Chess n' Checkers n' Christmas City

( What We Did Today - cross-posted from TH... )

Last minute addendum: Rachel finished the book already. She read it while I was writing this post. =P

Well, that won't work...

Deb left her cell phone here... I saw it earlier, but it didn't hit me until now.

She's down in Philly at a Jeffrey Gaines concert. I suppose her friend Debbie might have a phone if they need to get a hold of someone...

Yet More Adventures!

The power just went out.

Hey, kids, I'm going to plug in our new sooper-dooper brighter-than-thou holiday light display... here goes... BZAP.

Or, at least, that's my best guess as to what happened. I did verify that it wasn't just us, and it wasn't (most likely) the chipmunk/mouse/whatever that had been nibbling around in one of the walls five minutes earlier. It was off for long enough for Rachel to remember she had a flashlight in her "sick bag" she had just packed herself and was carrying around; long enough for us to use the flashlight to light one candle for the table, poke my head outside and see absolutely no light source anywhere, and then run up for my flashlights. When I went to go swap rechargeable batteries on the one, the power came back.

Mr. B. is finally sent off to bed, and now Justin, Rachel, and I will wrap Deb's presents. Tomorrow we'll put up our small, subtle display of mostly low-key mellow blue lights (with one wild n' crazy multi-color string! =) Maybe set the tree up, although we probably won't decorate until next weekend.

Then... bed. /me tired.