Blackout Bliss

Yesterday was a super crazy, busy day. I had Activity Days that I was getting ready for and then the actual activity. Straight from the activity we had to pick Matt up from the train station, rush home to scarf down dinner, and then I had Relief Society and Matt had an Elders Quorum meeting. Poor Kalianna just got dragged all over the place! We finally got home for the evening around 8:30 p.m. Bedtime is typically 9:00. So we were all in Kalianna's room, playing together, and we had just started getting her ready for bed, when the power went out. Kalianna thought it was hysterical and started crawling/stumbling all over the place, running into things and laughing. We waited for the power to come back on. And we waited. And we waited. Finally, Matt called the power company, who said it would be back on around 1:00 a.m. Awesome! So we got some flashlights and finished putting the little one to bed, who because of all the excitement, didn't get to sleep until quarter to ten. Matt had homework to work on, but without power, he was out of luck. I was going to work on some writing and get some things done around the house, all of which needed the use of electricity. And working out was out of the question, since P90X requires the use of a TV. So you know what we did instead? We snuggled on our balcony, and watched the storm outside. We just talked and snuggled and talked some more. It turned into such a fun evening together! Without any distractions, and not being able to get the things done we had planned on, we both relaxed and enjoyed being together instead. We just might have to turn our power off more often!