My morning

I wake to the sound of the box fan shutting off. I immediately know...the power has gone out. I don't know what it is, call it a gift, call it craziness, who knows, but I can be woken up from a dead sleep when the power goes out. Usually I'm a pretty heavy sleeper, and few things wake me up, one, is the kids, guess it's a mom thing. I can hear if the kids are crying in the middle of night or sick. And two, the power going off. I realized my "skill" after we moved to Guam and had many power outages, some from earthquakes(then again it was probably the earthquake that woke me up-lol), or the power would go out for no reason what so ever. So after the power went out this morning I just laid in bed for a while till one of the kids came in to let me know "the lights were broken".

They are perturbed that they couldn't watch cartoons this morning but got over it. I was perturbed...no coffee. Oh, well, I don't HAVE to have a cup of coffee every morning, right? So off we go to take Gavin to school. After we drop him off we have to head over to Old Lyme to go to the Comcast office to get some special CD(we are having trouble with our stupid computer, but that's another story). Get to the Comcast office, they have NO idea what I'm talking about...great. Call Comcast's 1-800 number, they tell me I should of never been sent there...perfect. So at this point I'm getting annoyed. Normally I would not get annoyed over such things. I start to think, "hmmmm...maybe I DO need coffee".  :-) While we are in Old Lyme and right next to the A&P we stop in to see what they have on sale. We always get their circular and they have such great deals but we never go there. I look at prices and have decided to go back tomorrow after Phil gets paid to get a few items that I think are pretty good deals.

When we got home the power was still out but the power company was out working on the lines so I knew it would be on soon. In the meantime, I made a 2 week menu(well almost, I have a few more meals to come up with), and started a grocery list. I did this while the twins ran around like crazed maniacs. But they did find some old toys in bag in the back of the downstairs closet and they were excited about that. "I've been looking for this forever", Madeline said. 

The power is back on, the twins are eating lunch, and I (yes at 11:45) am having my first cup of coffee. Mmmm, coffee!