03.25.15

This little boy loves to look his trains right in the eye. Whenever he plays with them on the floor, he's right down there with them, moving along on his belly, imagining them coming straight toward him, full sized trains. Though he loves to play with them on the table, because it's the perfect height where he can stand and watch them as they come. I just know he's pretending they're real, and whizzing past him on real tracks. I'd love to take him to see some real trains this summer.

Today is a stormy blizzardy day, and Matt's first (and probably only) "snow day" of the year, in which the driving conditions were not safe enough to go in to work. That hasn't stopped him from working from home, though, and he's been on his laptop slaving away for most of the day. He is such an important part of his team, and I'm so proud of the work he does and how hard he works at it. His employers are lucky to have him.

Our power went out many many times this morning starting around 5:30, after which I couldn't sleep a wink. I got up and started lighting candles and covering windows to conserve heat (after discovering that the heat had been off all night!) I cooked the boys oatmeal with some leftover boiling water in the water cooler, and read some books by candlelight. In a way black outs are so peaceful and reminiscent of another time, a much older simpler time. No TV or internet to occupy you, just each other. It did make me very aware of how our emergency preparedness is sub par, so it's probably time to make a list and start checking things off. I'm not even sure we have a fire extinguisher, and if we do, I have no idea where it is kept...

For now I'm relaxing with a cup of coffee, contemplating an attempt at making gluten free cookies with coconut sugar because I can't kick this chocolate chip cookie craving, and breathing deeply and slowly as the positive energy of the universe moves in and out of my lungs. Time to read a book.