24 hours

 

This week we were warned and warned that a bad storm was coming and that school might be cancelled and it really happened!

 

Wednesday night it stated snowing and didn't stop.  I got a call that night at 10:30pm that school was going to be cancelled the next day.  Then the wind started blowing and at 3:00am Thursday our power went out and came back on exactly 24 hours later at 3:00am Friday.  School was cancelled on Friday also, which meant Winter Break started 2 days early.

 

 

 

The kids got a quick lesson on how important electricity and how many things use electricity...above is a list that the girls made of things that "can't work" and things that "can work" (Olivia copied one two but I couldn't find her's).  We did have out gas fireplace which helped a little bit with warmth.  And then we had a lot of people help us....at lunch time Bro, Foster in our ward brought us McDonald's on his way to work, that was VERY nice of him and our neighbor brought over his snow blower while his wife and Carrie, my other neighbor help dig out of the driveway entrance, while the kids played in the snow.

 

 Jason had been at work all day and was surprised that we still didn't have power when he got home so we went to IHOP for dinner.  We also had friends offer to have us sleep at their house but we decided we would be just fine sleeping in front of the fire so we got a lot of blankets and went to bed.  It was actually fun having a family sleepover (I actually got a little hot and had to take off some blankets).  Jason had to work the next day so he slept upstairs, he sleeps better in the cold anyways, so it worked out fine.

 

  

I wouldn't want to do it all the time but it was kind of fun for a day!