Surviving the Domestic Jungle

I am not sure if I ever told the story of how this blog came to be. If I did, it was a long time ago and I am not looking through almost 500 posts to double check! It all started in 2009 when I almost burnt down the house. We had just moved in to a house that had a gas stove when I had only electric stoves. I was not one for cooking to begin with so pretty much the concept of a stove was a new concept. I was a stay at home mom and was trying to be all domestic goddess like and was cooking a Lasagna. Not a fresh one, a frozen one but remember I was not one for cooking so the fact that I even turned on the oven was a miracle. Anyway, with electric stoves you have a storage compartment on the bottom and as I found out that day, gas stoves do not. Do NOT put anything in the drawer on gas stoves or they may just catch on fire. You see where this story is going….I turned on the oven and walked away because I was letting it preheat. A couple minutes later I smell something funny so I pop into the kitchen and there was black smoke pouring from that “drawer”. I freaked out and threw about 3000 gallons of water on it and through the now charred bbq tools in the backyard. It was a mess. A stinky stinky mess. As My husband and I were eating dinner that night, I was giggling about how I should write a book called “Surviving the Domestic Jungle” for moms like me who hadn’t the slightest clue what they were doing. I went that night and looked up my now domain name on godaddy and it was available. I was pretty surprised it hadn’t been snapped up. I let it go for a year. I looked it up again and it was still there and that is when I decided it was there for me and bought me address, contacted a website designer and decided to start a blog. The rest, as they say, is history…..