When Life Hands You...

a day full of rain, then snow, then rain, then slush...make COOKIES!!!

We had a fun day planned and then it rained. So the first thing we did was get dressed and pulled out all of our games. Memory was the most fun for the kiddos.

In the middle of our game the power went out. So we pulled all of the blinds up and opened the curtains and continued to play our games with no television, no noise, it was so weird. Playing with the silent snow falling in the background.

We played Memory two different ways and then pulled out all of the other games.

When Scarlett woke up from nap #1 we fed her and then played with her a little. The kids also sang every song they knew to their little sister.

They took turns loving on her and kissing on her.

What I thought had been only 20 minutes turned into 3 hours of pure unplugged play. It was GREAT! I couldn't clean because we had no power so we embraced the sunlight a little longer and colored and cut and danced to our own music. I made peanut butter sandwiches because I didn't want to open the fridge and then it was time for nap. The house started to get really cold so I bundled into my bed while the kids were sleeping. I prayed that the power would come back on because it would be a Looooooooooong cold night without heat. I called Nathan with the last 2 minutes of power on my cell phone and told him about it and then all of a sudden the power went back on right after my cell died...go figure! So since this miracle of power seemed to be back to normal we decided with this crazy weather we would make cookies.

Bridget and I made cookies and Lucas who was all about Scarlett today read her some books. He told me that he would take care of his Baby Scarlett so she wouldn't bother me. I don't know where he got that but it was so funny to hear him say.

She totally watched him the whole time and cooed and was so quiet. I noticed that he was only reading her the Thomas books. I asked him why and he said it was important for every girl to know how important trains are. Haha.

It was a great day and I have to admit I liked having such a quiet day with the kids...it rarely happens you know with 3 kids under 3! :)