What a day!

Thursday night, we went to bed to pouring rain outside. We woke up to massive snow. The north side of our house had so much snow stuck to the windows that it was impossible to see out. Out the front of the house it was snowing so hard that I couldnt see across the street. Isaac's playdate/egg dying date was canceled due to road conditions.

Shortly after 830, the electricity started flashing on and off. About 900 am it went off for good. So then Isaac was mad that we couldn't color eggs at all, we couldnt boil eggs without power. Also, in our co-op no electricity means very little water pressure and/or water since the water pump is electrical too.

About 100, we were starting to get cold, so I called Todd at work who talked me through how to take the fireplace off of electricity and put it on batteries. So then we could hang out down there and at least be warm even though it was a lot darker than in the living room.

Todd got home from work about 220 since his place of employment did not have snow removal lined up and they didn't want any one to be stuck there for the weekend. He had also talked to the power company about the outage, I guess they had a lot of lines down so they told him to expect 2-3 days. So we had a plan all in place. Isaac could sleep in the family room and try out our new hide a bed couch, we could use the guest bed. The fireplace would be able to keep both those rooms warm. We filled up some water jugs for when the water tank was empty, and we could cook in the camper which uses gas, or on the grill in necessary.

But luckily, the power came back on around 330, it was flashy at first, but then stayed on. Wow we were so fortunate. I just pray that the rest of the outage was fixed just as quickly.

Spring?

It really feels like spring around here. It was 70 degrees today, and warm yesterday too. We went for a walk yesterday around our neighborhood and visited with several neighbors that we haven't talked to since fall. Isaac and the neighbor girl have played together two days in a row now; riding bikes, playing soccer, playing baseball, and throwing snowballs. And the dog is too wet to be allowed in the house, so it must be spring!!

Isaac funnies for March

Isaac's class is making a chart about "lion" days and "lamb" days for March. As he was explaining this to me, he adds, "then at the end of the month, the winner gets to eat the loser. I hope the lion wins, then it will get to eat the lamb!"

At OT the other day, Isaac was supposed to throw beanbag fish into hoops. The therapist tells him, "here are the fish, can you get them in their tanks?" So he starts throwing the fish with out much luck. One fish hit a hoop but bounced out. The therapist encouraged him with "that was good, Isaac." So he responds with, "Yeah at least it got wet! It should be ok for a little while."

What the Friday?

I was driving home the other day after picking up my son from school, and at a stop light I saw a car coming towards us and the lady’s hair looked odd, as she got closer to the light, I realized that the woman had a CAT on her head. Yes, the pet kind. She turned at the light, and then turned into the veterinary clinic. Isaac and I both got a good laugh out of that.

And since I have skipped a couple of Fridays, here is another one...

Lindsay Lohan is suing the Etrade babies for using the name "Lindsay". Really because it is such an uncommon name that only SHE can have it. What a spoiled brat. I mean what kind of person sues babies??

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/lindsay-lohan-suing-e-trade-for-milkaholic-parody/37130

What the Friday

For the last two weeks, my shows have not been on tv thanks to the olympics which is understandable, almost. But I cannot understand why they have to put the class B basketball games on tv during my tv time! Really, anyone who cares about the games is probably in town to watch them anyway.

Career goals

It is always amusing to talk to children about what they will be when they grow up. At 3, Isaac wanted to be a road train truck driver that hauls basketballs through Austrailia. At 4, he commented that it would be safer to work at McDonalds, since you could pinch your fingers in the drive thru window at Hardees. Not that he wanted to work at a drive thru, he wanted to be a "destruction" worker.

Now the other day, he was asking all kinds of questions about compter games and programming computers, so now he has decided that making computer games would be a lot like playing all day so maybe he will do that when he grows up.

It will be interesting to see what he really ends up doing.

Chicken Nugget Sandwiches?

The other day when I picked up Isaac after work, we were visiting about his day and he told me he had macaroni and cheese and chicken nugget sandwiches for lunch. so I just had to ask, so you put your chicken nuggets on bread? (I figured he wanted to be like his father. Todd is constantly putting anything he eats on bread to make a sandwich.) He replied with, no mom, my babysitter made sandwiches out of big chicken nuggets! I had to try not to laugh at him...he is too cute...