So it snowed Saturday morning/afternoon. Umm…isn’t it October. Who ever heard of a white Halloween? It was a bit odd. I had already told the girls we would go to the grocery for their Trick or Treating at noon, so we ran out to the car and braved the oddness.
About 3:30, Doug and I were playing with the girls in their room, and the power went out. It soon became clear it was going to stay out for quite a while.
The girls informed Doug that they wanted to “Throw snowballs at Daddy!”, so they all bundled up and out they went. I stayed in and made dinner. Yet another reason I am fond of my gas stove!
Aren’t the girls so cute all bundled up to play? Vada in her snow boots 4 sizes too big, and Kyla in her Wellies 2 sizes too big? We hadn’t bought them snow boots yet this year, so Doug had to scavenge through the still~too~big hand~me~down pile. Luckily he found these two pair so the girls could play without frozen toesies!
After dinner Vada handed Doug the shadow puppet book she got him for Father’s Day and told him she wanted to make shadow puppets with the candles. We had to explain the candles didn’t work that well for shadow puppets. However, I found a few flashlights and many fun animals were made!
Then I remembered we had glow sticks. I popped open a tube and much fun was had! They also worked well for nightlights to light the way to the bathroom once bedtime arrived.
Sunday morning, still no power. I started to realize just how much time I spend on the computer every day. I realized how much of that time was wasted time. Not my time with you, my blogland friends, but plenty of other time. I decided I needed to make myself a routine, and I needed to include less computer time in that routine. This way I will have more time to do all my housework~type chores, and more time to spend in craftie, yarnie, sewie fun!
As you can see above, the girls and I had some needlepoint fun together. They love “making something!” Less computer time equals more making something time.
Later the girls and I grabbed the tube from the glow sticks, and the tube from the plastic wrap that was just finished. We closed an end, tossed in some rice, and closed the other end.
The girls then colored some paper to decorate the tubes.
Here is Vada’s finished “Shake~shake.”
Here is Kyla’s. They just love them. Lots of fun has been had.
Amazingly, that 99 cent tube of glow sticks was a really good investment. They were still glowing Sunday night!
Sometime during the night the power came back on. Let’s see how I do with a routine. I am rather humbled/annoyed with myself; ashamed that I have to limit my computer time. I have decided I can spend time in blogland, on facebook, and doing whatever on the computer during the girls naptime, and in the evening after dinner when Doug likes to just relax on the couch and watch TV. The rest of the day I can only open the laptop if it is for something necessary like bill paying, finding the current Craft Hope pattern, house hunting, or so on. It shouldn’t be a problem, I’m just rather annoyed with myself at how much time I was wasting just bouncing around facebook, and playing games. Everything in moderation, right?
Well, I want to hop on over to Ravelry before the girl’s nap is over, and then I have to jump back into Monkey Land (more on that later), so I will share more with you tomorrow. I’m thinking either and overdue finished project post, or maybe some Flower Faeries!
Happy Halloween!
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