OK, so I don't live in Georgia. And the lights actually went out in the day time. But this song has been going through my head all day long. It has been snowing since yesterday evening and it pretty much hasn't stopped. We have had a few brief pauses today, but not many. And it is coming down again as we speak. Or as I type and you read. This morning the power went out around 9 AM and didn't come on until 1 PM. So, what did we do to stay entertained while the lights were out????
• I showered by candlelight.
• The kids put on their snow suits, gloves, hats, coats, and snow boots and went outside for 2 minutes. Came back inside and took off their snow boots, coats, hats, gloves and snow suits.
• We repeated the above sequence several times until I said they could NOT go outside again.
• We had to smell our stinky gas fireplace that is in the basement. It still stinks in here. But I am VERY grateful we have it. It came in handy.
• We drove remote control cars in the house and chased the baby with them.
• We took great delight in knowing that our outside Christmas lights were actually off for the first time in 3 days and we didn't have to put forth any effort to make them that way.
• The girls got 500 games out and made a big fun to clean up mess.
• I added "can opener" to my grocery list. The electric one just wasn't doing the job.
• Steve, Keven (our juvenile delinquent neighbor) and I had push up contests. Steve won by a long shot. I tied with Keven.
1 comment:
Sounds like you had a lot of fun. I imagine that would be really cold. It was 80 here yesterday and is 40 here now. That's Texas for you.
I can't believe you don't have a manual can opener! Too bad I already bought your Christmas present or I would have gotten you that. :)
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