We are lucky to still have a house!

Yesterday Lukas and I went to pick up some food for dinner. When we got home and I was unlocking the door I could smell something burning. I go inside and the smell is very strong. I go to the laundry room thinking it was in there. Then I look down the hall and I see smoke. I run into our bedroom and there is even more smoke! I guess we left a lamp on and Lukas put it on the floor and it started smoking. The lamp was on on Dans shorts and Dans shorts were black and smoke was just coming off them. I hurried and picked them up and there was orange sparks which were just getting ready to burst out in flames. I threw them outside and turned the hose on them. I ran back in and threw water on our floor to put out the smoke where a big hole had burned. The smoke was pretty thick it was making my eyes sting and making me cough. The smell was awful. We decided we should leave and spend the night at Dans parents house so we could air ours out. This morning was spent doing lots of laundry to get the smoke smell out of our bedding and and curtains. Luckily the smoke smell didn't reach our clothes in the closet. I also washed all the walls and dusted really well to help with the smoke smell. I am exhausted now after doing all of that work and just feeling overwhelmed with the whole situation. I just feel so blessed and so lucky to still have a house to live in with all of our things. If I wouldn't have gotten home right when I did we would have had a house in flames. Even though this isn't my house it feels like it and I would have been sad to loose it. I know sometimes I complain that it is too small and wonder how we are going to fit another baby in here. Right now though I am just so grateful to have a house knowing we could have lost everything.


This is the spot on the carpet that was burned. We cut out that piece of carpet so that we wouldn't still have to smell it.