Greetings All,

    We had a "exciting" weekend - to put it mildly. Friday afternoon Amber
friend Sarah set out kitchen on fire. Thankfully Amber did exactly what she
was suppose to - call 911. 911 did not believe her after they ask her age -
having followed directions when she realized that size fire needed the fire
dept. - she had left the house to escape the smoke - the 911 guy sent her
back in to describe the fire - and then still didn't believe her - and
wanted her to throw flour on it - flour explodes when you get enough near
fire and dispersed in the air. Finally he sent the fire dept. The kitchen is
toasted. The whole first floor smoke damaged. But my baby kept her head - so
we still have a house and healthy kids. The insurnce was great also - an
hour after I called they had a cleaning man there and a contractor to boaed
the windows and assess the damage - looks like new kitchen for us. What the
fire didn't get the fireman destroyed - the windows - not just the glass
panes , and screen and storm windows but the wooden frames also. I was
pretty upset right afwe it happened but am what the kids consider amazingly
cool - why not - the kids are fine and the house is replaceable.

  We thought we had lost one of more of the cats but found them all by very
late evening. The firechief had brought the dog out and handed it to Amber.
The cats are scared but fine.

   I am very proud of Amber. She kept her head and did all the right things.

                                                  Brightest Blessings -
Trisha