I'm an idiot

This morning while my kids were eating their breakfast, it was cold so I started to build a fire. When I opened the door all of these ashes came pouring out(it's way past time to clean them out I've just been putting it off). Jay has been telling me to buy a little bucket and little shovel for that and I always just use the vacuum hose. He tells me ALL the time, "make sure none of those coals are hot!" I always laugh to myself, "I'm not an idiot!" Well, apparently I am. So here I am happily vacuuming up these ashes(and for some reason I love doing this, I think it's how fast they get all vacuumed up or something) and I start smelling something really bad, kinda electrical smelling. I look up at there are full on sparks, flames you name it shooting out of the side of the vac. where the filter is! "Oh, Crap, Oh, Crap I'm yelling I tear off the back and the bag inside of it is on fire. I take it outside and throw it in the snow, then come back in and the vac. is still melting. I take it outside and figure it's only like 17 degrees out there it will stop. So right when I walk back in I look at Mia happily eating in her high chair and she looks right at me and says "crap"! Little Mia, who hasn't said a clear word in her life, Mia who doesn't even speak our language, she speaks one all her own. I am the worst Mom....I guess I have to watch what I say around her. So now my house smells something fierce, and I went to check on the vac. Well the bag is up in flames(laying in the snow), and the vac. is still smoking away.....it has a huge hole burned down the bottom of it! WHOOPS! Thank goodness I wasn't using my new Dyson my parents gave me for Christmas! I think I've learned my lesson.