Wednesday, January 25, 2012

wordless{ish} wednesday: we've got power!


after five days & five nights without any electricity in my entire neighborhood, the lights {& the heat!} are finally on at our house.  i think at the peak of the craziness, there were over 400,000 homes & businesses in the greater seattle area without power.  that's insane.

luckily we kept warm & were taken in by friends & family for all five nights.  but you guys?  it feels so amazingly good to be home.  i've had the heat cranked up to completely ridiculous levels in the house just because i can.  parker ran around from room to room scooping up his toys like it was christmas morning... he was so excited to be reunited with his stuff.  one thing that wasn't so awesome?  throwing away everything in our fridge & freezer & then going out last night to replace it all.  not the high point.  but climbing into my own warm bed?  pretty dang good.

and now maybe life will return to normal.  whatever that is.

{linking up with wordless wednesday at and then she {snapped},  baby baby lemonthe paper mama, & a little king & i}

22 comments:

  1. Glad to hear you finally have power back! I can't imagine going that long without power while having little kids. Yikes!

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  2. happy your power is back on! nothing like sleeping in your own bed!

    www.modernsuburbanites.blogspot.com

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  3. We were out of power for 3 days and it sucked!! So I feel ya. Glad you're home, nice & cozy! :)

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  4. WOOOOO!!!! It's amazing how much you take for granted until you lose power! So glad all is back to normal :)

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  5. yay! so glad to hear that you have power again and finally back home! it's so nice that you had such wonderful friends and family to take you in!!

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  6. Yay for power! Ours was out for 3 days during the summer because of a tornado and I lost my last frozen stores of breast milk- so sad.

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  7. i cant imagine not having power for FIVE days. whoaoaoaoaoaoaoa.

    not cool.

    as much as i wish we would see some snow around these parts, im thankful to not be dealing with some of the unfortunate weather happenings around us.

    oregon is flooded... thankfully not in my town... but pretty much everywhere else :(

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  8. Congrats! That's nuts. My SIL lives near Seattle and has been freaking out on fb for days. Think they finally got it back too.

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  9. Ugh, you poor thing! I remember when we had a city wide power outage...it was for 2 days and I thought we were gonna die!! I can't imagine 5 days! Agh!
    ♥ Kyna

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  10. glad you got your power back on and can be home! also we have the same lamps on our nightstands :)

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  11. Yay for power! You've had a rough month. Here's to a better February!

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  12. So glad your back, and safe!

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  13. Hurrah! We got ours back Saturday night...now I feel bad for all the hot showers ;)

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  14. So glad you are back home with lights and heat! Replacing all of your food is a real pain, I can only imagine. How cute is Parker rediscovering all of his toys!!

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  15. With Irene we lost power for 4-5 days but it was WARM. i cannnnnot imagine loosing power now :( Glad it's back on!

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  16. Oh thank God!!! SO glad yall made it home, there is no better feeling!

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  17. 5 days is a lot of time to be w/o power!!

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  18. So happy you have your power back! And happy (and a little jealous!) you had friends to stay with! We lost our power in Dec and we're 4 days without, day 4 when our house was 56 degrees I was about to lose my mind ... and ready to book a flight to Hawaii ... and poof the power came back. But the cold, oh the cold. Anyway, enjoy your power and heat and keeping warm :)

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  19. Wow! I cannot at all imagine 5 days without power in the middle of winter so far north! I hope you had a fireplace or something to keep you warm!

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  20. Hi there!
    My sister lives on the coast too but did not experience the power outage. They were just unable to go anywhere for a couple days. Glad you guys are back home!
    I too am a SAHM and I love your blog! Very entertaining :) I love blogging too!
    Chelsea
    passionforbabyfashion.wordpress.com

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