24 + 24 + 2 = ???

50! The number of hours we were without electricity during the "historic" Kentucky ice storm of '09! I believe that I asked in my last post "How do you keep your kids busy on a snow day?".... God has quite the sense of humor...Here I thought I was doing good two days in a row with electricity and He just felt the need to test me. After 4 days of "togetherness", we resorted to this...
To say it was interesting would be an understatement! So, how did we spend all of our free time? Books, backgammon, checkers, attempting to contain the little ones to the basement (where our propane fire place is), Scrabble, Blokus, Legos, blocks, sitting around listening to the only local radio station in anticipation of hearing that help was on it's way, keeping little ones from fighting, more books, attempting to contain the little ones to the basement, backgammon...Oh, you get the picture! Yesterday was more exciting as we had company (Darcy's parents are also without power and still are today). All in all, we did great and roughed it out here at home - Didn't make sense to contain the little ones in a hotel room and many of the hotels were without power or full. We had heat, food, water, and each other! Our meals were cooked outside on the barbecue and I must give Mike kuddos as he was a great chef. He made omelets and bacon (okay, the bacon was black, but hey he tried) on the barbecue! He also made barbecue chicken and Noodle Roni on it for breakfast yesterday. Yes, you read that right...for breakfast. Hey, we thought it might be our only warm meal for the day and we figured if we didn't cook the chicken then it we would have to toss it. It was an experience we will never forget and the devastation around town will leave you speechless. As we were watching the spotlight of the electric company in the distance last night, Morgan commented on the fact that it was actually fun and that it "was like living like our ancestors" - Now, all this was said with his Nintendo DS (which was on it's last few minutes of power) in his hands...Off to get a well needed shower!

Here are a few pictures...