Some of you maybe saw on Facebook, but last night, the power went out while Brady, Cher, and I were watching a movie. We were watching “The Day After Tomorrow.”
Now, I haven’t seen the movie before, but we were about 45 minutes into it, so I can sum it up a little. I’m pretty sure its a live action, Dennis Quaid version of Ice Age. Sans squirrel, of course. Hail the size of people’s heads. Cold that freezes people on contact. Wind that throws cars around and takes buildings out. So naturally, we decided to watch it during the craziest winter storm we’ve had in a long, long time.
So as I said, we were about 45 minutes in, and then the power cut out. The three of us kind of sat in silence for a second or two before we came back to reality. The outage fit with the movie WAY too smoothly, hahaha! The basement was pitch black. Dekker lulled from sleep, and was a little worried. He came out and gave hugs, and went back to bed pretty easily. The three of us clicked our phone flashlights on and made our way upstairs to watch the storm. The power tried to come on once or twice, which made our smoke alarms scream like crazy, which then lulled Laela. She was pretty nervous but we hugged her and reassured her, and she, too, went back to bed. I have some really sweet pictures of that, actually, but she’s in her little gitchies so I can’t post them on here. Merp.
Finally, the three of us settled in for some Skipbo by candlelight.
I’ve always felt very unsettled going to bed when the power is still out. Its hard not knowing. Thankfully, we waited the storm out and power was restored!!!! We are SO fortunate to have the dedicated teams of people working so hard to get power back on! I know not every town was so lucky.
The three of us lurked in the living room until shortly after 11:00pm, really wanting to ensure that the power would stay on. And it did! Brady and I went to sleep with our fan going, and it was still on when we woke up!
The kids are home from school today, which makes sense. Brady already had arranged to take today at home, so that worked in his favor. So its a whole family party!
Maybe we’ll finally take our Christmas tree down, haha!
Though its looking pretty “white Christmasy” outside…