Well we had a nice day yesterday, if you don't count the endless driving around Arundel Mills. We got sushi for dinner and Cammie went to sleep relatively easily. We were all sleeping (all 2 and 4 legged family members) when the smoke detector went off. It's gone off a couple of times due to dust in our little heater but this time you could smell smoke. Cammie was still asleep so Joe ran downstairs and I started opening windows. When he turned the light on you could see how thick the smoke was. I was handling things OK until I went down the steps and he yelled to get Cammie out of the house, he had put the dogs outside when they ran down the steps with him. I grabbed a blanket and her and ran next door to Sharon and Ken's. Ken went over to help Joe and Sharon said when he opened the front door you could smoke pour out. Joe said later when he did something with the wood stove the wax caught on fire and that's when he got worried. We stayed next door until everything was under control. Most of the smell is gone, which once the smoke was all out of the house was really only the candle smell. Since there wasn't really a fire, there isn't any soot which is good. So we've just been trying to recover today. My nerves are still a little iffy. Cammie handled being snatched out of her bed and ran outside very well. She didn't cry or anything. We are all fine!! Just have a few items to get on our must buy list and we won't be putting candles on the wood stove again. Check your smoke detectors though!!! Ours definitely saved us because I'm not kidding, the house was full of smoke and it was only getting worse.
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