Tonight's lessons

1. Keep good batteries in your smoke detectors.
2. Don’t leave sand castle candles unattended.
3. Don’t try using water to put out foot-high flames from sand castle candles gone rogue.
4. Do use baking soda to put out two-foot-high flames that result from the water attempt.
5. Be thankful that you’re someone who’s never used swear words, lest your children would have had a very colorful vocabulary lesson this evening.
6. Be thankful that your husband left his bad language back in high school.
7. Assure your kids that all is well … after the fire is out.
8. Snuggle your terrorized children while they calm down, then tell them to snuggle each other while they fall asleep.
9. Assume it will be a few hours before you can fall asleep yourself.