I'm doubly disappointed because we had that lovely blizzard blow through in the last 36 hours. There were so many times I wanted to take a picture: When the snow was whitewashing everything, when the kids were huddled under 20 blankets in the living room, when Joshua was outside commando crawling through the tunnels he'd dug in the snow, when Dan was shoveling the walk for the 5th time and you could see that the snow was getting really deep..... And I'm totally going to want pictures tomorrow, because I AM going to build an Igloo. Perhaps that is not really an appropriate Sunday activity. ....Perhaps Heavenly Father should have thought of that before sending a blizzard that had us without power for nearly 24 hours. Yeah, how bout that?!
I'll address the power issue first. I was pleased that it stayed on long enough for us to watch The Soup last night. Then it went out. I collected all the candles, lit enough so the kids wouldn't freak out if they woke up to no night lights, and went to bed. I can't sleep in such silence, when its not really silent, so that was crummy.
This morning there was still no power. I didn't want the kids to go outside only to come back in to a cold house. It was around 60 degrees in here this morning. I called the power company and they said it was slated for a 1pm return to power. Yay! I let the kids go out and they had fun. Joshua was out most of the day having a marvelous time and saturating everything he had on. The stove is gas, so we had a cook-top and were able to make gallons of hot cocoa.
1pm came and went. I called at 3 and was told, it was still listed as 1 which meant the crews were out at work and we should have power before night. Yay. But no power. We had spaghetti by candlelight for dinner and set up tents in the kids rooms. It was warmer in them and they loved burrowing under piles of blankets. It was 53 degrees in the house by then. I called and was told 8pm was when the power should come on, and I felt happier. And to my great delight, it came on at 7:45. Joyous day! My heater is now trying to make up for lost time and I am thrilled to have light. I hate the dark and candlelight is so dim.
And that was my day. Well, it was most of my day. Delaney won't go to sleep and is currently having a meltdown about a diaper, but she doesn't want help, and she's tired. The house is slowly warming, and I'm glad I do not have to worry about Rylee freezing or anything now.
So, the city is shut down. While there has been no official word yet about church, I expect that is only because the bishop has no power and can't tell us. I doubt anyone will attempt to go tomorrow. There's got to be close to 3 feet of snow in our yard, not counting the drifts. This is why I am excited to get out there tomorrow! We'll have a family devotional in the morning and then go out to play. I think I have wash I need to finish so their snow stuff will be dry.
And tomorrow I shall cry bitter tears that I do not have a functioning camera.
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