Home Sweet Home. Until someone sets her hair on fire.
Visiting the parents.
It’s been about 24 hours.
That’s usually when the honeymoon starts to end.
No. I love spending time with my parents. It’s just harder sometimes. They are older. I’m older.
But in someways I’m still 12 years old to my father and I will be till the day one of us departs this earth.
I said I’d grill chicken tonight.
My dad has been the barbecue chef around here forever.
In my household, I’ve been the only grill chef for 2o plus years.
Hm.
Tonight I piled the charcoal. Squirted on the lighter fluid. Struck the matches.
The fire started.
I went out later and the flame was on lift support.
So I put on more fluid. And threw in another match. The match went out before it hit the charcoal. My parents got this particular book of matches on a trip to Palm Beach 30 years ago.
Next time, I bent down close to fire so the flame wouldn’t go out and laid the burning match on top of the coals.
EXPLOSION.
I got back in time. Only problem was that mom witnessed the conflagration from inside.
Mother’s GASP alerted my father to the event.
My dad’s comment.
“That’s what happens when you set a fire after a drink.”
Someone help me.
Please.
You know how people put *snort* in comments? Well, I really and truly did snort for real as I finished your highly relatable post.
Because I am going there next month.
I’ll help you if you help me.
(beautiful blog by the way!!)
I know Farrah. We love them to peices but the more things change, the more they stay the same.
HA! Your dad is too funny! I have been grilling all week to keep the heat out of the kitchen. Maggie REFUSES to come up the stairs when I am at the grill because I about lit us both up a couple of years ago (funny how that gas just accumulates in a big cloud, isn’t it). Maggie STILL remembers and will sit at Rob’s feet while he grills, while watching me from behind the trash cans.
Dogs never forget. Tebow takes about an hour to walk through a screen door. I don’t ever remember him getting caught in one — but obviously he does.