We haven't had power since Sunday night and yesterday the girls and I spent the day knitting (they're really into that right now) and catching up on some house cleaning and organizing. One day without power isn't so bad. It feels like a free day and those are few and far between for us.

Two days without power starts to get old ... and smelly. We had lunch and showers at our friend's house today and then spent some time at the library checking email and reading.

We're really hoping there's not a Day 3.

But that is a possibility. Bummer.

The quote of the day yesterday was from L. as we were washing dishes in cold, rain water (Fino decided to make spaghetti with sauce on the camp stove - nice idea and very tasty but he really didn't consider the clean-up issue).

"Hey mom, this is like living in the Colonial times huh?"

Yeah, but they didn't know what they were missing.

We do.

Today I stopped at the store for paper plates; it was worth every penny.