Hurricane Sandy 2012

Hurricane Sandy rolled through here without too much damage. We saw some high tides and lots of rain.  The challenge was the days off school.  The kids had 2 days off for teacher work days, then the weekend, then 2 days off for the hurricane and an extra day because the school did not have power.  It was a long 7 days, and I was very happy to send the kids back to school. 

We did get creative and created the kids new favorite game, now called "Family Balloon volleyball"   It is a high energy game and the kids will only play if both Mommy and Daddy play too.  Scout is an obstacle to work around without knocking over.

We also made some balloon rockets on strings, these did not work as well as I would have liked but the kids had fun. 

 Looking at the pictures it is pretty apparent that we didn't brush any hair for most of the day.

Hurricane Irene

What happens when a hurricane hits home.  School is cancelled for 2 days. You stay in the house and play games, then when it is done....You hang out with all the neighbors in the street.  You help cut up some trees.  You drop off all the stuff from the freezer at a friends house.  You sweat in 90 degree heat.  You live without power for 3 days.  You take pictures of the trees fallen down in the neighborhood.  They are pretty boring pictures so you only get the 2 within sight of of our house.  After the hurricane then kids went back to school with generator power only, so no AC.  It was a hot week at school.