What a Blessing!

September 10

Wow! What a storm! First of all, I love rain and that was amazing.
(Also, the lightning was not too shabby)

Today, I was supposed to go running with Tabitha
& then probably watch Netflix at my house.
Our plans were interrupted when my uncle asked me to babysit.
I love my cousins.
They are all so cute and always have something funny to say.
Tabitha & I went running, but it was way earlier in the day,
and for significantly shorter amount of time.

I went to my cousin's house at 5 and around 7, I piled all the kiddos in my car to go pick up their brother from a party. It was raining pretty hard, so we ran to avoid getting soaked. Just as I started the car, we saw all the lights on the street go out.

POWER OUTAGE!

This would have been fine if I were at my house. I know where all the flash lights are at my house. Also, we had just locked all the doors with the intention of going in through the garage. Suddenly, it started raining harder and it became VERY difficult to see the road. We picked up Dall & headed back home to figure out how to get in. Luckily, one of the back doors was open, so we made it in. Safe and damp. Now to find lights. The kids didn't know where flashlights were off the top of their heads, so I asked them if they had any light-up toys. We used my cell phone to go upstairs to look. Dall found his Harry Potter wand. He used a "lumos charm" to help us find flashlights.

With flashlights in hand, we sat around on the couches down stairs
playing "Truth or Dare". The dares consisted of "run upstairs and sit in complete darkness for 30 seconds" and "run around outside in the rain". After the power had been out a while, I got a call from my mom. She said that the power was out at her house too and wanted to make sure we had found lights. My mom wasn't home when the power went out. She was out shopping with my sister. She was only gone for 15 minutes. When she came home, not only was the power out, but there was also half a tree where her car goes in the driveway. If she & I had been home, we both would have had to call insurance and be carless for a few days.

What a blessing it was that I got a random babysitting job on a Saturday night.

p.s. the power came back on just in time for the kids to go to bed. Another blessing because Ruthie was refusing to go to sleep without a night light.