Ahh Halloween

So I left work an hour early and busted my butt to get dinner on the table by 5 & homework done so that the kids could be out trick or treating by 6 only to have Amelia last halfway down the street and Charlie last about ten minutes after that, because he peed his pants, err, Ninja costume... Ahh Halloween! Thank goodness for the bottle of pumpkin liquor a friend gave me this morning! Here is Charlie with his loot, totally unfazed by the experience.

Back To Normal

Our power went back on at about 10am this morning. I can safely report that I have never been more thankful to be able to make a cup of coffee in my life! With Charlie back in school today we are back to our usual routine save for this being Amelia's first night in her big girl bed (but no pictures until her room is done!) So far she has been doing pretty well with it-- at least that is to say, 2 hours in there has only been one minor meltdown and no thuds (the bedrail is among the many items purchased and supposedly shipped last week, now MIA due to Hurricane Sandy.)

Both kids are looking forward to trick or treating tomorrow night, here's hoping the weather cooperates!

Hour Number 16 With No Power

Peanut butter and jelly by flashlight for breakfast

Power Outage

So of course the power went out right when I put the meatloaf in the oven. Since the worst of the winds aren't supposed to hit til 8pm tonight I don't expect it to go back on any time soon.

Here we are playing Uno in the semi - darkness:

Frankenstorm

Despite the fact that the brunt of this storm is supposed to hit the New Jersey/New York area, Quincy public schools are canceled for tomorrow as is pretty much every school in the state per the Governor's request. Mike is working from home assuming we don't lose power, and we have dutifully dug out the flashlights, charged the iPad and portable DVD player, taken everything off the back porch, have plenty of bottled water & moved the car from its usual under-a-tree parking space. The only oversight is that the kids haven't had a bath in 3 days, thanks to Mike & I being out last night and being out again late tonight at Phil and Sue's. So hopefully I can get them in the tub tomorrow morning before the worst of the storm hits...(Apparently it is important that my children be clean before a natural disaster? Or I'm supposed to bathe them because we might have to turn the water off or something? But for some reason they need to be bathed :-))

So the first "snow day" of Charlie's school career is for a hurricane. I'll update tomorrow & I hope everyone in PA is staying safe and hunkering down too!

Hello Kitty Car

Amelia: "Mom, I need a Hello Kitty car. Not a bike, a car!"
Me: "Why do you need a car?"
Amelia: "Because I need to drive it!"
Me: "But why do you need to drive a car?"
Amelia: "Because I need to go to the store to buy shoes!"

Potty Training Update

Well, maybe it'll happen by osmosis...