this is for you Tabitha!

If you drove past my home this afternoon. say noon-ish.. you probably would have thought it was on fire.. to be honest.. I am actually surprised that no one stopped in..  I made some cinnamon pull aparts a few days ago.. and went to turn on the oven.. I knew some of the corn syrup had fallen out of the pan and leaked everywhere.. so I thought I was being smart and firing up the oven while olive was awake.. instead of waking her up when the smoke alarms went off..  

instead.. dark grey smoke was billowing out of my oven.. and I opened every window and door to get it out of the house.. which only made things worse.. it just blew around the downstairs.. and took almost 2 hours to clean out.. I made Olive stand by the front door just for fresh air.. 

for those of you who have never been in my kitchen.. it normally looks like this.. 

** side note.. this blog entry took me 15 minutes to write.. because the smoke alarm went off again and olive was scared crap-less wondering why there was a firetruck in our living room.. maybe I just have a sensitive smoke alarm?!