Ode to Electricity…

March 16, 2010

Our power was off today as electrical crews switched out a transformer up the street.  They also cleaned up a 60-foot pine that had fallen across the road and taken the transformer with it.  Ooh the adorables loved the excitement.

In the midst of this, we at home had loads of quiet on our hands.

Serendipitously (and I even spelled that word correct on the first try!), the elder adorable decided it was time to decorate his room for Easter.  So just this morning I had printed off 8 Easter Eggs onto white card stock, thinking it would be a nice quiet project for the day.  You can find the Easter Egg Coloring pages here for – they’re free.

So then the power went out and it was all dark on the western front.

(I’m being dramatic about my 7-hour power outage, but many others here in Greenwich have been out since Saturday with no hope of any electrical juice until Wednesday.)

Looking at my to-do list, there wasn’t a single thing on it that didn’t necessitate power, and an internet connection.  Holy Moly.

So we colored…

And colored.

Then the elder adorable stopped and said, “Mom, I love coloring with you.”

I went a little white.  We play lots of board games, we read lots of books, we play floor hockey in the basement (and seriously I work hard to not get smoked), but very often I get him all set up for an activity and get back to my work.   It was really fun to just be there with him, without anything else I should be doing. I know he could feel the difference.

But the real reason I’m telling you all this is that tonight when we returned home – VOILA! the lights were on – and we hung our hard work around the ceiling of his room.

Obviously this isn’t a professional installation.  We used wrapping ribbon (the thin kind that you coil with scissors – why can’t I think of its proper name??), tape, and paper clips to attach the eggs.  Now elder adorable feels all ready for Easter.

And I’m back to my to-do list.

(Hooray, power!)

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