No Power...

Well, we now know that we can kinda survive without power, as long as we can still make it to the store- thank goodness that some of the stores were open. After remnants from Hurricane Ike hit Columbus we had NO power!!!! At first it was fine, we thought it would be right back on, SO not the case. We called the power company on Sunday and got a recording that said to plan for 7 DAYS!!!!! I started to freak out. Blayne went to the store and got a car charger for our phones and some powdered milk for Ava, which she refused to drink. Luckily she still eats a lot of baby food since she is a slow teether, so she didn't notice that much of a difference, since she goes to bed about when it starts to get dark anyway. After staring at the wall all night that first night, Blayne got out our games the next day, so we had a nice game of candlelight Scrabble. But man, does this ever make you realize what kind of things you need to keep in your food storage, if we couldn't have gone to the store, I honestly don't know what we would have done. After only 2 1/2 days of peanut butter and honey sandwiches and fast food, and 1 cold shower the power returned, just in time for the disappointing final episode of Big Brother- Dan- come on!!!! Anyway, I don't think I have ever been as excited as when the lights came on while I was reading next to a candle, I started jumping up and down, trying to be quiet, since Ava was sleeping, but man, was I relieved!!! The whole time I just had to keep reminding myself that it DEFINITELY could have been worse, and thank goodness it wasn't!