When your power is out for four days, you will:
- Regress to co-sleeping (four to a bed)
- Eat garlic naan reheated on the stovetop for breakfast
- Prepare to duel a rude man trying to gank your outlet at Panera (where you are charging your kids’ devices)
- Play scrabble with your husband, using your son’s light up Harry Potter wand to consult the dictionary, and glow when your husband calls you Hermione Granger
- Take advantage of every kindness your friends offer, from laundry to childcare to use of their giant TV (for Mario)
- Assuage your guilt about polluting by dumping all your rotting produce into your “garden”
- Let your children rejoice in pitching old apples like baseballs up your embankment
- Almost cry when your officemate brings in electric lanterns & candles to help you weather another night
- Thank the universe years living in military housing prepares you for this...
