Embarrassing Smells

I am often self-conscious of what my house smells like. Especially in the morning when I have people come to my house for preschool. You know how it is in the mornings, there's the soggy cereal on the table, freshly changed diapers that were soaked from the nights wear, etc. I refuse to make my kids eggs or other strong smelling breakfast on preschool mornings because I don't want my house to stink. With that in mind I tell the following story...
On the eve of St. Patrick's Day Tom thought it would be festive to cook corned beef and cabbage for the Irish holiday. Now, I don't like corned beef and cabbage and neither do the kids (as far as I know). So Tom (whom I love dearly) decided not only to cook some for himself, but to use the crockpot, overnight, to slowly cook the meal. When we woke up on St. Patrick's Day we were greeted with the strong, stinky aroma of corned beef and cabbage that had been slow cooking in the crockpot for the past nine hours. It's a good thing I'm not pregnant, that smell was making me nauseous enough. I tried to spray the house with Fabreeze, it was too cold to open the windows, otherwise I would have done that too. But no matter what I did, the smell was still there. The kids showed up that day for preschool and I could hear them saying to each other as they came in "what stinks?", "ew, it's stinky in here", etc. Luckily I only had one parent come in as most just drop the kids off outside by this time of the year. I explained the stench to the parent, as well as to the preschoolers. Later it was warm enough to open windows, but whenever someone came to the door I had to explain what the smell was. Every time I went outside and came back in I'd have to get used to the smell all over again. The next day I had a spontaneous call from a future preschool client wanting to come meet me and see the preschool. It didn't hit me until I was making the house look decent that it might still wreak of cabbage. You know how it is. Once you get used to the smell, you don't know if it still smells or not. I sprayed the Fabreeze again and opened the windows again. I'm pretty sure the smell was gone, but I'll never know for sure.
So the next time you want to cook something that produces a strong odor, think twice about who else will be smelling it.
If you're wondering what happened to all that corned beef and cabbage, well Tom took some to work that day for lunch (I'm sure the smell wasn't much better in the Fidelity break room). And the rest is sitting in a bowl in the freezer. If any of you like corned beef and cabbage, feel free to help yourself.
I love you Tom!