So my house caught on fire.  I was cleaning house and threw some clothes in the dryer.  A few minutes later, while I was doing dishes, I smelled something and heard a crackling in Beau’s room.  I rushed in there to find the fuse box turning black and smoke coming from it.  I was on the phone with my sister Valerie and she had the presence of mind to tell me to use the fire extinguisher.  So I did.  Then I called 911.

Rescue workers descended on the house. I was in a panic as they trooped in and proceeded to cut my electricity and poke a hole in Beau’s ceiling.  They crawled around on my roof and finally decided the house was safe but that we could have no electricity until the fuse box was repaired.

This left us in a predicament.  We had no where to stay.  So I called the Red Cross and they put us up in a hotel.  We took Beau and went to the hotel with TV dinners for him and a $95 gift card the Red Cross gave us for food.

J got the electric fixed the next day.  We still need to upgrade to a breaker box, but for now our fuse box is fixed and we were able to move back into our house.  We decided that since we had missed checkout time to just spend the night at the hotel so Beau could swim in the pool.  He loved it!

End result no real harm was done.  We were badly shaken though.