Birthday fire

January 10, 2007 ·

For my birthday, I very much want a nice fire in our fireplace. It’ll be my first birthday fire. And on this grand occasion, I’m going to do my first poll.

Elliot is nine. Like most nine-year-old boys, he likes fire (most of us never really outgrow that love). He was disappointed Monday when I didn’t get the fire going until after he went to bed. Here’s the question: on my birthday, should I go ahead and start the fire, or should I wait and let him help get it started? I can see both sides, but I want to know what you think. So

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11 Responses to “Birthday fire”

Georgia on January 10th, 2007 2:47 pm

Do you think he’d ever try to start a fire in the fireplace w/o you there if you showed him how to start one?
djuggler on January 10th, 2007 3:13 pm

You do know that you can soak your logs in different chemicals and change the color of the fire right?
jon on January 10th, 2007 3:17 pm

ooh! No, I didn’t know that!
djuggler on January 10th, 2007 3:38 pm

http://chemistry.about.com/cs/howtos/a/aa052703a.htm
jonathanhickman.com :: I agree with Cathy on January 10th, 2007 7:00 pm

[...] I wonder what the commenter to poster ratio is on blogs. How many readers do you need before you can get real conversations? (And more than twelve poll voters, for that matter.) [...]
jon on January 11th, 2007 11:25 am

Georgia - sorry your comment was eaten.

I don’t think he’d try it without us, but that is always a concern, of course. But he’s never there by himself, and when we do start a fire, I try to make sure to teach him all the rules (such as “you can only burn homework that you’ve already turned in and gotten back”).
DnB on January 11th, 2007 12:42 pm

This is going to kill downtown.
I like ice cream.

Happy B Day
jonathanhickman.com :: The people spoke, and I had ice cream on January 11th, 2007 4:39 pm

[...] Well, the people spoke. Despite a late surge in ice cream lovers, the overwhelming majority of all twenty-two voters said I should wait for E to come home before making the fire last night. As I sat on the couch last night enjoying a bowl of ice cream, Elliot’s fire kept me warm. [...]
Georgia on January 11th, 2007 6:49 pm

Heh- I like the burning homework rule.
Georgia on January 11th, 2007 6:52 pm

Oh, I forgot this part. It’s fleeting at best, but you get a mini color show when you burn the funny pages in the fireplace.
Orange peel smells great when it’s tossed on the fire.
jon on January 11th, 2007 6:57 pm

I need to start getting the Sunday funnies from my parents.