Things To Do During A Power Outage

• Dust furniture
• Fold clean laundry
• Drink lukewarm coffee
• Eat graham crackers
• Listen to iTunes collection for at least 3 hours and 23 minutes (time remaining on laptop battery).
• Read NPR page that is already loaded
• Write a blog entry with a pen and paper
• Be thankful my kids aren't TV folks and are happily playing in the playroom
• Be thankful that toilets don't require electricity to flush
• Marvel at the infrastructure of our country
• Remember time spent in the third world when the electricity was turned off by the government nearly every evening at sunset. Actually not such a bad thing. More candle light, more guitar playing, more song writing in those days.
• Listen to my children play and notice that Paul is imitating "I see you" fairly accurately. "I ee oo"
• Play "BSF" with Luke which always involves a Bible story, questions and answer time, and hymn time. And don't forget snack.
• Use the Old School kitchen timer for time outs. BRRRING!!!
• Explain to Paul that the electric piano won't work without electricity to which he responds, "Oh."

The power was only out for about forty-five minutes. I still have no idea what happened, but I was very thankful that it came back on before lunch time.

Later I thought of the idea of taking pictures. So here are a few shots after our power outage was over. The list is only comprised of things we actually did during the outage. Anyway, here are a few of the pics from today.

Snack time on the kitchen floor.

King Pharaoh in his palace trying to decide if he is going to let the Israelite people go...nine times out of ten, Luke gets to say, "NO!" to Moses, played by Mommy. Can you see why he likes this game so much?

Happy Paul