A fire is burning!

We had quite the experience tonight that I just had to write about. While I was cooking dinner and all my children were sitting at the bar watching me I had a fire break out on the stove. This is the first time this has ever happened to me, and it was so scary. I was cooking a chicken breast with a little bit of oil, and I opened the lid to turn it and it burst into flames. I am not exaggerating one bit when I say the flames were at least 2 feet tall. I grabbed the pan and threw it in the sink and turned on the water, which at first made it worse. I thought in those few short seconds that here goes my kitchen. I thought for sure it was all going to go up in flames. But luckily it went out with no harm done. A few seconds later the fire alarms started going off, and all 4 of my kids started crying. They were really scared. At this point I knew we were ok, so it was just a matter of calming down the kids and opening up some doors to get the smoke out and within a few minutes the alarms stopped. It was a good learning experience for all of us because we got to have a good conversation about what to do if a fire were to start, or if we were to hear the fire alarms go off in the night or any other time. We talked about our emergency plan and where we would go. We will all meet at the mail box, and then probably head down to Steve's house.