Our power went out at 6:20 a.m. on Sunday. Do you KNOW when it was restored? 2:15 p.m. on THURSDAY. The day after Christmas.
Oh lawdy.
For Sunday and Monday and part of Tuesday, we totally kicked it pioneer style, except we don't have an outhouse so our bathroom became an in-house and can I just emphasize for a second the glory of running water? Functioning indoor plumbing? I mean, the no lights, the no heat- you can imagine how one deals with that. But no water? No washing of the anything? No drinking it? No cooking with it? The no flushing of the toilets? It ain't pretty, my friends. Not pretty at all.
Luckily on Tuesday afternoon (that's Christmas Eve if you're keeping track), a friend of ours whose power had been restored came over with their generator and hooked it up with Tommy so that we could have some dang old Christmas lights on our dang old tree. And we could flush the dang old toilet. Still no hot water heater or major appliances but my LORD what a relief it was to know we could have some semblance of normalcy come Christmas morning.
So! We did! I'm sure I have some photos around here somewhere. But somehow it's 5:18 and people are asking me what's for dinner and I'm like "isn't this vacation time?" See, Tommy is on vacation, so he doesn't have to go to work. To me COOKING is my work. It is my most loathsome household task. So when he is on vacation my brain tells me that I'm also on vacation and then people are hungry. Super unfair.
That's my long way of saying that Christmas photos will have to wait. But I promised myself belly pics on even weeks during this pregnancy and by golly I'm doing it.
Presenting, unrelated to anything in this post, enormous 16 week belly of enormousness. Feel free to go back two weeks and marvel at the growth. I dare you!
DANG I know a handful of other Michiganders that were out of power too - you would think thats a kind of problem that would get fixed qucikly? Hm..
ReplyDeleteYou're looking beautiful - I'm at 26 weeks pregnant this week with babe #1, and I can't believe how fast its going! The fact that active motherhood is imminently approaching is freaking me out way more than anything else, which is weird I guess. But its still all so exciting:)
God Bless you all during the Christmas Octave!
It's a beautiful belly!
ReplyDeleteLooking good D! Sorry about the power though :(
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pregnant tummy! Can't wait to see the sweet precious baby!
ReplyDeleteJust heard this morning about the 10,000 Michigan families who have been without power this week. You would think that would be a bigger news story than people who order a present the day before Christmas and pout because they don't get it in time . ..
ReplyDeleteMy husband told me it was 87,000 families. Crazy!
DeleteBeautiful belly...rub rub rub!
ReplyDeleteUgh I'm so sorry to hear about the power outage. We live in Louisiana and lose power pretty much every time it storms. Every time it happens, I am reminded how quickly I would poorly I would fare in a zombie apocalypse, nationwide power outage, what have you. It sounds like you handled the unfortunate situation a lot better than I would have! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd super cute belly, btw. You look great!
Baby in dat belly!! :D :D
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry to hear about your power... at least it's back on now, though.
Love the belly! Poking out - but still small - you look adorable! Glad you have power again.
ReplyDeleteso happy you have power restored...so very happy for you all. I think you look fabulous. Loving that baby belly!!
ReplyDeleteYou look beautiful with that bump!
ReplyDeleteWe're still waiting on our power here. A neighbor just emailed me and said that a lineman told her it might be two weeks for our street. And right now I'm pretty sure that two weeks without power is going to kill me. I would not have survived in a time before electricity!
My husband likes the idea of living a ruralish life. Then I read things like this and am SO thankful we live close to a city - power outages don't effect our water. Glad your life is getting back to normal!
ReplyDeleteYay for friends with generators! And your belly pic is beautiful. :)
ReplyDeleteBut how did you deal with no heat? It has been freeeezing up here in Ottawa this week. Jeanette
ReplyDeleteThe fireplace. We camped out in the den.
DeleteI'm betting no one will be forgetting that Christmas any time soon!
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a wooded, rural part of Canada and sometimes we'll be without power for a day or two because trees fall on the lines and we're lower priority than town. My parents have a real wood stove, the kind you can cook & bake on, and I have fond memories of the rare times my mum actually had to cook on it because there was no alternative. As soon as the lights flicker she runs to fill up the bathtubs and sinks with water (for flushing toilets etc) and stores up jugs of drinking water. It's always very cozy. BUT it's Western Canada, so we don't get the freezing cold or ice storms, and my Gramma lives in town and always gets her power back first, so there's always a lit place to stay. So glad you had access to a generator!
wow, my husband is also on vacation, can he cook? no, super unfair, i`m cooking yet... :-)
ReplyDeleteYou had me at fart face... Glad you have the power back, Borobias!
ReplyDeleteDwija, what a lovely belly pic! You look just beautiful. A Christmas without poet sounds daunting! So glad you had a generator and working toilet on Christmas Day!
ReplyDeleteYou are KILLING me with that glorious belly. Ummmmm.... Yeah.
ReplyDeleteNo power? Or water? Or sanity? On Christmas? Maybe God thought He would give you a holy Bethlehem experience or something???
Dang girl. You went through all that but still manage to look gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteFart Face!!! Bwaaahaaaahaaa!!!
ReplyDeleteWowzers lady, that is the most adventurous Christmas I've ever heard of...you look so beautiful at 16 weeks; hope the baby's health is well:)
ReplyDeleteAlways, always, always store some toilet flushing water in some out of the way place, laundry room! I use old cat litter plastic jugs. Then an adult pours it in the back of toilet and yipee, flushing! Always store a few gallon drinking water jugs in laundry room, too. So happy you all survived! Lots of love in your house. I was worried about you, since you didn't post. So happy the prayer reason was utilitarian, not health! :) Merry 12 Days of Christmas, Happy Feast Days and a Blessed New Year! So happy you are back online! Sheryl in Puget Sound
ReplyDeleteYou look beautiful with a baby in you. You look beautiful without a baby in you. You're just a beaut.
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way about cooking during holiday/ vacation time. So glad your power is back on, and love the belly pict.!
ReplyDeleteHere I am - a year late - hahahaha ok, sorry, lame joke! But you are so incredibly incredible belly awesome! Yay for babies! I think I've taken two belly shots - one for sure - annnnd I'm 25 (i think?) weeks along. Er mah...gotta get to picture takin' I guess!
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