Lights Out!

Our power was out for about 3 hours today. This is becoming a habit. In warm weather,I kinda like a power outtage (as long as it is not pitch dark outside). But this is the fourth time we've been without power this winter and no power means no heat means wearing socks (which I hate). No power also means no computer. It got pretty nasty this morning. Here's how it went down. The kids were playing a game this morning, having a jolly good time and NOT bickering. All of a sudden, the juice is gone. The screen goes black...mass panic ensues. Questions of "Why is this happening to us" start pouring forth. A brief second where mom ponders "Did I pay the electric bill" and a frantic run to the checkbook. Well, we went ahead and started our schoolwork with our days of the weeks puppets and started our series of lessons on the fruits of the Spirit. Today we talked of love. How there is God's love for us, our love for God, and our love for others. We read and highlighted alot of verses in our bibles and worked on a new memory verse.This is a picture of Lillie literally "cleaning out her ears" before our lesson.

I printed some fruit clipart off and wrote the names of each fruit of the spirit on it, made a construction paper tree and as we finish studying each fruit we will paste the corresponding fruit on it. I like to do little projects like that because it enforces the lessons alot better and gives them something that triggers their minds.
We finished our creation book Saturday and I'm a day late posting it...

Well, the power did come back on and the kids just got logged onto the internet when it went off again. You thought there was panic before...now add frustration on top of that and it was not pretty. The power teased and taunted us coming on and then going off again and everytime was just gasoline on the fire. The only way I can really convey how the kids were feeling was this...
We have power now and all is well...