Sunday, December 7, 2008

The power outage!

So, since my sister is taking FOREVER to get here, I'm going to tell the story of the power outage.

I was at work with my kids last week. Jack was asleep having his afternoon nap. Chloe was watching an episode of Sponge Bob. It was 4:45, the sun was dropping and it was getting dark fast.
The power just suddenly shut off. I tried to instantly turn it into an adventure so that Chloe wouldn't get scared. She's 5 and sometimes the dark scares her. So I lit a candle quickly and we went upstairs to get Jack who had awoken suddenly when he realized his night light was "AHH" (his version of OFF).
I grabbed him, asked Chloe to run into her room to get her shoes because we're leaving soon. She went in there and by now, it was DARK. It didn't help that she has blackout blinds in her room so any residual light from the neighboring houses that did have electricity WAS NOT coming in at all. She got scared, so we just gave up on that adventure of shoe finding and went downstairs.
I told the kids to wait by the candle, where it was "light" and I went to get the shoes.
I hear Chloe yell, "Darci!!! Lou (their 4 month old puppy) peed!!" I instantly was irritated by this because if it's not one thing, it's another and I was at the end of my patience for this day.

I grabbed the candle that was hard to light in the first place. Their lighter was just about out of fluid and I was actually surprised it lit the first time.
I got close to the floor to try to find the pee so that it wasn't left on the floor.
When I got closer to it...Jack (he's 2) said....

"OOH, FIRE HOT!" He gave it his biggest breathy blow, and OUT GOES THE LIGHT!
It was so funny. It just added to the chaos of it all!

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