Where is Ben Franklin when you need him?

**UPDATED FEB 7: We now have power after 45 hours without. Came home from family's house to see our home lit up like a Christmas tree. What a lovely sight it was.**

Today during the "Blizzard of 2010" we woke up to no power. Well, to be fair I woke up to no power at 2:30 this morning. And unfortunately it hasn't come back on since. According to the power company, we are in good company of 206,000 households with no power. And while we haven't had most of the niceities of electricity, we do have a small generator that we can use to run our furnace, refridgerator, and microwave. And folks, when you get about 2 feet of snow, the furnace becomes the ONLY thing that you really want. When we all finally got out of bed this morning it was about 55 degrees in the house!

It's really easy to take for granted normal everyday things that you have until, if only for a while, those things are gone. However, you can also find things that you have forgotten when the normal things are missing. For the first time in our life as a family of 3, we were all in the house and the TV was never on. Don't get me wrong, we are not the poster family for The Couch Potatoes, but Patrick jokingly says "We're paying for it if it's on or off, so it might as well be on". And he does mean it! Morgan's life wasn't changed much....she's one of those kids who watches TV while doing 5 other things. She just really enjoys the background noise, much like her father. Patrick and Morgan played a couple games of dominoes. I found that without the distractions of DVR and Investigation Discovery I was able to actually get our entire kitchen CLEAN. I mean reorganization of the drawers clean (and that's huge for me, trust me). We all took an afternoon nap. And Morgan and I sat down together and worked on a craft. I hardly ever sit down and work one on one with Morgan and I think we both really enjoyed the time, just the two of us.

Right now we are spending some time with our friends Josh and Anna (who graciously allowed us over because they have electricity). We had Chinese food for dinner and now all of us are watching The Aristocats, Morgan's choice but we are all quite captivated. My fortune cookie said that only good things are to come ahead, and I hope that means that when we do head home we see the porch light on! Patrick promised Morgan some time playing in the snow tomorrow, so hopefully I'll be able to upload some of the snow pictures. It is really pretty, if you can get past the no power thing :)

**Patrick said I must put a special thank you to the Robinsons for rescuing us from the death grip of the Storm of the Decade! So a hearty thank you our friends!!!**