Soooo.... Part 2

Well, I expected that she just might say no. What I didn't expect was that she was going to flip the fuck out on me screaming in front of people at my work that I was an awful parent and that she was going to have my kids taken away from me.

WTF????

Can I tell you people how many times our poor white trash existence was interrupted by no electricity in our trailer when I was a kid? How many times we had to go out to the gas oven and warm up because there was no other heat? Not to mention how dangerous that really is.... Well, let's see....lots.. I'm sure more times than I can remember. So for her to flip out on me like that over this one instance was absolutely ridiculous. I've been on my own since I was 18 and have never had my electric turned off.

Lately with the reduced paycheck, increase in my mortgage and other expenses related to the baby, I'm spending a little more than I'm making. I'm kind of in a bind though, because I really can't get a 2nd job, as much as I would like to get out of the house a few evenings a week. Gavin's sports schedule and finding someone to watch the baby just won't accommodate it. And she's certainly not going to run him all over the place, so whatever. I'm starting to get back to regular paychecks now, so I'll get it worked out.

Anyways, once she calmed down, she came back over asking if the boys could spend the night at her house. I told her no. If they were upset about not having electric, they could stay at Tara's house right down the street. Gavin calls me to ask me if I know the power's out and I tell him yes, sometimes things like this have to happen in order to have a roof over our heads at all. He says ok and hangs up the phone. When I get home, the kids are playing in the front yard as usual.

Gavin asks me if I purposely had the electric turned off because they haven't been listening to me. I told him no, though that would have been a good idea. I crash for a couple of hours because I'm still super sick. When I get up, it's raining outside and the kids are sitting in the living room playing Monopoly. It's refreshing seeing them do something besides sitting on the computer or in front of the tv.

As it gets dark, we gather candles and place them all over the house.  Brandon and Gavin decide that they will both sleep in Gavin's room because Brandon is afraid of the dark. By 9pm, all three kids are asleep and all is well.

As a side note, I still have running water and my water heater is gas, so it still functions. It's not like none of that works too. Besides, for hundreds of years people lived without electric, what's a few days in the grand scheme of things?? Maybe it'll make these kids understand there are things more important than computers and video games.....