While in the shower tonight, I heard a lot of yelling accompanied by thumping (their feet as they ran) by the kids. Based on how long it went on for, I figured they were playing a game. In any case, I didn’t rush out as Neil was in the house.
Big fat WRONG!! He was outside frantically cleaning up for the last yard-waste collection of the year. Nolan had heated up the pot to make popcorn. When he dumped in the coconut oil …. well, you can guess what happened. Inferno!
The yelling and feet thumping were them racing to find Neil with shouts of “Fire! Daddy FIRE!!”
Note to selves: kids are only allowed to make popcorn with direct adult supervision.
Neil’s aside: Notice they called for “Daddy”, not “Mummy”. They know who makes the fire and who puts it out 🙂
another lesson
The first time Josh and Peter were alone they did the same thing. After that we got an air popper. Very scary but the kids did the right thing. XO Aunt Mary