Monday, January 11, 2010

A Little Christmas Miracle

So my sister called me a few weeks before Christmas and invited us to Christmas lunch with them. We had to be in Dandridge for a Christmas lunch already with Daniel's side of the family so it was no can do for the Phillips as much as we wanted to.

As we got to my sisters on Christmas Eve she needed to put a Christmas Ham in the oven to bake for this wonderful lunch she was having. Sounds good right? Well it was until she woke up at around 6 in the morning on Christmas day with a strange smell filling her house. As any good mom would do she needed to go investigate. It was quite a shock.


Her wonderful ham had gotten so excited in the oven the juices had bubbled out over the sides of the pan and made a nice black crust in the bottom of her oven and smoke poured out of the oven.


And being the fantastic sister I am, we had to fan everything to get the smoke out.

She tried to do things quietly but she needed reinforcements so my mom and I got up and began the de-crusting process. Doesn't look so happy does she?
People were freaking out. Ok, a little dramatic.


Of course her sweet sister was there to help her ummm document the whole experience. Hahaha. Doesn't that make you want to eat early on Christmas morning?




The poor oven will have to be super cleaned and all it's innards taken out.
 
Things weren't looking pretty.

Nothing looked very hopeful for the Christmas lunch or the Christmas Ham. But then a little Christmas Miracle occurred. We were sure the little piggy was as black as the bottom of the oven. So we went to go check the poor little guy out.


And what to our wondering eye would appear............. but Porky Pig all sugar coated and happy to make Christmas lunch appear.  

You would think Santa would have been nice enough to come and tell my sister that her ham was smoking the house up but I guess he was a bit to busy for all that. Thanks a lot fat guy!

All and all it turned out so well and we were happy to be here on the most special of Christmas mornings when the house was all filled with smoke. That's one for the books. 

Now off to clean this little guy out. Sisters to the rescue!

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