Snow Day

“Mommy….the Wii is broken!”  No kiddies, the power just went out. 

Last week we had our version of a snow day.  The power went out throughout SD county and they said it would be out for about a day and a half.  School was cancelled for the next day.  Woo-Hoo!  (woo-hoo for the kids anyway, the bummer part was that all 3 kids were going to school on Friday and I wasn’t working in the classroom, so I was looking forward to my 2 1/2 hours of complete ALONE time…but suddenly didn’t get because now I was going to have the kids home all day)  Long story short, the outage only lasted about 7 hours but the kids LOVED it.  We broke out the candles and flashlights and ate popsicles for dinner.  All the neighbor kids were out prowling the street for a few hours with flashlights.  The next day they could have gone to school, but since they had already sent out the message all schools would be closed, they a freebie day off, with electricity.   Sweet!