Glucometer by candlelight

We here in lovely Maryland have had no power since Friday evening.  Its been a long, hot weekend.  I am back at work today, Adam and James are with his dad, where power has been restored, and we are still waiting.
Did you know that if its over 100 outdoors, its probably 85 - 90 in your house?  That's pretty hot!
Hopefully, we will get power back today, but I'm not holding my breath.
As my title indicates, I've been doing a lot of blood sugar readings by candle light.  I miss television and I am truly a spoiled, first world resident.  Its just so hot!
That is all for now.  Updates will come as they are available!

No longer Amish

We can now say that we've survived Hurricane Irene, because as of 5:30am this morning, we have power!  Yay!  Even though it was a pain in the butt to not have power and we ended up pitching most of what was in our fridge, life wasn't too horrible.  James goes to bed before the sun goes down anyway and after that we just listened to music on my laptop and hung out.  It was actually nice to have some adult time where we weren't online or watching television.  We go to bed fairly early anyway, as we are freakishly early risers, and had no problems with our hot water.  We have a gas hot water heater, which I'm told still uses electricity, but either way, we had hot showers.  They might have been hot showers by flash light, but luckily I am not the kind of woman that needs to blow dry, flat iron, and otherwise mess with my hair.  You can chalk that up to sheer laziness, but in times like this it was nice to not look totally gross (just my usual level of gross).
So we are rolling on with our usual schedules and hectic life.  Nothing too exciting on the horizons for us, James has his 15 month check up next month and football season is upon us.  Adam's dad has season tickets for the Ravens, so we lose Adam's company every other weekend when they play at home.  The Maryland Wine Festival (aka Girl Time with Jackie and Sarah) is also September 17 and 18, which I am definitely looking forward to.  Other than that, we are still on the look out for James to take his first steps!

An evening with Irene

Well the storm of the century has come and gone and left us with no power!  Irene rolled through Saturday night and finally died down around 7am on Sunday morning.  Sometime around 1am on Sunday we lost power.  And it hasn't been on since.  It really hasn't been that bad, the weather is cool so we opened up our windows and let the breeze in.  We also went to Sam's club and bought a bunch of ice for our cooler.  The food from the fridge has been nice and cold in the cooler and life goes on!  Yesterday, we headed out to Arundel Mills Mall (with the rest of Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties, it seemed) and had dinner with Adam's mom at Chevy's Fresh Mex.  James went to bed at his usual time and Adam and I hung out in the candlelit and listened to music on my laptop until it died.  Today, I am at work, James is at daycare (although their power is out too), and Adam is going to the dentist in a little while.  Obviously, since I am writing this, there is power at work and I am charging all of our electronics in preparation for another dark evening.  The State of Maryland has liberal leave today, but I'd rather be here in the lights than at home in the dark.  My building is pretty empty, so we'll see who ends up here throughout the day.

He's a sleeper...

Hey, did you guys hear about the earthquake we had on the East Coast yesterday?  Oh yea, you did? 

Well, James slept through it.

That's my boy!