Count Your Blessings

Leave it to the Berenstain Bears to remind you of the simple things in and about life.

After a weekend of no power and waking up still without power, Brianna and I got out of the house in hopes of finding somewhere warmer to wait out the cold. It had been a long weekend and I was hoping, sooner rather than later, our power would find it's way back so we could go back to our house and just be - without the headlamps and without thinking where we were going next in order to stay warm. Along our Monday excursion, we stopped briefly in a book store before picking up lunch. We went up to the kids section and browsed our favorites. I came across the Berenstain Bears Count Their Blessings book and thought what perfect timing. For those unfamiliar with this book, it's about a big storm rumbling the treehouse and leaving them temporarily without power. At one point Mama reminds her cubs to, "... start appreciating the things you do have. It's called 'counting your blessings.'" Sure enough, they have each other, a cozy fire to snuggle up next to, yummy hot chocolate, and a sturdy house to keep them safe.

Although our circumstances were a little different and lasted much longer, I still had to stop and count our blessings.
1. We were together and safe and warm
2. Family was right around the corner and gladly welcomed us into their weekend
3. Brianna still managed to get sleep even though she was shuffled from here to there
4. Eko was able to relax and stay calm at my sisters house
5. A friend let us borrow a cooler so we could salvage what was left in our fridge
6...7...8...

Thanks Michelle, Hung and Casen for letting us crash your weekend, eat your food and watch a mind blowing movie with you! It was nice to know we had a place to go.

Saturday morning, my mom watch Brianna as I went to a covenant seminar and Jon ran errands. While Jon snowplowed my parents driveway, we played a bit with cousin Lucius and Oliver  before returning home to no power!

Casen was kind enough to share toys and electricity so we could play before heading to bed.

Electical outages and cloth diapers don't mix, especially when it's diaper washing night. Both Casen and Brianna jumped in the basket once all the clean diapers were neatly folded.

Eko was having a hard time finding a suitable spot to lay down... oh wait... they have a couch too... problem solved.