The great Easter disaster of '07!!!

Okay. So it wasn't the like The Great Chicago Fire, but still...

We planned a nice simple Easter dinner for the 5 of us plus my parents, sister, BIL, and grandmother. Ham, green beans, scalloped potatoes, rolls.... Tom and I straightened up the basement, put the good tablecloth down, and got out the plates. Everyone arrived and we put the ham in the upstairs oven. We decided to cook the potatoes in the basement oven (which is only used once or twice a year). Upon preheating, we smelled something burning. I went down to inspect, and there was a small ribbon of smoke coming from the oven, and a spot of something burning on the bottom. Eh. It'll burn off. No problem. I put the covered casserole dish in the oven and went upstairs. 30 minutes later, the burning smell was back with a vengeance. I opened the back kitchen door and smoke was pouring up from the basement. I ran down there only to find the whole basement was filled with thick smoke, and then the smoke detector went off. The casserole was bubbling over and burning all over the oven floor. We finished cooking the potatoes upstairs when the ham was done. The smoke was so bad that we had to eat upstairs in the kitchen and at a card table in the hallway. The most ironic thing was the last time the oven was used, was last Easter ...for the potatoes. That's what was burning off the bottom during the preheat. I made a note on my potato recipe to put the casserole on a jelly pan or get a larger casserole dish.

Cailey had her PT eval last week. She was showing a 22% delay with her locomotion and a >25% was needed so she doesn't qualify for EI. And do you know what she did the very next day? Guess. She walked almost all the way across the room. She's a walker. She goes a little farther each day. :)