BOOM Goes the Dynamite! (Or the Transformer) (Not the Robot Kind...But How Cool Would That Be?!)
Monday, January 7, 2013 at 9:28PM Today was my official first day of the new year. We had been in Florida on vacation, and then when we arrived home, it was the weekend. So, I've been sleeping in, and not cooking, and generally being a slacker.
But this morning, I took Christian to school, came home and started a load of laundry, unloaded the dishwasher, and folded some clean clothes. Before 9:30.
I know. I'll wait for you to get up off the floor.
I was determined to get off to a good start. I spent a portion of the weekend picking up the back room, which is where we spend most of the day doing schoolwork, and which looked like a tornado had blown through. Before we could really start school today, I needed to clear the table which Michaela works at, because not only did it house whatever mess she had made there before we left on our trip, it also had annexed a great deal of the articles that had been residing elsewhere in the room (mainly on the floor, which I had picked up in order to vacuum).
Just as I was about to begin that project, I jumped at a loud BOOM which was immediately followed by a POP. Simultaneously, the lights went out, the heat shut off, and Eliana and Michaela came running down the stairs exclaiming,"What was that noise?!" Not too long after that, several things in the house began beeping (And when I say beeping, I mean beeping in a way that would make you want to pluck your hair out one piece at a time while spinning on one toe and yodeling...it was enough to make me crazy. CRAZY.) so I tried to figure out how to silence at least one device (I believe I was successful). I didn't know what to do about the other beeping, and it literally drove me upstairs (if not insane), as did the cooler temperature that slowly crept throughout the downstairs of the house.
I had told Michaela and Eliana to get back in bed since it was noticeably colder without the heat on (it was in the 30s this morning), and when I went upstairs, a warm bed was all too inviting. I put myself in it! As soon as I did that, though, Eliana told me she had to use the bathroom. So, I helped her take care of that, and then cozied up again. The power was off for about an hour (maybe less), and as soon as it came back on, I was very good and got out of bed again. (It's amazing how much I take having heat for granted.)
I busied myself at (with? on?) the table downstairs and finished clearing it for Michaela to do her work. She ate a little something, Eliana read a book to me, and after eating, Michaela did some book work at the table. We all kind of petered out after that. Tomorrow is the day we go to our class, so that will get us up and out early. I now have two relatively clean flat surfaces, as well as a pretty decent looking kitchen.
BABY STEPS!
I'm not quite unpacked from our trip, and our entryway needs some help in a major way, but I do feel like it's a start. Now to load up the dishwasher, and maybe read some...I'm tired! What a novelty!
Reader Comments (2)
Woot! That sounds very productive - amazing job! And now I want to curl up in bed some more.
But what was the boom? I HAVE TO KNOW!