16 hours and 52 minutes.
This is precisely how much time we can spend together as a family without technology.
Saturday night at 10:30pm we lost our power.
I've mentioned how much I love snow and winter right? This past weekend solidified exactly how much. (That would be in sarcasm font if I had one.)
It wasn't until the morning when the fun really started.
The BF and I were out of bed before 6:30am Sunday morning in order to get the fire going in the fireplace. Our new windows kept the house fairly tight overnight, so with the fire going the temperature stayed around 60 degrees inside.
So just to recap, we had NO POWER, which meant that there were 3 teenagers with...
no TV
no Internet
no Playstation3
no phone/texting (once their phone batteries died)
and most importantly
no unrestricted refrigerator access
AND
2 adults with...
no coffee
Yeah, you think you know, but you don't.
Do you have any idea how long it takes to perk coffee in a fireplace? About forever. Move the fuck over Pioneer Woman (I do love you but this weekend meant war.) I broke out the cast iron skillets and the camping percolator and made breakfast.
In the fireplace. While the kids played games at the dining room table.
I'm sure if you're a parent you're familiar with Hasbro's widely advertised, 'Family Game Night', not the video game, the one where people actually play board games and interact together. In the commercials everyone looks happy and there's family bonding and such.
These people do not exist.
You see, at our house, when the kids break out the games it's like the US, USSR and China pull up chairs on opposing sides of our dining room table. Bet you didn't think Sorry, Pictureka, and Jenga could draw proverbially blood, but you'd be wrong.
There were multiple outbursts of
YOU'RE CHEATING!
IT'S MY TURN!
I DON'T HAVE ANY CARDS!
NOW YOU'RE BOTH GANGING UP ON ME!
IT'S MY TURN! YOU JUST WENT!
SHUT UP!
NO, YOU SHUT UP!
I do not care what Hasbro promotes, I'm fairly sure the above description accurately describes most family game nights.
At 5:22pm EXACTLY the power came back on. I actually ran out into the driveway shrieking to the BF that we had power.
Or more importantly, the children could stop interacting and there would be peace once more.
6 comments:
Sounds like a NEW FAMILY RECORD!!!
See, this is why I always keep my laptop charged, a portable DVD player charged, and my phone charged. Use the laptop first to play DVDs. When that powers down, move to the portable DVD player. Last, 4G streaming of Netflix via the phone (use the phone last and/or sparingly so you can actually make phone calls; of course, it's also why I have several adapting units for the car, so I can turn the lighter plug into an actual outlet and recharge things like the phone, the dvd player, the laptop; What? you know I'm a nerd.)
"These people do not exist" cracked me up! It's so true!! It is absolutely miserable with no power...you may as well be camping (and I HATE camping!).
Havent had a power cut in ages but the last time the first thing me and my BF did at the time was go to turn the TV then realised no that needs power :(
We'd be fine for entertainment during a power outage, but it might be a struggle near the end. What would kill us is the food -- not being able to open the fridge or warm up something. I don't even want to think about the coffee situation.
That sounds way too familiar. Thank GOD for the kids DS's. They're magical.
Baahahahahaha! Nope. When I was a kid my family would have KILLED each other by that point. And, no, we couldn't play board games for long because anytime my sister thought she was losing she would go psycho and throw the game across the room.
Issues.
I don't know how Scope, Wednesday and I would fare without power. Wednesday probably wouldn't be any different. All she does is read anyway!
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