It is good to have juice

The electricity has been off a lot today. The power folks were really nice when I called to report it, but it took a long time to get it going. Ellie, of course, was about to burst from excitement.

Linda can't walk in the dark, so I had planned ahead for days like today. We have quite a few candles, a variety of flashlights, and an led lantern that is supposed to be able to run for a week on a set of batteries. It seemed like a lot, but we could use more light. Maybe Santa will restock us even better in a couple of weeks.

The power company did get the power on for about 40 minutes at supper time, just enough time to cook something hot which we ate in the dark. They were great about calling back to see if our power was back on, and they were a bit disappointed to learn that the power had only been fixed a short time before it broke again.

It seems to be more permanently fixed now.

I need better plans for things to occupy Ellie when the lights are out. I wasn't as creative as I could have been. I realized later that her Leap Pad would have been great, since she knows many sight words from school now and she's better at it than ever. I'm also thinking a stash of "clean" coloring books ought to be hidden away somewhere. As it was, she did a pretty good job being occupied.