Edit: May 14, 2010. This post is 3 years old, but I decided to link it for Friday Fails, because it fits so perfectly! My life has changed a lot since this post, so please don’t think I’ve abandoned my kids in favor of college! 
Ahhh dinner time. That wonderful, peaceful family-togetherness time. Right? Maybe most evenings, but not tonight! It’s funny how things you read about ring true. I’m reading The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Dr. Laura Schlessinger. So far she’s got many good points (as she always does on the radio), and one thing she is talking about in chapter one is hurried, overextended mothers. Generally my life’s a lot calmer than it has been since I started taking college classes. Since I have many children with a few activities, sometimes it gets nuts. Tonight was one of those nights.
P is trying out for dance/colorguard team. They have 2 nights of practice and auditions are tomorrow. We had to be there at 6pm tonight, so I made spaghetti noodles, reheated some of my hubby’s awesome spaghetti sauce (which was frozen) in the microwave. I’d been stirring the sauce occasionally to break up the frozen center. The whole thing was simmering really well around the edges, and I stirred it again to help that last little chunk of frozen sauce to get thawed and heated. The frozen sauce must have touched the hot glass of my mixing bowl, because the next thing I knew…. BOOM! The thing blew up right in my face!
This was a Pyrex mixing bowl… a GOOD MIXING BOWL…
I didn’t take a picture of myself, but I had spaghetti sauce all down the front of me, and you can see the sauce and glass on the stove below the microwave. Glass landed in the pot of spaghetti that was cooking too. Suffice it to say, but the time I got it cleaned up, it WAS 6pm and P and I dashed out the door (she’d heated soup to feed herself while I cleaned up the glass) and I directed the big kids to “Make SOMETHING to eat!”. (I should also note here that my hubby is out of town for two more days.) I’m going to email him the picture. Here’s the close-up:
You are not alone in these moments.
I was rushing one time and put something in the microwave that had a small piece of foil that caught fire and my ds (3) had to tell me before the whole thing went kapow!!! It doesn’t help that I can be absentminded as well or as I like to call it distracted or intensely focused.
Glad the damage was minimal, the older ones could fend for themselves, and dh wasn’t home.
That is hilarious! Well probably wasn’t at the time but oh my goodness, I can totally see myself doing something like that! Good old Microwaves!
OH MY GOSH!! Are you okay? That’s terrible but like Michelle said – kind of funny after the fact.
I did something like southern girl once – I had something cooking in the microwave and all of a sudden there was a fire in the back of it. I opened it quickly to put it out and figure out what was wrong and I found a clothespin – which has a metal piece on it lying there on fire! UGH! Thankfully it just left a burn mark on the bottom of the microwave and no other damage. I have no idea how it got there in the first place!!
Oh yes! Microwaves are great for fires too! A few months ago I had a frozen loaf of bread catch fire…. of course the culprit was a wire twist tie around the bag! LOL I’ll NEVER forget when I microwaved some cocoa right after we got our first microwave (I was 12, so I’m dating myself here, lol). I was using my dad’s Navy mug. His Navy mug with the gold paint. With the REAL gold paint. It arced in THREE places and left black burn marks on his mug! Dad wasn’t real happy with me…
Whoa. I’m glad you didn’t get hurt though…
Oh my goodness! Thank heavens the glass didn’t injure you!!