Who You Gonna Call?

Oh my - what a night! Maggie started throwing up last night about 5 pm.... Again.... She continued through the night and then again this morning after Scott had gone to work. He decided to come home early to relieve me of my barf duty. And thank goodness he did!!!

We were eating dinner at 4:50 (because I was famished and Scott was home). About 5:00 both of our carbon monoxide detectors start going. One is in the basement and one is in the hallway by the bedrooms. We looked at each other and said, "What do we do now?" So you call the fire department when the smoke alarm goes off. The police department when someone breaks into your house. What about when a carbon monoxide detector goes off?? Who do you call? We called a friend of ours - he said open windows, check this and check that... Then we looked on the internet... Basically the same information. Except it said to call a professional to check this and that. So we decided to call the police department's after-hours non-emergency number. They said, "Please get everyone out of the home and we will send over the fire department." I felt a little like they were saying - YOU MORON!!! IT'S ONLY BEEN GOING OFF FOR OVER 20 MINUTES!!!! GET OUT!!! They also asked if anyone in the house was nauseated, vomiting or had a headache. Well, that would be ALL of us. I am pregnant for goodness sake! When am I NOT nauseated!!!! And Maggie has been vomiting... UGH...

So we packed everyone up and got in the van. And waited out in front of our house for the fire department. I looked at my camera on the way out the door. I thought - I really should take that in case our house blows up. (that's how vain I am and how much I love my camera) But then thought - you are lame, just leave it. So I did.

When the fire truck came and Dallin was SO excited, I then realized my mistake in leaving my camera in the house. What a much more fun blog entry this would have been!!! 3 guys went in with Scott to check the house. 1 guy got in the van with us and put our finger in a machine to check our CO levels. We were all fine. The firemen couldn't find any carbon monoxide in our house but called Questar to make sure their machines said the same thing. Although while we were getting checked out in the van I did find out that our Joyschool group can go to the fire department for a field trip! (fun little side note)

Then Questar came and they also said that we were good to go. This - by the way - is a service with no charge. It is part of the $5/month fee that you pay for the accounting, etc. Meanwhile - we went to Lowe's and got a new carbon monoxide detector. We found out that the brand that we had in our home is the brand that 90% of the false alarm calls they get are. So we got a different brand.

Anyway - it was a night filled with adventure for Dallin. And thank goodness Scott had come home early. I would have been freaking out at home by myself with the kids.

By the way - Who you gonna call?? - that would be 911. And then your local gas company.