Hardware Wars
Amelia has some new favorite phrases. One thing that she loves to repeat over and over again is, "Hi!" She says, "Hi!" to mommy and daddy throughout the day, but at least as often she also greets the characters on her DVD's. For example, the first time Tigger appears in Winnie the Pooh Amelia will beam and wave saying, "Hi!" It's very cute.
She's also picked up the habit of saying, "Second" whenever she wants mommy to pick her up. I'm sure that sounds odd, but she got it from mommy. Almost every time she's in the kitchen and wants to be picked up mommy's in the middle of cooking or preparing snacks or juice for Amelia. So whenever she would ask to be picked up my response would be, "Just a second, sweetheart." I guess she has decided that a second has already elapsed every time she's bouncing at my knee saying, "Second...second."
We had an exciting adventure in the kitchen tonight. I had just finished browning some stew meat on the stove and decided the burner was too hot to rest the pan on while I mucked about for spices and tomato juice. So, I moved the pan to the back burner, which was completely off and cool at the time.
Now this morning, when Mike had reached for a fallen piece of potato near that same burner (again, in the off position) he had been shocked. When I sat my metal pan on the burner a spark of light appeared that caught me completely by surprise.
Needless to say, I decided to completely avoid my right back burner after this incident and returned my stew to simmer on it's original hot front burner. I waited for the stew to boil...Nothing was happening. I turned the burner up, still nothing.
Well, apparently the entire stove has shorted out. Oven doesn't work either. Luckily, Michael saved the day by finding a microwave stew recipe on line. I never use the microwave to actually cook a meal, but the stew turned out all right.
Tomorrow morning I will obviously have to call maintenance. The stove was a little old and dicey before...Maybe we'll get a new stove out of this. Until then, I guess it's toaster over / microwave meals for us.
Lisa
She's also picked up the habit of saying, "Second" whenever she wants mommy to pick her up. I'm sure that sounds odd, but she got it from mommy. Almost every time she's in the kitchen and wants to be picked up mommy's in the middle of cooking or preparing snacks or juice for Amelia. So whenever she would ask to be picked up my response would be, "Just a second, sweetheart." I guess she has decided that a second has already elapsed every time she's bouncing at my knee saying, "Second...second."
We had an exciting adventure in the kitchen tonight. I had just finished browning some stew meat on the stove and decided the burner was too hot to rest the pan on while I mucked about for spices and tomato juice. So, I moved the pan to the back burner, which was completely off and cool at the time.
Now this morning, when Mike had reached for a fallen piece of potato near that same burner (again, in the off position) he had been shocked. When I sat my metal pan on the burner a spark of light appeared that caught me completely by surprise.
Needless to say, I decided to completely avoid my right back burner after this incident and returned my stew to simmer on it's original hot front burner. I waited for the stew to boil...Nothing was happening. I turned the burner up, still nothing.
Well, apparently the entire stove has shorted out. Oven doesn't work either. Luckily, Michael saved the day by finding a microwave stew recipe on line. I never use the microwave to actually cook a meal, but the stew turned out all right.
Tomorrow morning I will obviously have to call maintenance. The stove was a little old and dicey before...Maybe we'll get a new stove out of this. Until then, I guess it's toaster over / microwave meals for us.
Lisa
posted by Lisa, Mike, Amelia, and Diana at 6:57 PM
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