Our full weekend of kids' activities was wiped clean by Mother Nature this weekend. We were without power for 87 hours, Thursday night to Monday morning. It definately made us appreciate electricity! We camped out Thursday with sleeping bags. On Friday, it got to 54 degrees in the house. We needed to go someplace where Chester could come too, so we went up north to be with my parents. Both of them weren't feeling the greatest, but they welcomed us, fed us, and put up with 2 cabin-fever boys for the weekend. We came home Sunday night in the hopes of having power, but not so much. Thankfully Chris' mom did, so we borrowed her generator and hunkered down in the basement with 2 space heaters. Monday morning, Chris went off to work and the kids to school. By 1pm, the power flickered back on and I actually hip-hip-hoorayed! We were very lucky to just have lost a few tree limbs--no major damage. Actually, we did have one casualty. Our fish Dax died of the cold. He is now awaiting a proper burial in an Altoid container until the ground thaws.
In other news, here's a picture of our beautiful Christmas tree. Note the green ribbon holding it up through the bolt in the wall! This tree, despite its issues, is probably (to quote Chris' mom) the best tree we ever had. Which is nice because this Christmas has been a pretty weird one so far. With all of the lay offs at work, the economy, the ice storm and missing all the Christmas parties this weekend because of the ice storm, our Christmas spirit is a little frazzled. But we still have some school parties, and lots of family gatherings when the holiday actually gets here. So we have a lot of good right around the corner. Just like the Grinch that stole Christmas---Christmas comes anyway!
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