Bedtime at our house!!!!

Our lights finally came on today. It's been a trying couple of days.

On Wednesday night, an electrical box decided to go out, in the middle of getting Logan in the bathtub. Not a pleasant experience for him. After spending 45 minutes (at 10:30pm) trying to figure out the problem, we decided to call it a night and figure it out in the morning. After a quick trip to the lumber store first thing in the morning in the off chance that it was just the fuses, NOT, we called the well people. They came later in the day and fixed it in about 20 minutes. Yeah, WATER! All this while we were trying to prep for "the big storm".

Then we woke up Friday morning with no power. The kids were full of questions about the olden days and how they managed. It was the perfect chance to continue our reading for the Laura Ingalls books; however, it was way too dark for my eyes. We crashed grandma's house for dinner, some light, some flushing toilets, running water and some much needed warmth. We finally broke away from all the modern conviences and headed back to our cold dark house, after filling up all our water containers.

The next morning we still had no water, but Logan had left a very wet, smelly present in our bed. So off the sheets came! Daddy wasn't a very happy camper at all! Poor Logan had a cold wet wipee bath! Despite the continued power outage we had a good breakfast of french toast and sausage. Yumm! The kids were a little surprised at such a meal for being in the dark. The plan was to go to grandma's house after breakfast to shower and wash the sheets. But, as mom was washing dishes and daddy was playing a game with the kids, we were blinded by light and blasted with the noise of the refrigerator, the fan from the stove and the cheers from the kids! Daddy was quick to sound the warning that it may not last. So after the mad dash to the flushing toilets, the filling up of water bottles and water tank in

the motorhome, the starting of laundry and a quick vacuum of the house we settled in with crossed fingers praying that the light would stay. And so far it has. It did flicker a couple of times, but it stayed on.
So after dinner and showers tonight we all settled in the living room (carpet room as the kids all call it) to play Speed Uno. Of course when we were done, mom said, "Bedtime". Well, dad had other ideas! Fine, he can get the kids in bed! There is no way I'm touching that one! And yes, it was a long time in getting to sleep!