One day about nine years ago I worked very hard to make several batches of spaghetti sauce. I wanted to make enough to freeze some and was feeling very much like Suzy homemaker.
We ate supper and then came the task of putting all the food away. I found a Tupperware bowl that would be a good size to freeze some of the sauce and filled it up. It was a brand new bowl and I was having a difficult time getting the lid closed. I wasn’t going to let it get the better of me though, no siree. I inched around the lid and then put my whole weight into it to seal it shut, only instead of cooperating, the bowl went flying. It shot out from under me with a vengeance sending spaghetti sauce everywhere.
By the time I thought to take a picture I had already cleaned the refrigerator door. The dark space behind me is a hallway with a flight of stairs leading to the front door. There was sauce all the way down the stairs, along the banister and clear to the front door. I laughed and laughed. It took us literally hours to clean up. My poor one-year-old Faith didn’t know what was happening and cried the entire time. Jason said it wasn’t funny at all. He told me maybe he’d find it funny in a year or so, but nine years later he still just shakes his head and says it was horrible!
A few days later I took my baby to the doctor. When I handed the shot record to the nurse, she made a face as she took the card. I looked down, and there splattered on it was spaghetti sauce. When we moved out of the house, we were still finding spots of sauce to clean up. I don’t know that I’ve ever made such a big batch of sauce again!
well i guess since i didnt have to clean it up, i dont share jason’s sentiment… i think thats pretty funny! 🙂 i also think its the type of thing that could only happen to you, esther… and you took it in stride! 🙂 you are such an optimist. my hero! 😉
Wow! That’s a fabulous mishap. Have to say I’ve been there in other events. Sure you’re not part Polack like me?
LOL! Cooking disasters make for good stories … years later, that is!
I love that you are laughing in the picture.
What a mess for you! Glad you can laugh about it now!
I’m pleased you can ever laugh about it. And I know I’ve probably said this before but, with every one of these stories, you remind me of Anri-Louise more and more.
I had a GOOD laugh! Esther …you write so well!
Oh my! That surely sounded like a huge mess alright! I’m glad that you have the sense of humor to laugh about it. I’m not sure if I could, ha, ha! Who would ever think that just sitting on a bowl of tupperware full of spaghetti would make such a huge mess by just flying from underneath you! 🙂
Yay! This reminds me of the spaghetti sauce I made last year that ended up in the trash bin.
Jason was completely disgusted w/ it and I also think the meat that I used had been sitting too long in the fridge so we just threw all of it away.
But the confession I have to make is that I’ll never ever use ketchup to augment the quantity of the spaghetti sauce that I have 😛
Wow. I don’t know whether I would have laughed or cried. I hope never to find out! And can I just tell you again what a fabulous wife and mother I think you are? I think that a sense of humor is one of the BIGGEST assets in the whole marriage/parenthood scheme of things!
Oh boy…glad it wasn’t yesterday:)
Blessings
Shari
This is so funny, but I am so happy it didn’t happen to me!
Oh too funny! At my house it was the dog who took the pan of spaghetti sauce off the stove, realized it was hot, and dropped the pan. I had sauce on the ceiling!!
Wow thanks for the link. Feel so much better -my lasagna didn’t go that far. Always forget to take pictures But this should be all our problems!!