The remains of Hurricane Ike blew through on Sunday and unexpectedly picked up power. We were one of the millions effected. We lost several HUGE trees and the tops of of many more. Our electric line has been completely snapped off from the power pole and is laying in our yard. Some minor damage to our house (spouting ripped off, hole in the screened-in porch, etc..), but we are without power. We have been told it will be the end of the weekend or even the beginning of next week before we get power back. (My work has power, that is how I am posting this.)
All of this is really confusing Julia. She is old enough to understand that something is wrong and different, but not old enough to understand what is going on. I think it really confuses her that we are eating in the dark and the TV has not been on for several days. I also think the whole thing is stressing her out. She picked up on our stress on Sunday and Monday (we have now got things under control and have no problem riding it out), so she is also stressed. Everything is different to her and she does not know why. Normally her room has a nightlight, so I think that is scaring her some too, having to sleep in the complete dark.
Then this morning you could just see the stressed/confused look on her face when I dropped her off at daycare and they too were in the dark. Several days without going to daycare and when she finally does, it's also has no lights (they have plenty of windows, so it was not REALLY that dark).
Poor girl. She does not deal well with change anyway, and to have all these strange things happening, well it must be hard on her.
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