10 Things I LOVE......

about having ELECTRICITY!!! yup that's right it's one thing you take for granted until you are without it for 36 hours. Sunday at 4pm we went dark here in Ohio. Lucky for me Wyatt flew to Colorado (where they DO have power) first thing Monday morning. So that begins a period of what I am calling "Camping on Creekwood" by pioneer mom Jane Morris. Monday began as most do with feeding Maggie a bottle (still had some, not very, but hot enough) hot water to make her happy. Then in the car and to the nearest Starbuck's with power that I could find. Mama needs some caffeine to get through this one. Then we also found a breakfast place with power so we went and ate a longer then usual breakfast (to delay having to go home). Then we went to Target and then back home. Meanwhile mind you I am having to manually open and close my garage door every time I come and go. My 2 neighbors also have 2 small children each and their husbands were gone too. We were some serious desperate housewives for sure. We went to lunch at McDonald's and then home for naps. During my very very quiet time I decided to check the mail it was then that I remembered that I need to be checking my sump pump- a thing in a basement basically a hole in the ground with a pump in it that pumps out water to keep your basement from flooding and yup you guessed it runs on ELECTRICITY. Wyatt checked it before he left and we do have a battery back up but apparently it does not last very long. With flash light in tow I am off to the basement and the water is about 4 inches from the top of the hole. I get my bucket and my big cup and start baling water into the bucket and up the stairs and out the door and water the flowers. Repeat. repeat. repeat. At this point I am feeling like a pioneer woman for sure. I get the water down about 4 inches and then I take a cold shower. By this time my neighbors husband is home and comes down to help me and tries to hook the sump pump up to my car battery with some device and it does not work so I keep bailing 3-5 buckets every hour. Once the kids went to bed and it was pitch black in my house I boiled some water in a pot on my gas grill to sterilize Maggie's nipples for her bottles the next day and then I washed dishes by candle light in cold water. The power returned Tuesday morning at 5 am. Praise God!! Yesterday we hit the grocery and I washed laundry (anything i could find just to do it because i could), ran the dishwasher (rewashing hand washed dishes from the day before), baked cupcakes(just cause),took a HOT shower,gave Julia a much needed bath, and made coffee!!! SOOO 10 things I LOVE about electricity are:

10. a working garage door and sump pump
9. microwaving ANYTHING
8. ceiling fans
7. coffee pot
6. hot showers
5. drying my hair
4. using a fridge rather then a cooler on my deck
3. dishwashers
2. being able to cook something for my kids
1. going to the bathroom with out a flashlight

I did take some pics of the girls playing together that I will put up.




Then Julia took over:

She calls this one "Maggie with no face"

Smile Daddy!