Pioneers

Today we pretended to be pioneers. We lost our electricity two different times today for a total of about 5 hours due to some high winds in the area.

The first time we lost power was right at naptime and the second time was at bedtime tonight. It is amazing how hard it is to get kids to go to bed when the house is pitch dark. The loss of electricity causes a lot of emotional turmoil.

So we let the kids go to bed with flashlights. They each have an animal flashlight that makes noise when you open the mouth and turn it on. We have a rooster, a horse, and a cow.

You can imagine what it sounded like upstairs tonight at bedtime. Between the crowing, neighing, and mooing I was ready to go out and buy a generator!

In between the power outages we visited Santa again at the community center. I was hoping to get some more pictures of the kids possibly with smiles this time, but it wasn't meant to be. My camera's memory card was full and wouldn't allow me to delete any pictures so I ended up using a friend's camera. She is going to email the pictures to me.

Needless to say I didn't get much done from my to-do list today, but tomorrow's another day...as long as we aren't pretending to be pioneers again!