june cleaver i am not....

this week is the bean's 10th birthday! in celebration, we decided she could have a sleepover last night. she invited her three BFF's and the plan was to camp out in our backyard. theMr would build a fire in our pit and they could roast smore's and sleep in a tent. he doesn't get home from work until about 9 so it was just me and all the small people until then. i had come up with the great idea to let the girls each make their own pizza for dinner. as we were waiting for the guests to arrive, i was getting all ingredients set out for them. i set the oven to preheat and was putting out all the toppings they could choose from. our pastor's daughter had already arrived and we were waiting on the other two. suddenly, i notice flames coming out of my burners. not smoke, FLAMES! i yell for the bean and her friend to take the baby upstairs and i open the oven. earlier in the day, we had decided to bomb our house for bugs. when doing so, i had put several bags of chips from on top of the refrigerator in the oven so they would not get insecticide in them. apparently i forgot to take them out before i preheated the oven. so they were on fire. in my kitchen. i grabbed the first thing i saw (which was a large, glass vase!) and filled it with water and threw it in there. that put it out. just then, the other two little girls arrive, to a house filled with smoke. um, thanks for entrusting your children to me! i'll try not to start any more fires... thankfully i'm good friends with both of the other moms! needless to say, we had to order pizza, which was no problem for the girls! after that it was smooth sailing. they played outside, toasted marshmallows, and did LOTS of giggling. they lasted a few hours in the tent before deciding they were scared (which i'm sure had nothing to do with theMr sneaking up on them and scaring the snot out of them) and they ended up sleeping in the house. i'm sure that's one slumber party they'll remember well. what can i say? i never claimed to be june cleaver!