Lights & Heat

Last Thursday morning around 7:45 we lost our power.  I had a feeling this outage would last longer than a few hours.  We had tentative plans to go to my parents but the roads and conditions were too icy to go any further than our driveway (at least in the minivan).  The boys didn't seem phased by the lack of electricity and played as they usually do.  They did keep asking why things didn't work and we had to constantly tell them it was because we had no power.  

Our power came back on Friday around 3:30.  We were at my parents house and came back home around 7:00. As we were putting the boys to bed the power went out again.  It was 7:45.    The power came back on close to midnight.

I was gone with the boys Saturday afternoon and Brad stayed home to finally do some work.  I received a text message from him around 4:30 that the power went out again. 

This time we were one of 25 homes in our neighborhood (2 streets) that lost their power for the 3rd time.  Since we were not high on the priority list we were informed that our power might be out until Wednesday.  Our friends, the Welkes, invited us to stay with them.  So we spent two nights and two days with them.  They were great hosts.

We are happy to report that we are back home with the lights and heat on.  (Our only problem is our computer continues to give us some trouble, which is why I have no pictures)