it was a good day—I just hope this
absentmindedness I’ve felt today doesn’t continue.
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