We haven’t had power since Sunday night and yesterday the girls and I spent the day knitting (they’re really into that right now) and catching up on some house cleaning and organizing. One day without power isn’t so bad. It feels like a free day and those are few and far between for us.

Two days without power starts to get old … and smelly. We had lunch and showers at our friend’s house today and then spent some time at the library checking email and reading.

We’re really hoping there’s not a Day 3.

But that is a possibility. Bummer.

The quote of the day yesterday was from L. as we were washing dishes in cold, rain water (Fino decided to make spaghetti with sauce on the camp stove – nice idea and very tasty but he really didn’t consider the clean-up issue).

“Hey mom, this is like living in the Colonial times huh?”

Yeah, but they didn’t know what they were missing.

We do.

Today I stopped at the store for paper plates; it was worth every penny.