ARGGGG....We went out for paper towels this evening! That's it, nothing else. So I had a total of like $5.00 in my pocket. We all went, just to get out of the house. Well, we get back from the store and notice that all the lights in our neighborhood our out, even the stoplights and the streetlights...it's a ghost town!! The town restaurant has it's lights out and everything. So we realize it's a huge power outage.
Really smart people we are, we pull into our driveway and click the garage door opener...
ummm..it's not working??? WELL DUH! NO POWER!! We didn't have an keys on us! So we were locked out of our house with 3 kids who were ready to eat dinner (I had tamales waiting for us inside) and NO MONEY!! We call ComEd and find out the power is expected to be restored in a few hours!! AUGHHH!!! So we catch my bank open thank goodness, and I had to do a signature withdrawl, since I didn't have my ID with me!!! It was the day from heck! hahaa! We started to plan in case the power stayed out for the whole night. Husband wanted to go over to my parents house, so we had to buy clothes, and all the little stuff. Thank goodness I always have a change of clothes for the kids in the car and my breast pump! We took the kids to TARGET and hung out there with juice and popcorn, the place was loaded with people from teh meighborhood!! Everyone wanting to go somewhere warm! Moments like this made us realize we need a fireplace in the new house! hahaha!!
After that we hit up the big antique barn that is one of my faves! I got lots of neat-o goodies, that I will have to photograph later and show you all! I love antique stores :) It's a passion!
Since the kids had filled up a bit on popcorn and juice and milk and then gotten tired walking the antique store, we decided to try the house again and if no lights yet, then we would head out to dinner somewhere out of the neighborhood! When we got close we saw everything was back on though, so YAAYY!! We quickly put a spare set of keys in the van and got dinner on the table!!
Have I mentioned how wonderful it is to be married to someone that actually DOES something around the house :) and with the kids!! It's AWESOME! We have church tomorrow and then we're just going to Veg out!!
I will post pics of my awesome finds later!! Husband adn I are going to put the kids to bed and then it's monopoly night!
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JASAHM, your blog is fun to read. You crack me up!
Our electricity went off last weekend, just as I was getting ready to go to my dad's family's Christmas party. I remember thinking, "should I dry my hair first or do my makeup." I KNEW I should've done the hair first! Soon as I got my mascara on. BLINK --out with the lights. No hair dryer. UGH!
Oh, and hey, I wanna bring the 80s back, too. I think we could do 'em better the 2nd time around. ;)
I totally think we could do it better!!!
I would have done make up first too! i'm a fan of sticking my head out the moving car window and calling that hair drying! hahaha!
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