We woke this morning to a full on power outage. The little guy was standing at my door crying and I quickly realized it was going to be a long day. Saturdays are always long days, but this had an extra special "long day" feeling.
Realizing there was not going to be any snuggling in bed watching cartoons and dozing, we all headed downstairs for some cereal and fruit. The power was still not back by the time we finished breakfast. What next? We decided it would be fun to go to the park. So we all got dressed, packed our drinks and snacks, went to the front door to get our shoes, and BAM; the power came back on.
I immediately told everyone to take off their shoes and go sit in front of the TV. I got the kids set up with some quality programming, made a pot of coffee, cleaned the kitchen, started the dishwasher and stripped our bed to get the laundry going (I had found children's snot caked onto my duvet cover earlier in the morning).
So yes, it is super lame that I parked the kids in front of the TV just as we were about to go play, but I did redeem myself. After the show ended and I was up to speed on all my basic chores, we put those shoes back on and went to the park for an hour. And that was how we got through our Saturday morning. Let's see how the afternoon goes.
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