Whew. Glad that's over.

Today was a good day. I left work at noon and resisted the temptation to go back. Yay! for me. (Scratch that. I did go back later.)

I met a friend for lunch over at Zupas. As we were walking in we met another friend who was just coming in for take out. We invited her to join us and she did. Whilst the three of us were sitting there visiting yet another friend came in for take out and we invited her to join us. She didn't stay long, but she did stop and visit for a few and it was a good thing.

Thinking about it later I realized I needed to be reminded there is always room at my table for another friend.

When I got home it got a little crazy as I had two places to be and too much to do in about 20 minutes. I was frantically trying to whip up a quadruple batch of pie crust and at the same time clear a path for the floor installer (yes, we are still trying to get the install completed on our dining room floor) who was not supposed to come until after 4:00 but was now arriving at 2:30.

And then the power went out.

But then there was light because my dear friend b. dropped by for a minute. She was bearing Puffs with lotion and big hugs. That warmed my heart.

I was still a little crazy and thought the power outage was a bad thing, but then it was OK because without any power the installer couldn't do the install (and he didn't have all the parts he needed anyway), so I was able to get back to activity days at which I was supposed to be teaching the girls how to make pies.

Only because the power was out we couldn't actually bake the pies, so that meant we got to make pies by candlelight and then activity days got over early. Which was also a good thing.

So then I came home to a cold dark house and the fun began.

I lit up a whole mess of candles, made a few more pies by candlelight, watched my two oldest boys spend the afternoon sitting right next to each other on the sofa playing a video game they used to play when they were little. By candlelight.

They have never beaten it.

Still haven't.

After the pies were made I cozied up on my blue leather recliner and learned to play snood (I'm not very good at it).

The kids' friends started arriving because with the power out they had nothing to do.

Eventually the power came back on and Z~ (who is jealous of his little sister because her school just rented out to her a brand new Cannonball Saxophone) and his friend played the sax for a bit. (I like hearing the sax.)

And now it's Friday night and I've got nothing fun to do but I may (or may not) tackle the laundry. Or I may watch a movie. Or I might just go to bed.

All in all it's been a good day.