Well, we woke up at 6 the morning after Christmas to a cold house! The electricity had gone off around midnight. Thankfully, Mom has a fireplace AND an iron wood-burning stove, so we built up the fires, wrapped banana bread in foil and set it on the stove to warm, and even used our camping percolator to make some coffee!
We had ended up getting close to a foot of snow, and I had brought some snow gear, so the girls suited up and went out to play. It was too powdery at first to make a snowman, but they would go out and get cold and come in and warm up just like the old days in Idaho. :) We also played more of our new games and made snow ice cream and kept the fires going and generally tried to stay warm. For lunch Kelli fried an egg and the rest of us fried up some left-over Christmas ham and rolls. By afternoon Jason and Kelli's power had come back on and they went home, but when Mom called they told her it could be a WEEK before hers was fixed! She and I remember when the house was still on a well with an electric pump and we couldn't use any water or even flush the toilets, so we were thankful for city water! We put some of that water in big pots on the stove for hot chocolate and washing dishes, and even boiled chicken in some, melted Velveeta with Rotel in a crock, and had chicken nachos for supper! It got dark again by 6, and we pulled out the candles and flashlights for a rousing game of Apples to Apples, but the charm of the dark and cold were beginning to diminish. And so was the woodpile. I don't know why we didn't all sleep in the family room by the stove, but we went to our beds and slept...until about 4:00, when we woke up freezing! I didn't look at the thermostat, but my mom said it was about 30 degrees. In the house. It was 17 outside. After we got the fire going again, we had 4 logs left. The banana bread got a little TOO done, we all wanted--no, NEEDED--baths, and worst of all, the percolator didn't work for some reason. It was time to go. My van was stuck, so we piled into my mom's 4-wheel drive and went to my house in Magnolia, which was warm and had hot water and lights and felt like heaven. My mom's neighbor called that night to say their power was back on, so we took her home a couple of days later. Phew! It was an exciting end to the Christmas season, and one we will definitely always remember.
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| Warming up the first morning |
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| Lunch time! |
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| The girls were even able to watch a DVD until their battery died. |
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| Snow ice cream! |
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| Apples to Apples fun |
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| Blue sky behind snow is one of my favorite things. :) |
5 comments:
SNOW!!! What a gift. Our crew had been praying for snow at Christmas, and we were in Conway, too. Good to know the weather wasn't all our fault ;-)
Truly a Christmas to remember! Will be fun to look back on and laugh about in future years! It's hard to laugh when your teeth are chattering, though!
Hi! I'm back in blog world, sort of! Can't get on Beth Moore's blog caus my iPad won't show the link to her blog from her website & I can't remember the URL. I can only get to the old blogspot posts, not the new stuff :( Do you know the exact URL for he blog? The iPad won't lead me there from anywhere! My laptop & desktop are toast & I have to wait for our tax return to get anything fixed & get a new desktop. We fixed that a few times only for it to croak again before we'd even paid the previous bill to get it fixed! So we give! Time for a new computer!
Joanna and Jill, I really did enjoy (most of) it. :) Shellie, here's a link tothe LPM blog: http://blog.lproof.org/. And know that you and Josh are still on my prayer list. :)
Thanks Kecia :)
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