Power Outage and One Smart Boy

The whole Gila Valley's power went out the other day. It was interesting to experience this 3-4 hour ordeal. It showed many of us what we should have during something like this. After staying at home for awhile and the kids getting restless with not having any lights, video games, or TV, I decided to go up to town and do some grocery shopping. While on my way, Chantel called and asked me what we were doing. I told her that I was headed up to town. She reminded me that it was pointless because the registers at all stores were down. Jensen was really bummed because I told him that he could spend some of his birthday money at Blockbuster to buy this toy "bob" from Monsters Vs. Aliens. He really had a hard time with no power available to him and now to find out about the stores not working either was just too much to handle.
We decided to go over to my mom's house where Chantel, Rachel, and all the kids were at. My mom found some really annoying gun blasters that they all started to play with. After a while we all decided to go back to our own homes. I decided to get comfortable with a good book. After I got into it, Jensen came walking in with a white envelope.

Jensen: Mom, can we open this and read it?
Mom: Why Jensen, what is it?
Jensen: It is a letter from the electric company.
Mom: Why do you want to open that?
Jensen: Maybe it will tell us what we need to do to get the power to start working again.
Mom: Well Jensen, that is not going to tell us that because it is just a bill and besides, there is nothing we can do about it. The whole valley doesn't have electricity.
Jensen: Well, maybe we could just read it to make sure.
Mom: Jensen, go find something to do. Go read or practice the violin. Enough about the electricity. We can't do anything about it honey.

5 minutes later.....

Jensen: Mom?
Mom: Yes Jensen.
Jensen: I think I know why we have an electric bill!
Mom: Why do we have and electric bill Jensen?
Jensen: Because Matthew and Garrett left the Wii plugged in all weekend and it is still plugged in!!!


You see, Darren had heard on some radio talk show that the Wii game console takes up as much electricity as a refrigerator. So he gave a great lecture to the kids about turning off the power bar when they are done playing with it. Jensen was thinking that our power got turned off because we had an electric bill and Matthew and Garrett were to blame. He wasn't too happy with them.

Smart boy though- he found the electric bill!