Thursday, February 21, 2008

5 year olds and Microwaves

Maybe its the fact that yesterday was a really long day for me.

Maybe its the fact that I watched a show last night about a man with weird warts all over his body.

Maybe its the fact that as I was watching this show and was dosing off a roach crawled across my bed and my blanket right by my face, completly freeking me out.

Maybe its the fact that as a result of these three things I had horrible dreams last night and felt like things were crawling on me all night long.

So whatever the reasons were, I slept in a little this morning. I woke up at 8:10, noticed that Lana was still asleep and decided to doze a little longer.

Next think I know there is a 5 year old in my face telling me that the microwave won't work.

What? Why 5 year old are you telling me at, Oh look, it is now 8:45 and you woke up sometime and I didn't hear you, that the microwave isn't working.

So I get up, I go potty, I smell something horrible, I walk into the kitchen, it is smokey, the microwave is running, the time is set for over 10 minutes, and there are mini pancakes inside.

I run to the microwave and stop it. I look in the trash and what I see is the horrible burnt pancakes! Who knew that you could literally turn pancakes to a crispy wafer in the microwave?
And now my house is doomed to smell like smoke all day long! Great, I love the house smelling like smoke on a rainy day when I have a lot of cleaning and cooking to get done.

Moral of the story...
don't have long days...
don't watch shows about the wart man...
don't let roaches on your bed...
don't let your 5 year old get up before you...

DO show your 5 year old the 30 second button on the microwave!

Ah the joys of my life!

12 comments:

The Sawyers said...

Summer saw the picture of the burnt pan cakes and said,"MMM. dont those look yummy Mommy?"

Marsha said...

Of course Summer would say that! They match her poor little birthday cake!
I'm sad I didn't get a comment today!

Michelle said...

LOL!! I love that this story came right after your, "Missy's Helpful Cooking Tip". and sorry about last night! gross...the warts and the roach. Hope you have sweet dreams tonight.

Anonymous said...

There was a kid at lunch who tried to cook those individual easy macs where you just add water to the bowl of noodles. The microwave started smoking...forgot to add the water! Yikes!

alli said...

I'm sick. I've got the stomach bug. Andrew does too.

I feel yucky.

I am sad.

I will miss you all tomorrow.

name a star for me.

please oh please invite me to anything and everything y'all do.

you are fabulous.

this is the best pancake story ever.

Stace' said...

Your posts have totally amused me of late!!! Thanks! I needed that laugh today.

I may have made your Christmas gift tonight. Hmmm...

Jeri Tanner said...

Weird, I can actually smell that picture...

Kim said...

I was thinking that same thing and thinking-man, I sure am glad my microwave is too high for my kids to reach. However, sleeping until 8:45 is something that never happens in my house. When we were at Lifeline, one of the girls decided to cook a potato in the microwave and it caught fire. Who knew? I'm excited about today!!

Rachel Garcia, CD(DONA) said...

i love this story. that is awesome.. my favorite part was the roach. that happened to me before.. one of those big ones that come in from outside, oh I couldnt sit on the couch for weeks. lol.

-C said...

To answer your question, yes but it was just for my junior & senior years. I wouldn't know much about the lower levels to tell you about it although some of my friends were in that school all their lives. It worked out great for me because I was pretty self-motivated and ended up only going to school 3 days a week my senior year because I had done so much in my junior year. You'll find my email addy on my profile ... feel free to email if you have specific questions. One of my classmates now teaches at the school we graduated from ... I could hook you up since I keep up w/her on facebook. Is that helpful?

Marsha said...

So which sports car were you? Did you watch "Mrs. Hughes"?

Crissy said...

The wart man - I think I saw that same show. Half man Half tree. It was so sad, I cried.