My house seriously almost caught on fire! I lit two candles in my room,,, one on my dresser the other on my vanity-desk! Went about my normal routine, batheing the boys, reading to them, brushed our teethand got them in bed. Then I went straight down stairs to get on this computer. After being down here about 5 min. I started to smell "camp fire" smell. I ran up stairs to see a 1 and half foot flame ON MY VANITY Desk! It was my make up bag on fire!!! NOW I am starting to remember WHY! Earlier in the night I threw my make up bag toward my vanity and missed, it fell on the floor so I picked it up and "threw it" on my vanity totally absent mindly that there was acandle burning up there! I almost panicked but I literally told my self, "Stay Calm!" I remembered what we learned at O's fire safety class at HeadStart... I blotted it out with a towel that was handy near by!
OMG! THEN IT GOT SMOKEY FAST! BUT- I had got it out enough that I knew it wasn't going to burn the house down! I was shaking and kept saying "OMG, THANK YOU GOD,,, OMG!!!!" THEN I grabbed the whole burned, smoking mess of a makeup bag (WITH ALL MY MAKE UP!) and threw it outside on the deck! I kicked snow on it (and it smoldered for over 10 minutes!)I ran back up stairs and jerked open the windows but the smoke was VERY stinky! Must have been my make up brushes and the plastics I bet! I cleaned up by vaccuming up burnt crumbs, scrubbing on my vanity which has a huge black burn mark and spraying LOTS of fabreeze! I'm too scared to litea candle to help with the stink so I opened more windows and got a couple fans going! AGH! what a scary night! I was going to go to bed early BUT NOW I need to wait for the adrenaline to slow down so I can go to sleep! (The BOYS never woke up!)
THANK YOU LORD FOR WATCHING OVER US, TEACHING ME A LESSON AND HELPING ME KEEP MY COOL TO DO THE RIGHT THING! AMEN
GOOD NIGHT!
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