We almost had a horrible disaster! Grace went to turn on the night light in the hallway when electrical sparks shot out of the outlet!
Dave yelled for me to come and see what happened. We couldn't see very clearly because all of the lights were blown out but what we could see did not look good. There was black covering the outlet and the nightlight. Thank goodness Grace only received a minor burn but her fingers were also black!
As we pondered what might have occurred, checked Grace for injuries and inspected the outlet, lo and behold, Dave found a burnt penny! Oh, even in the dark, with the fuses tripped, the lightbulb went on--Analiese!
Yes, Analiese admitted that she put a penny on the nightlight. It must have fallen and had been leaning on the prongs that were in the outlet and when Grace turned on the switched POW!
Of course we had lots of tears and sorry's from our youngest---hopefully this was a VERY big lesson for her. We are grateful it wasn't any worse then a little soot and a few tripped switches. We can only imagine how serious this could have been!
Leave it to Analiese to ensure we get to experience EVERY childhood situation that can occur. God do I love her!
1 comment:
WOW! Glad no one was hurt badly. These kids I tell ya, what were we thinking?!?! Oh what fun and adventurous our lives have become :)
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