break

we had an eventful christmas break.

christmas day, the gas heat stopped working. thankfully, the house has both gas and electric heat, so we just turned on the electric heat, and went on with our day. it started working the next day, and on thursday, stopped again. i called and let the landlord know. she had someone come the next day and fix it.

the day the heating guy showed up to fix the heater, the power went out. he checked what he could without the use of power, and came back after it turned back on.

our new years eve was fairly uneventful. i ran a few errands early in the day. got some things for our "party." we came home and ate dinner, and then started to get things ready for a lazy night at home, as a family, as i did not really feel like going anywhere. around 8 or 8:30, the power went out. GAH! since we had no ideas when it would be back on, we pulled out the hide-a-bed, had the kids put their pajamas on over top their regular clothes, and tried to take it easy. we pulled the hurricane lamp into the front room so that we had some light in there. i lit some emergency candles in the kitchen. (more about those later) elizabeth fell asleep early, no surprise there, she's always the first one asleep. the power came back on around 9:30. i put a movie in for taylor and shannon, put ashley down in her bed, and washed the dishes. shannon didn't make it more than a half hour into the movie. by then, the movie was over, and taylor was ready to go to sleep. we let the kids sleep in the hide-a-bed. they enjoyed it.

shaun was the only one who made it into the new year awake. after the kids went to sleep, so did i. i loved having the kids home for the break, but i was always exhausted.