My kitchen caught fire......

Yesterday, I decided to cook some ramen noodles for lunch. I had one pot for the kids and one for myself. I put the pots on the stove and turned them on. I noticed one of the pots starting to smoke. I thought, oh there must be a little run over under the burner so I opened the kitchen window and turned on the fan. Within a few seconds, the smoke became thick and I realized the stove was on FIRE! I quickly took the pots off the burners and turned them off. The flame was growing and the total nerd I am tried to "blow out" the flame with my own air. That was far from successful. I started to think back to all my fire safety training, but I couldn't remember what you DON'T throw on the fire vs. what to throw on the fire. I quickly remembered my fire extinguisher in the washer/dryer room so I ran to grab that. I knew you had a "pin" to pull and I just scrambled till something started working. The spray went EVERYWHERE and the fire was successfully put out. (The kids were outside). I quickly called Dave and begged him to come home. Looking at my kitchen and the mess, I started to wonder if I was fumigating myself and how in the world do I clean up this powder mess. I called the local fire department for some advice. After two wrong calls, 3 transfers, they told me I HAD to call 911 because the fire could still be spreading in my stove and I needed to evacuate my house. So I grabbed my kids and headed to the front of the house. Quickly, Dave drove in and so did two large fire trucks and a fire dept surburban. Wow, I knew I was a bad cook, but didn't realize that it would be such an event. After declaring our house safe and providing our kids fire stickers, everyone left. It took me over 2 hours to clean up the powder mess up; it traveled into every cabinet. My advice: EVERYONE get a fire extinguisher for your kitchen. I always said I would never be a fire in the kitchen family - was I ever wrong! Shortly after everyone left, Herbie walked in and said,"MOM, you forgot to make my lunch!"

Herbie update in regards to pillow - had a little rough patch for nap yesterday, but for bed last night - went to bed and slept great!