Potions

On Friday our oven started on fire while we were preheating it to cook dinner. Jeff yelled from the kitchen “the oven’s on fire!,” and I couldn’t really process that right away so I didn’t answer and he yelled again, with more urgency “the oven is on fire, what do I do?!” After telling him to close the oven door and turn it off, I made it to the kitchen where the flames were just dying down. What was supposed to be homemade pizza turned into a takeout pizza night.

We put in a “maintenance request” with the property management company, and haven’t heard a word. No one works over the weekend, so no surprise, but it occurred to me that if there ever was a real emergency -say the house burned down because we didn’t catch the oven fire immediately - there is no number to call. So that is a sign that we are not renting from such a great agency. 

As long as we don’t turn the oven on, life is normal. Today the kids made potions. Linden has decided that this potion Will bring her a spell book. She is not sure how it will arrive. It might come by magic, but it might come through the mail, or in a box delivered by courier. I have no idea why she decided this or how she came up with it but I kind of love it :-)