No Power
Last month we had one of the worst storms in St. Louis history insofar as it made the most people lose power of any storm ever. Wednesday night we were fixing supper and getting ready for church when it started blowing in. James called the kids outside to pick up the toys when the wind began to blow. They had no sooner gotten all the toys picked up than it began to rain and continued blowing. Minutes later the power went out. It didn't come on for 5 days! We didn't end up getting to church that night. We suspected a tornado warning, even though we heard no sirens and couldn't listen to the radio to find out so we went downstairs and waited. The boys were very concerned about the tree we have in our backyard. The wind was blowing so hard (60 mph with 90 mph gusts!) that it looked like it was going to blow over! They prayed for the tree and God protected it! We spent the night at home that night with all the windows open.
I was appropriately horrified and we had the "dead mouse" talk that my Mom had with my brothers when they were little. (You know, the one where you tell them that mice carry diseases, etc. 
) They washed REALLY well with supervision. Hopefully they've learned. I'll just never forget the sight of James running through the church basement with that dead mouse in his hand! It was actually kind of funny later!
Gaelin had outgrown two different sizes of clothes and all the clothes were stuck like some sort of weird time warp in his bedroom, leaving no room for the clothes that he needed to wear now. It was the same for Ethan and Elizabeth.
They decorated journals and painted t-shirts with their names and their class logos. They've been wearing those t-shirts proudly everywhere we will let them, only taking them off for washing now and then when I make them.