Alarming Surprise!

Last night I woke up from a deep sleep because I heard this ear piercing sound. Being dead asleep my heart started to race and my mind was getting into "someone has broken into the house" mode. Not sure why the beep caused my mind to go there, but that's just me. It only took me a minute to realize that our smoke alarm was going off because the battery was low. How annoying that it decided to go off in the middle of the night. So I tell Ben, but he is out. I decide that I would take care of it by blindly going into the kitchen and getting the broom. Now in my mind at this time, is that I am just going to ram the broom stick and knock it off just so that we could go back to bed. Didn't work. At this point Ben gets up when he sees that my method is ridiculous and in no way working.

Ben being the logical person that he is, is super annoyed that some genius decided to put the detector where it was. Ben asked for a kitchen chair. He had to put it on the chest of drawers to get to the edge where he would then have to crawl on to get to the detector.
(All the while half dead asleep)

I am now down below shaking laughing watching Ben get over to the detector.
I'm just thinking, "this is really happening right now"! haha
(You can kind of get the idea of how high he had to go to get to
this thing by seeing the top of the bedroom door)

I went to the kitchen to get a 9volt battery and threw it up to Ben. He was trying to get it all changed over, and the annoyingly loud beep would keep on, so I just told him to leave it undone, and he could go back up there later. Hopefully no fires in the near future, because we left it undone so we could just go back to bed!

The excitement never dies at the Fleming's!