Alive and Well
We had a pretty windy night, and I watched the siding on the neighbors house flap around a little. Other than that, we are all good. I expected the power to go off around 5 pm and stay off for at least 5 days, so I was pleasantly surprised that the power was out for a max of one minute.
I’m just sorry for all my NY/NJ/closer to the coast friends. Looks like a horrible mess out there. I hope you all have stayed safe and have a quick recovery.
I didn’t want to sleep in the basement because I’m a picky little princess, so we took a look at the trees and decided the only room that was really in danger was Erik’s room. He was more than happy to sleep in the basement. He was over the top excited yesterday, just waiting for the hurricane to hit. When it was blowing like a banshee out there, he was crying that it wasn’t exciting enough.
There’s no school or work today (roads may be flooded, they are trying to keep everyone off the roads), so it will be another looooooong day. I know some people enjoy being homebodies, but I’m not one of them. We usually do at least three activities a day: trip to the gym, morning or early afternoon MOMS Club play date, then after school park visit/soccer/cooking class/something. Sitting inside all day long drove me crazy yesterday.
I had Halloween candy already purchased and I have been so good about leaving it alone, but I totally broke diet protocol and stress ate my way through half a bag of peanut butter cups. I feel so sick this morning. I really regret it, both from a dieting standpoint, but also from a happy tummy standpoint. Why do I have to sabotage myself like that? I knew I shouldn’t have peanut butter cups in the house, but I saw all the big boxes of kettlecorn, pretzels, fruit snacks and other healthy things and had a rebellion. I don’t want my kids to eat a lot of sugar, but I have such great memories of Halloween being all about candy and fun that I couldn’t be the old scrounge who handed out the equivalent of raisins. Let’s give these kids some decent candy, by golly!
Kimberly said,
October 31, 2012 @ 9:19 am
I’m half convinced that the storm went so easy on the area because (1) for once I prepped like crazy, and (2) I would not let any friends or neighbors speak the word “power”.
My friend who lives in York said they flat out canceled Halloween there (no rescheduling) – how in the heck do you explain that to a kid? I have to go to the end of my driveway to pass out candy (no one wants to walk back to the house 🙁 ), I’m cold just thinking about it but no way do I trust myself with all that candy (and I started Nutrisystem today).