I can’t tell you how happy I am to be blogging right now. I’m so happy I am able to blog right now because that means we got our electricity back. Yesterday, we had no electricity from 9 am up to 12:00 mn. That’s a whopping 15 hours of no electricity all because of another storm that passed by the country and wrecked havoc everywhere. Well, my family and I are safe and there wasn’t any damage to our house or anything like that. Our area is also not prone to flooding except for that small creek outside our village, but that’s quite far from here. I am thankful for those things but I can’t help but gripe about not having electricity for 15 hours. I mean, can you blame me? Okay, so 4 out of those 15 hours, we were actually at the mall doing groceries and running errands but that still left 11 hours spent at home with no electricity.
Not having electricity at our house means that I had three bored children whom I needed to entertain. There was no TV and no video games to pass the time. Luckily, my girls were content just drawing stuff and playing with some toys. I even got to draw some myself. Ziggy, on the other hand, wasn’t really bored but was a bit cranky that time. I was just so happy that I was able to wash and sterilize his bottles earlier that day before the power outage so that was one less thing to worry about. It was easier to handle them when it was still light outside but I was really worried about having to deal with no power at night.
I had to prepare early, which means we had dinner at 5 pm and had the kids get ready for bed immediately after. So by 6 pm when it was already dark out we all had nothing to do anymore. The girls, who were scared of the dark, held their cellphones the whole time because they had flashlights. They also kept following Ziggy and I wherever we went. So, we pretty much ended up staying in one room the whole night. Needless to say, the girls slept in our bedroom that night. It was a good thing that Kai had work that night and so the three kids and I actually fit in the room. It was bedtime for all of us by 9 pm. I don’t even remember the last time I was able to sleep that early.
Anyway, it was really a stressful day but as I looked at my three kids all surrounding me that night as they slept, I couldn’t feel anything but happiness. Having them all sleep with me in the room is not something we do often. Seeing all of them there, I still couldn’t quite believe that I’m a mom of three. God gave me three precious gifts. Despite the fact that it was a cold, stormy night and that there was no electricity, I couldn’t help but feel blessed.
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Oh, that would be so hard. I don’t realize how much I depend on electricity til ours is out!