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Pesah Preparation Stories; why did it happen to me? :)
Topic Started: Apr 8 2005, 03:58 PM (312 Views)
FlowerGirl
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The year ,hen my son was about 2 1/2 yrs old & the baby - almost 1, I was sooo organized & proud of myself too.

it was 1 day before pesah, and the kitchen was off-limits - all washed & sparkling, waiting to complete the 24-hr break b4 kashering.

In the corner of the kitchen was a small box containing 1/2 bag of flour and other hometz that my dh was going to burn the next morning.

I was playing with the kids in their room & life couldn't have been better (less Mashiah).

And this is when I needed to go to the bathroom!!! :evil:

Well, when I came back, my son wasn't in the room anymore. I found him in the kitchen, throwing handfulls of flour into the air!!!! :( :angry: :wacko: :mad :tantrum :ouch :help :crazy :evil:

B'H, a very helpful neighbour was nearby. I asked her to watch my baby, put the boy (who couldn't figure out why I wasn't happy about such a fun game!) into the bathtub & washed him off & shipped him to the neighbour's care too.

I called our Rav, who told me that since everything is cold, I can clean it up & our 24 hrs were not interrupted, B'H

So I vaacumed the stove, the sink, the floors, cleaned up some more and next time I needed to go to the bathroom, I took the hometz with me.

thank you for listeing! :blush
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proudmommy
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:<!--emo&lol:-->Posted Image<!--endemo--> :<!--emo&lol:-->Posted Image<!--endemo--> :ouch

It's a good thing they're so cute - or we'd throw them out the window!

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lorientova
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That's why Hashem in his wisdom made them that way... cute that is...
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The first year I did pessach by myself, I was happily burning off my elements on my stove. Had all 4 burners on nice and hot. First the adhesive that held the hooks for my oven mitts melted, dropping them onto the stove. Huge fire! I could not put the fire out becuase I could not get to the knobs on the stove becuase the area over the stove was too hit (And here was a fire!). used foil to guard my arm long enough ot get to the knobs, but apprently it was so hot the plastic on the knobs had started to melt. I got the elements turned off, then had ot be rished to the hospital for burns up and down my hands and wrists.
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Oh my goodness - this one is nothing compared to the above story, that sounds very scary. The flour baby one is cute (albeit I'm sure it was one of those trying times all mothers can relate to :kermit )

We just had the strangest year for food about fifteen years ago. I think there were way too many cooks in Bubbe's kitchen! We were all doing different things and when it came time for the dinner we served up the new "quick and easy" loaf we'd bought but it was RAW. This was a new Kosher butcher we'd purchased some last minute items from and we were used to the precooked loafs from our old place. OY! Then, when we went to eat our hard boiled eggs - these were also raw. Thinking they'd already been cooked, I'd taken them off the burner and cooled them under the faucet before they'd even had a chance to poach much less hard boil! However, that seder remains one of the happiest memories of mine because we were all so flustered and upset that we just had to finally laugh at ourselves. Every year I have to relive it with the question: "Now these eggs are really cooked right? Sarah?" lol! It actually makes my heart feel warm to think of this. :()
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Our first pesach married I was due 2 weeks after Pesach. But Purim time I came down with pre-e. Guess who was on bedrest from 3 weeks before Purim on! ME! So here I was newly married and my first pesach coming. Because my due date was so close there was no way we could go away. So from the couch I ordered my poor dh around telling how to pesadick the apartment. Poor guy was flabbergasted. He had always cleaned his room and the walkway to his room and sold the rest of his apartment! haha! So than they tell us they are inducing erev pesach. So, my parents drive down from chicago. Dh is freaking cause it means seder in Labor and Delivery. We have to call rav after rav trying to figure out if I am even allowed. We secretly know its a boy so we are trying to figure out what do we need for a Pesach bris. How much will it cost to bring a mohel out. And what do I care about? The fridge edges were not cleaned with a toothbrush! HAHAHA! :rofl

I ended up going in to be induced and my last lab results came back perfect so not only was I not induced in the end but was completely taken off bedrest. You better believe I marched home and cleaned that fridge from top to bottom again with my toothbrush!
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I have a perfectly round scar on my kneee, that looks like a brand or an ensignia for a secret society. I was cleaning the stove top, took it completely off, forgot that the pilot light heats it up and burned myself. I still call it my Pesach scar.
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SaraFR
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This doesn't beat the top ones but I thought it was worth a mention.

