Monday, June 15, 2009

this is really the person i leave my children with when i leave the house?!

so last night, around 9:30 pm, when all of my children were still awake, katie decided that she wanted popcorn. tommy was taking care of it, so i continued the important work that i was doing on the computer (reading textsfromlast night and shopping for dresses). apparently, tommy "taking care" of it means he opened the popcorn, put it in the microwave for 5 minutes and went and laid on the couch. about 4 minutes and 55 seconds later, he says to me "is that popcorn still in the microwave?" at this point, i look over at the microwave and see the smoke absolutely POURING from it and blanketing the entire first floor of my house. nice. it was so smokey in here, that we had to put the children outside. when i took the bag from the microwave, there was actually some kind of black liquid leaking from it. eyes were watering, everyone coughing...it was crazy. the smoke alarm NEVER went off (did i mention that tommy is an electrician and my smoke detectors are hard wired in my house in EVERY SINGLE ROOM). that's pretty crazy, you see, because thomas takes a shower, the steam sets off the smoke detector.
this whole situation causes me some concern, as i realize that my children's father has an attention span of less than 5 minutes. who is paying attention when i'm not here? oh, right, no one (as proven HERE).
not to worry about the smoke detector though...as i heated up the oven to make lunch today, it started going off like a mother. so now, i am sitting here with the windows open and candles lit (to get rid of last night's burnt popcorn stench) and the hood fan on and back door open to make the smoke alarm go off now. what do you think my neighbors are thinking?

ps - jack said some of the funniest things i have ever heard last night...he told me he didn't want to eat dinner anymore because he didn't like the chicken nuggets. they were french fries. he then proceeded to say to dennis: "i got two peanut guns and i am a monkey." he then went up to change into pajamas and came down with dennis' christmas fleece mickey mouse pj shirt (jack outweighs dennis by about 25 pounds) inside out and a pair of red lightning mc queen pajama pants. but hey, he dressed himself so it's still a win, right?

15 comments:

  1. lol, that was too funny. our smoke alarms go off when we shower too and i suspect if the house burnt to the ground you'd find five smoke alarms laying in the charred remains with their little red lights still flashing optiomistically

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  2. Ahhhhhhh husbands. Mine uses my Williams Sonoma dishtowels to wipe up messes. Common sense not so much there sometimes. Ohhhhhhhh, in case you were missing the baby days....I woke up to a poop covered baby and crib this morning. Awesome.

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  3. Oh gross! Burnt popcorn is the worst smell in the world!
    I feel the same way about my hubby.. like really, should I really leave these guys alone with you? Of course I do cause I have to get out of the house lol.

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  4. I read in a child psych book that the best thing you can do is leave the father alone with the children for a week!!!

    I still need to try this sometime. My husband is just too big a workaholic to take a week off. Maybe a weekend would be fun :-)

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  6. Burnt popcorn smell is the worst smell evah! In fact, we have a microwave on the backporch for popcorn. People are allowed to eat popcorn inside but they have to pop that crap outside.

    Hope you get rid of the smell this century.

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  7. this is so funny, oh well better you were there at that time, what if not? oh my gosh! maybe you ought to leave the kids with their dad for few days, what do you think?

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  8. I concur with most comments....microwave popcorn smell burnt or not reeks. I can't stand it. The worst is when you are standing in line at the market, and the lady in front of you smells like popcorn and is buying 5 more boxes of it. True story.

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  9. oh there a few worse smells than burnt popcorn (maybe fish or steamed broccoli....) we don't have kids yet, but i fear that the hubs will have the same attention LOL

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  10. Ack! I hate the smell of burnt popcorn. Blech.

    I always worry about leaving the kids with my husband. His attention span is also non-existant.

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  11. That sounds like something my husband would do! And that sounds like an outfit my boys would pick out!! Too funny...You gotta love the daddy's for trying...and sometimes failing miserably!!

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  12. I love the peanut guns....cracks me up! My son calls all meat chicken....steak = chicken, chicken = chicken, turkey = chicken, pork = Florida Chicken. Yeah husband came up with that one! LMAO

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  13. First of all, that frightens me because I can totally see Kevin doing that. He has a freaking BS in math and actuarial science but he manages to do things like that all of the time. Hopefully I'll be home or the fire alarms will work. Beats me how someone so book smart can be so.. I don't even know the word. Oblivious to reality?

    Secondly, Jack sounds like such a little entertaining cutie!

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  14. I sent my husband to the grocery store on Sunday in my place. It is now Tuesday, and so far I have discovered seven things he forgot. And he had a list.

    I think it's a sickness. Or they do it on purpose so we don't ask them to do anything.

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  15. i think most men have the same prob! i'll be starting work in a week and hubby will care for my boy for 3 months lol i wonder what will happen...will be keeping my blog quite busy with updayes most probably

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