Surviving the Storm

I've heard there is a storm coming our way, and appears there is already quite a bit of snow outside. I'm not sure whether it had to do with the weather or not, but we encountered a 4-5 hour power outage last night. It was unfortunate for quite a few reasons.

#1, Mike had just got settled in for an efficient evening of work on his new computer, which was not hooked up to a battery back-up

#2, I had a meal in the crockpot that still needed a couple hours of simmering and was cold by dinnertime with crunchy onions

#3, Adelyn and I had worked on a special treat, French Bread and had it rising when the power went out... with no way to cook it an hour later when it was oven time

Solutions:

#1, Mike will have to get up early tomorrow morning for work :) but ended up playing most of the evening with us by a camping lantern light (I don't remember why Michael was wearing sunglasses since we hardly had any light. It is a current obsession of his)

#2, Yes!! We have a gas stove, so all it took was a match and we heated up our dinner

#3, No, our gas oven does not work, so we tried to grill the French Bread. It worked, it just tasted a little smokey. Although it was memorable, we won't need to do it again. It kind of ruined my pan.