A late Monday confessional

Some of you may be wondering what happened to my regularly scheduled Monday Confessional. You know, because it's Monday and all. Well I have a good excuse. 

WE HAD A MAJOR WIND STORM AND LOST POWER AND ALMOST DIED IS WHAT HAPPENED!

Except scratch the almost dying part. Only my children thought that, who are obviously too attached to today's technological advances, and were so full of whines and complaints of "I"m booooored" after the first couple of hours without electricity that I was ready to pull my hair out. 

I took my regularly scheduled Sunday afternoon nap with Blake instead. And then suggested dinner out. Russ suggested I was a little bit too delighted to not have power just so I wouldn't have to cook. Hey, I'll take any excuse I can get. So we ventured into town for dinner but before you go thinking we had a delightful meal out and all, you should know that we went to McDonald's drive-thru. I might have done better sticking with cold cereal.

At this point we had the evening to kill and a cold and dark house to go home to, which wasn't sounding very tempting, so I sent a text to my mother asking if they had power and explaining ours was out. 

"If you don't have power how are you texting?" she replied.

And then quickly followed that up with a "don't answer that!"

Good thing, because she was about to get a "MUM! Seriously!!" from me. Instead, I teased her throughout the rest of the night because my parents did have power so we went over there and played games until 10:00 pm. Before we left we called home to see if our answering machine would come on (a sign that the power was back on) and had no luck so I asked Mum if I could borrow her laptop again to use her battery power up at home writing a quick blog post. 

She agreed and I left quite happily, even when we saw that most everyone else's power was back on all the way up until 1/2 a mile from our house where we discovered a down power line across the road, and no one even working on it yet. A sure sign that our power wasn't about to come on any second. We reported the line, bundled the kids in bed and layered them with extra blankets, and Russ went to bed as well while I cuddled up in front of the fire, turned on the laptop, and tried to connect to the internet. 

Which is when I realized I was an idiot because how was I supposed to do that with NO POWER TO RUN OUR WIRELESS ROUTER?  The apple doesn't fall far from the airheaded moment tree... 

I called into the bedroom: "I didn't think this out very well, honey...", and then called Mum to tell her I was sorry for making fun of her because I was just as ditzy as she was. It was a lovely bonding moment filled with much laughing at each other. 

Anyways, our power is finally back on. And I had to cook dinner tonight so I'm not sure how great of a thing that actually is, but the children sure are happy!

I kid. I missed you internet world!!