October Nor'easter

Our adventures with this nor'easter began Saturday night around 7:00pm when we lost power.  While we had heard that wide spread power outages could occur, for some reason I don't think many of us put much stock in it.  After all, we are hearty New Englanders.  Winter storms are part of our way of life up here.  Or maybe it was the fact that this winter storm was taking place in October, which is clearly not winter by any stretch of the imagination.  Regardless, we embraced this storm for all it was worth and commenced with Candy Land and let the night roll from there.  Shortly after this picture was taken we all headed up to bed.  Our bed and the girls each had blakets on it since the night promised to be very cold (thanks to the lack of power and therefor heat).  It was a rough night of sleep, listening to trees and their branches falling all night.  Thankfully the girls slept through beautifully, David and I howerver, did not.  The next morning we woke up to this:

We had been smart enough to put key items in the milk box as well as a cooler the night before.  It was really neat seeing the milk box full, and it was lovely not to loose all the perishables in our fridge (like we had eight weeks earlier during Hurricane Tropical Storm Irene.

Cake was had for breakfast.  This was mostly due to the fact that we don't have a gas stove and cannot therefor eat the traditional New England storm breakfast of pancakes or french toast!

There was lots of time spent upstairs in our room, snuggled under the lovely blankets.  We read in bed. Colored in bed.  Snacked in bed. Snuggled in bed.  And pretty much lived under those covers until we could not take it anymore and had to head out.  Somewhere.  Anywhere.  As long as we could get warm. 

We never did get to carve our pumpkins. 

Thankfully, LL Bean had this lovely camping stove just waiting for us to come along and give it a good home.  We put it to use right away and made a lovely pot of mint hot chocolate.  After all, what good is playing in the snow if you can't warm up with some hot chocolate?

My Facebook status update on Halloween said it best: "30 hours after losing power we finally got it back! While we had a fine time roughing it, the hardest part was being without heat for so long (especially since it was so cold out. 20 degrees last night alone!). We actually put the old fashioned milk box on our front porch to good use, and piled on lots of blankets and had lots and lots of snuggle time! So grateful that the girls share a bed so that they had eachother to keep them warm (under their five blankets) when they weren't snuggled in bed with us. Loved waking up this morning to Dave saying to me: "I love that we weathed yet another storm together." And so begins the tenth anniversary of the day we got engaged!"