Last week, the week before Halloween was a week to be remembered. Rob's parents went to California for a much needed vacation. Our children were all sick with fevers and Rob left on Wednesday for a writers convention in California. So the week of Halloween I was alone with three sick children.
Monday night of said week Rob and I sat down to watch some older scary movies. We put in a few that were very tame and fun but then we decided to watch The Night of The Living Dead. I got 30 minutes into the movie. (The movie takes place in an old house with the living people inside trying to keep the zombies out). Knowing that shortly I would be alone for 3 nights I called it quits on the movie but it was too late the damage had already been done.
Fast forward to Wednesday night. Rob is in California and I am home with my sickies. Max being the sickest slept with me in front of the TV. At 1:00 he woke up and was wide awake until 3:30am. But we were ok right? TV, lights on all over the house, doors locked and one slightly barricaded. No problem. Until Bang! At 3:30 am the transformer behind the house blew and all of the lights went out. Holy Crap! So I talked myself out of panic and I searched all over the house for the flashlight that Sammy loves to play with. I couldn't find it. The phone however would light up long enough to tell me there was no service so I wandered around the house clicking the light on over and over again reminding myself to not think of Zombies and trying to come up with a plan. No lights, no phone (My cellphone was even out of commission because I hadn't charged it). So I did the only thing I could do. I went into the kids room. I closed the door and set my back up against the door and we sang primary songs until the power came on an hour later.
The moral: Stop watching scary movies Erin!
5 comments:
OH man, what are the chances the power would go out? Scary Erin! Glad you thought to go in your kids' room and sing primary songs!
I would have been so freaked out! I can't ever watch scary movies because every little sound creeps me out. After watching "The Village" a few years ago, I couldn't even walk down the very short hallway in my apartment in the dark because I was afraid something was going to reach out and grab me.
I HATE scary movies for that very reason. Oh, how crazy that that would happen right then. I would have reacted the same way. :)
That's so funny! in a horrible way of course! On Halloween I was all alone and I wanted to watch something scary so I watched Scream-I'd never seen it and Dan said it was good...
Chris got home about 2am and found every light on, doors locked and barricaded, and I was in bed with a blanket around my head. He thought it was sooooo funny ^_^
Do you remember that time we walked home from church (YW) and it started to get dark? We freaked ourselves out, screamed, sprinted 10 yards, stop from laughing so hard, only to start over again until we got home?
You need to know that I (rightfully) blame you for my inability to walk at night without the requisite scream-sprint-stop routine.
Missing you right now :)
May I suggest Legend with Will Smith? But only after Rob gets home.
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