Monday, March 5, 2018

When you have no power post storm

When your power is out for four days, you will:

  1. Regress to co-sleeping (four to a bed)
  2. Eat garlic naan reheated on the stovetop for breakfast 
  3. Prepare to duel a rude man trying to gank your outlet at Panera (where you are charging your kids’ devices)
  4. 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
  5. Take advantage of every kindness your friends offer, from laundry to childcare to use of their giant TV (for Mario) 
  6. Assuage your guilt about polluting by dumping all your rotting produce into your “garden” 
  7. Let your children rejoice in pitching old apples like baseballs up your embankment 
  8. Almost cry when your officemate brings in electric lanterns & candles to help you weather another night 
  9. Thank the universe years living in military housing prepares you for this... 


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