What doesn't kill us....

is supposed to make us stronger right? Well I am not sure how much stronger we all our after our last few days around here! I am born and raised as a New Jersey winter girl. When it snows, it snows that day, the road crew cleans up the roads and everyone moves on with their lives. With that said, I love living in Ohio any time but when it snows! It started to snow here Monday night and finally quit yesterday afternoon. In the meantime, we were blanket with snow, then ice and then snow again. All along we haven't had school and will not be going again tomorrow. The roads still leave a lot to desire. 

Tuesday Kyle lost his first tooth. The Tooth Fairy came and left him $5.00 for his first tooth. He has another tooth that is really loss as well. Tonight at dinner, he commented on the tooth fairy coming again. To that I quickly said "The tooth fairy only leaves $5.00 for your first tooth! Don't expect it each time!" He just laughed. 

All day Tuesday the boys wanted to go outside to play. I kept telling them when Dad got home they could get bundled and go out to play with him. As soon as they woke up from their nap, they were ready to go. We all bundled up and headed out to play. We had a good time. "J" wasn't so sure how he felt about the snow though. He liked the idea of going out but once he was there it wasn't as much fun as he had thought! He was so bundled up that when he would run and fall over, he couldn't get back up. Funny to the rest of us but he hated it! 

Wednesday morning was when the true excitement began though! We woke up to about 15 minutes of power then NOTHING! We lost power for almost 30 hours. Billy ventured out to the local hardware store to buy a kerosene heater yesterday morning. Now as a side note, he was cursing me the whole time because he did want to buy one a week ago and I put it off. I learned my lesson! It is amazing how much heat that little heater could put off. We were able to keep warm all day but it was very trying at times with the boys running around the 3 rooms we had open and heated. I kept praying all day that the power would come back all day then at some point overnight but we woke up to a powerless house this morning. Then finally around 11:45 this morning, the power came back on for good. We were very thankful and then trying to figure out a reason to get out of the house! We took the boys to Bob Evans for dinner. They love pancakes and were excited to have them for dinner. 

We all are experiencing extreme cabin fever. Hopefully tomorrow we can venture a bit farther out and do something fun. Not sure what it will be but I will make a good attempt at locating something!