Freezing Rain

Late Monday afternoon the cold rain began to fall.  It started to freeze not long after it began.  We were disappointed no snow, but the girls just had to venture out to get a better look at the ice forming on the trees.  It was lovely but being that it was just us girls at home for the night, I began to wonder how long this would last.  We lost power later in the evening.  We each had our flashlights and we got lots of candles lit then decided for the three of us to have a camp out in the family room with the fireplace going.  We could hear branches beginning to fall in our woods later in the night.  Our house smelled wonderful with the large array of candles, all sorts of fragrances, burning at once.  Amy got a little unnerved by everything and stuck close to me.  She kept asking, "Is this our destiny?"  

Not sure what she means by that other than the fact that she watches a lot of princess drama type shows and they probably use that word. : ) 

I said no this is not our destiny, it is just a little power outage and all will be ok, we will get our lights back on so don't worry, we are safe and sound.  

To keep things fun I let them get out our stash of glow bracelets and we read some books then stayed up way past our bedtime.  It was cozy with all the blankets, stuffed animals enough to fill the room,  and the glow of the  firelight. I wish now I would have taken a picture but I only had 38% power on my phone so I had to cut it off and conserve in case of an emergency and to check the forecast later.

The last thing Amy said before she could finally settle down to go to sleep was how much she liked camping out.  It was really good to see her go from hyped up fear, to happy contentment.

And then we heard a tree fall.  I didn't think she would ever go to sleep after that!

The light of day brought the promise of fun in the ice.  They actually had a lot of fun banging ice off of tree limbs, bushes and porches. We did have a few trees down. They said the covering of ice made everything look like the frozen movie.  I love the way these two can make a fun day out of everything.  They are very industrious and imaginative. 

They came in to warm up and had some hot chocolate. Then we managed to still get our home school day in and talked a lot about the beauty in each season. Discussed the things we like the most about each season and a few of the things we like the least.  We made a list of all the adjectives we could think of to describe the ice day. They both wrote stories about the ice storm and camp out.

We talked about the beauty of the ice on the trees and how much it sparkled
 when the sun shined on it.

Our Bible verse this week is Numbers 6:25 

The Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.

We are learning a song of blessing that has this verse in it.

We also said a prayer of thanksgiving that our power came back on in time to save all the food in our fridge and freezer....especially the ice cream as they would say! 

Had a very productive day and then they went back out in the late afternoon to play again. It never warmed up enough to melt away so the ice may stick around a bit longer than expected.