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Rule 1: Choose to embrace the interrupted day! Driving a car in gale force winds on water covered roads is quite dangerous. Stay home and embrace the "unscheduled holiday." We knew the storm was coming -- so we prepared a scrumptious breakfast casserole. (YAY! Power went out during the night AND about 10 minutes after the french toast finished baking... so we actually got to enjoy it!)
Rule 2: Plan appropriately for power outages. Our son practiced piano when the power went out, providing music for our day! (If you don't have a gifted piano player in your family, maybe you can play the kazoo!) No blow dryer? No problem. Let your daughter do your hair! And when you run out of other things to do, dust the house! Especially the ceiling fans -- seriously, we had no idea how dusty ours was since it runs non-stop when the power is on!
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| Nathan's hands blessed our day! |
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| Ellie did a fabulous job with my hair. Daisy did not like the howling wind and rattling windows! |
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| Ben dusted carefully, every nick nack too! |
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| Thanks, Rob! |
Rule 3: Document any damage as soon as possible. Eagle-eye Nathan discovered the watermark on our kitchen ceiling. We seriously can't find where it came from -- the roof and flashing look good. Time to call in the pros. Bummer!
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| 16 inches long. Sigh.... It grew from there. :( |
Rule 4: Enjoy what you can! Ellie painted this beautiful rainbow -- a great reminder that even Hurricane Irene has to end sometime. The boys played wii, once the power came on and stayed on.
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| Our budding artist |
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| "Whee" -- power's back! |
Rule 5: Celebrate when it's over! Once we knew it was over, we got busy cooking. Crackers, cheese and fruit did not really qualify as lunch. Rob made pretzel chicken in mustard cheese sauce. I baked a triple berry pie. We all ate and enjoyed! Then we played Spades -- Nathan and Ben destroyed us!
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| Pretzel chicken in mustard cheese sauce Thanks, Rachael Ray! |
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| Triple berry pie I did not add the tapioca. Great recipe! |
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| Really, dude. You're killing us. No need to think that hard! |
Love,
13 comments:
We've not had anything big like y'all experienced, but once in a while the power will go out for several hours. We especially like it when it goes out in the evenings. We pull out the oil lanterns and candles and read stories to each other or play games!
Adding my prayers to yours!
Nothing like the power going out to bring the family together. We haven't played spades in forever! Hope the damage is minimal for your ceiling! And triple berry pie celebration sounds wonderful!
I love your rules AND you positive attitude!
When life gives you lemons... What a great day you guys had! Really! And...thanks for the reminder about the blueberry french toast. I saw that the other day. Now that I'm here again I will print up the recipe!
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As per usual, the Dawkins get creative! Chicken looks yummo ... but those peas, well, give them to my hubby!!
Trying to be creative -- or at least relaxed! We weren't going anywhere so why fight it? Right?
Ben and I hope to go to the coast later this week to help with clean-up.
Love ya!
Hi Karen! I love when people get creative with anything! Glad you have humor and you enjoy every moment!!! Take care, love Foivi!
I love it! Lemonade was made for sure. Good work, Lady, can't wait to try that pretzel chick recipe!! Yum!
This is so inspiring. And that breakfast casserole looks delicious (going to check that out next)!
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Pretzel Chicken in mustard cheese sauce...oh now that got my attention. It sounds very good. Have you posted that recipe?
Savannah,
It's a Rachael Ray recipe. Click on the link below the picture -- the "Pretzel Chicken" words -- and you'll go straight to it. YUMM-O as Rachael would say :D
Blessings.
Glad to hear that the ceiling water spot was your only damage! What a great perspective to carry you and your family through the day, and what a wonderful way to role model for your children how to handle an emergency situation!
Great to hear that you are all OK. That was a terrible storm.
It's lovely to see that you were all so prepared and that you enjoyed some special family bonding time too.
Best wishes,
Natasha.
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