Evie did the funniest thing the other night. She & two friends were playing outside on Sunday. They could smell smoke outside and apparantly heard a siren of some kind. They're all convinced there is a fire somewhere nearby. Just before Christmas, a townhome just around the corner from us burned to a shell. We drove past the fire & emergency vehicles on our way home from her Christmas choir concert. It's consumed quite a bit of her thoughts since. Early last week, a nearby brush field caught on fire. Currently there is a forest/brush fire burning in North Carolina, just south of us and the local news is all over it. It's been burning for a few weeks now and the rains over the last week have brought it mostly under control. However, the weather conditions have finally brought the smoky smell up onto the Peninsula & Northern Hampton Roads region. Knowing this, the parents didn't react as quickly as our children would have liked.
Each kid is freakin' out in a different way: Bryan is insisting that we all come outside because something is burning nearby. We have to find it! Victoria is making guesses about what it could be & what we should all do now. Evie simply comes to the back door, clutches her fists to her chest & yells in this anquished voice, "We're DOOMED!!" and then runs back out.
That's my girl... the drama queen in the dress and crooked tiara.
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