Power Outages

[treeholm]

I managed, but it wasn't ideal. Power went out at 11 am and didn't come back on until 7:30 pm. I kept expecting it to come back on. We had lots of stories. The funniest moments were when my 18 month old dcb was upset because we couldn't do our music class after nap, like we ALWAYS do. He kept pointing to my iPod speakers saying "music please." When I said we couldn't he yelled 'MOTE' (the remote). He was trying desperately to tell me to USE THE REMOTE WOMAN. How do you explain a power outage to a toddler, sigh... He also couldn't understand why we couldn't go outside, and kept trying to get his coat and boots saying, "side!". I was so worried about falling branches (we have a lot of big old trees, and limbs fell and blocked my driveway 3 times today!). Glad today is over and the power is back on... to top it all off, I have a group of 6 guests in my scrapbooking studio for a retreat this weekend, and I had to cook their dinner on my fireplace. My husband was able to hook up a generator in the studio (not in my house) and told them they could have either heat or light. Being scrapbookers, they chose light. They said they could always put on a sweater, but they couldn't scrapbook without proper lighting. That made me laugh out loud.