Black Out

Okay, so it wasn't quite a black out, but the other day our power did go off for a couple hours. Brian was still gone on his roadtrip from Florida so it was just the kids and I. The power went off in the entire neighborhood around 4:30 in the afternoon due to an accident of some sort. I was so amazed by my kids' reaction. While I was calmly looking around for flashlights and candles "just in case" the kids were running around excited as could be about how they were going to get to sleep together in the living room, play games by candlelight, and play hide-n-seek in the "true" darkness. Noah actually said to me that he never knew not having t.v. could be so much fun. I was even happy about the fact that I couldn't cook dinner and therefore had to serve peanut butter and jelly and chips for dinner.

About an hour into our little adventure the neighbor kids came knocking and we invited them in to wait it out with us. The kids had a blast running around in the dark and hiding from each other until about 20 minutes later when the power suddenly came back on. Every single one of those kids groaned in disappointment until they realized that all they had to do was turn all the lights back off again and pretend we still had no power.

It was such a simple and silly thing, but it amazed me how my children could take something that could have potentially been very stressful or even miserable and turn it into something totally fun and carefree. That is the true beauty of a child.