Natalie went to the firehouse near her school with her class while I was in Anaheim the later part of this week. 

And while it’s great to know her class is learning fire safety… “stop drop and roll mama”… as soon as I told my friends of her class trip, those who know me quickly read my mind, and then asked… so why didn’t you volunteer to chaperone?  (Her teacher emailed the parents saying chaperones weren’t needed, by the way. Something tells me quite a few moms would have been free to chaperone that day. C’mon you so would have.)

Little did I know, Friday night after being on one of the most interesting flights from LAX to JFK (starting with airport cameos from Timothy Busfield, Senator Chuck Schumer and Constantine Maroulis), I’d meet a fireman (he drove me home – thank you, Disney!) and I would ask him all the (STUPID) questions people think to themselves.. or maybe women think right after they watch that Sex and the City episode (which I even brought up.)

I’m embarrassed to admit sentences like So can all firemen cook?or is it a myth – er, I mean an urban legend and Are you allowed to do those calendars? actually came out of my mouth. (Although anyone who talked with me after Harrison’s surgery probably is still trying to get over the David Hasselhoff story. I certainly am!) I just can’t believe he answered all of my questions.

Catching up with a friend this morning, she reminded me I left out one more important question to ask this fireman… besides Have you ever saved a kitten from a tree?

His name!!!!!!

So we’ve nicknamed him Fireman Sam (and then later we remembered there’s a cartoon with that name but we are all too lazy to come up with a new nickname). Why? Because at 11:30 at night, I can ask everything but normal questions like his name!!

Now before you say moms can’t have crushes… I’d like to remind you that just last week, The Today Show did a segment on secret crushes being a good thing. So there. It’s more common than you think.  

And it’s not like he’s going to read my blog anyway. Thankfully everyone reading this already knows, I don’t mind sharing my silliness with all of you.