I think it was 2 years ago. I was cleaning a bottom cabinet. I took a wet paper towel, placed it in the back crevice of the cabinet and pushed it sideways to collect the crumbs. What I didn't know was that there was a large nail there that I forcefully shoved my hand into. Of course I couldn't get through to my husband to take me to the doctor before the doctor closed to see if I needed a tetanus shot. I had to have someone else drive me last minute, with their child in the car late at night. B"H the doctor was able to clean me up and avoid the tetanus shot, but that HURT! :bricks
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When I was a teenager, every year I managed to get spray cleaner in my eyes! I got really good at rinsing them for 20 minutes in the sink!
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we have so many new members since last year and another Pesah is coming.
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Had my first break down of the season! LOL

I sent Dh for magic errasers to clean the walls. He came home with some knock off. I sat in the middle of the hallways sobbing- they just aren't the same. He finally convinced me to try them and if they didn't work than he would go to BJs and get me real ones. They didn't work as well... but they did the job. He has promised me real ones though for the fridge!!
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the year my youngest was born, (3 weeks to pesach) My husband bought a card table and stuck it in my small kitchen, I had a literal meltdown over it. screaming, tears, yelling the works. I told my husband that he is not allowed to do anything new when I'm post-baby, I just cannot handle any changes when I'm hormonal! ( besides cleaning for peasach on very little sleep and having a two week old is really not very helpful to the situaton!)
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When my oldest was almost a year old , and I was about3 months pregnant with #2. My son was hospitalized with a massive lymph node infection, 3 days before peasach. We were in a hospital that was very far from any Jewish community, I had to beg to be let out for peasach. They only let me out if I had a Pic line installed into my sons arm....t

The procedere was schedueled for 10 am, but was delayed. It was suppossed to take 15 minits, but it took two hours. we were told the only way we would be allowed out was if we promised to show up at the doctor on yom tov. we were finally discharged from the hospital 2 hours to yom tov. we got home with an hour to spare.

We could not go to the seder on time because we had to wait for a nurse to show us how to administer the IV antibiotic into our sons arm. (massive pain in the neck, each dose lasted about an hour and a Half)

Halfway through the second day of Yom tov, Our son pulled his pick line out, we had to rush him to the doctor, who then had his nurse call every area pharmacy to see if I had ever had a perscription filled there for my son, she finally found one, who was close by and because they only had half the amount we needed in stock, let us have the medication without paying till we got the rest.

the medication was so strong that our poor baby spent the rest of YT (and the week after with massive case of the runs.) But BH we lived to tell about it! and the next peasach was a whole lot less eventful bh!!
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last year i got a stomach virus 3 days before pesach. That was the day i was going to have my carpet cleaned and turn over my Kitchen. Well the carpet cleaners came anyway and i just turned over my kitchen the next day.

One year my father burned his beard by Bidikas Chometz

My parents had a crazy erev pesach one year - one kids chipped his tooth and needed an emergancy appointment and another kid was sick and was rushed to the emrgency room. B"h he was only there for a few hours. And that same year my parents and brother organized a seder for a Russian Group anf had to prepare food for them.
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Our neighbor was kashering things for Pesach by dumping them into a big pot of boiling water and then fishing them out wearing heavy-duty rubber gloves. He misjudged the depth of the water. Long story short, he ended up in the ER with 2nd-degree burns to his hand and wrist.

Another guy was kashering ditto wearing ditto. His gloves were longer, but not heat-resistant. The glove disintegrated, and he also ended up in the ER --but with third degree burns.

Moral of the story: DO NOT STICK YOUR HAND INTO THE KASHERING POT NO MATTER WHAT YOU"RE WEARING!!! Use tongs, a bent wire hanger, or a net. (Realeez, use one of your toy hammocks for this!) Yes, a net is halachicly permissible.

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