It's Electric!

And we finally have it at our house!!!!! Sorry for the hiatus in blogging! We have been without power for 8 days! We finally got power back Saturday night and I am so so thankful!  We are so lucky that we had a generator so we were able to save all the food in BOTH our freezers and be warm and somewhat comfortable at home for the week.  We did have to splurge on a new generator after we realized the old one stopped running our heat and spent one night in the cold and dark.  There are a few things I have learned from this experience!

1. I could actually live without my microwave and not having it actually made me cook healthier food!
2. We all have way to much clothing! I had already been behind on laundry and we still had plenty of cute outfits to wear for the whole week and beyond! (since I am still catching up)
3.  My child and I will survive without showers everyday! I had been completely on a shower every day schedule, until we couldn't shower at all and realized we survived and were not completely filthy! Might be on the shower every other day schedule from now on!
4. We live on the wrong end of the neighborhood! (The other 1/2 of our street got power back after a day or 2!!!)
5. Our local fire company has many dedicated volunteers that deserve to be recognized more often!

Soooo thankful for the hardworking people who got the power back to us.  I know they spent alot of time away from their families and without sleep to get our power back.  I am still amazed at the devastation caused by the storms in our area.  Thankfully our property only lost a few small trees, but it wasn't the same for all our neighbors! God bless everyone who is working hard to get things back to normal!

Hubby working hard on the clean up