Powerless

We had a nasty storm on Thursday morning right when the kids woke up. It was so dark in my room (at 0745) that I thought it was still night...maybe that was wishful thinking. It never really rained that much but was really windy with lots of thunder and lightening. Both boys were already awake and in the bed with me watching Little Bear. When it would thunder, Ethan would say, "I'm going to shoot my web-slingers at the thunder!" Then he would stand up on the bed and shoot spider webs at the windows and say, "Be quiet thunder!" I guess he didn't inherit my crazy fear of storms. At 0800 there was a huge clap of thunder and the lights went out. Ethan looked a little concerned with this new development but got pretty excited when I told him we needed to go light some candles and find the flashlights.

I opened all the blinds but it was still really dark. I decided that maybe God did this so I could spend some quality time with the kids without having to worry about doing laundry and running the dishwasher. It was fun for the first hour or so playing with flashlights and sitting around the candles. I told Ethan to sing some songs to Caleb. I told him to sing Jesus Loves Me. So he belted out his favorite song "Don't you Forget About Me" from the Breakfast Club and refused to sing Jesus Loves Me. Where did I go wrong? Oh well, Caleb didn't care what he was singing. He just enjoyed the entertainment. We also got out the Spiderman tent and put pillows and blankets in it and camped out for a while.

Fast forward several hours. It is now 1:00pm and I still have no power. After several different phone calls to several different people and having to wait for an automated system to call me back, I found out that the power should be on by 3:30pm. That was doable. I got the portable DVD player out of the car and prayed for battery power. Whew, it worked. He watched Ice Age 2 while Caleb and I dozed off and on on the couch. Well, 3:30 came and went and still there was no power. The house was getting hot and the natives were getting restless so I escaped to mom and dad's. We stayed there till Mondo got home from work then it was off to Chuck E Cheese for dinner. Joy.

We got home around 8:15pm to find lights on (I hear they came on around 7:30pm). I never realized how much I take for granted. It takes electricity to run everything!!! I will gladly pay my bill next month without complaint.