Day 180: Sleeping through

Yes E5N1 is now sleeping through the night (as long as 5 am counts as morning).

This evening (at about 7 pm) we had a very violent thunderstorm. Exile #2 and I are not ashamed to admit to being a bit nervous even in our own house. One strike must have been just down the road. Flash and bang (not really like thunder at all) were simultaneous as far as we could tell. A few minutes later we heard sirens. The road outside was flowing with surface water because the rain was so hard at times. We lost power once for about 2 minutes.

This came at the end of a good day. A plumber came and did a very thorough job of clearing our pipes and hopefully sorting out two root-causes of the problem. The cable guy came and sorted us out with TV, phone and internet (hooray!). What a joy to be typing this on a full keyboard again. We bought every small appliance in the hardware store (or so it felt). Actual list: microwave, vacuum cleaner, slow cooker and iron (all things we couldn't bring thanks to the mains-supply differences except the slow cooker which is Exile #2's birthday present) and various other items. Front room, dining room and kitchen are all basically unpacked and up-and-running.

We were able to get all this done because the girls were at camp all day (9 to 3), at the school. For Exile #4 this is probably quite a shock to the system - effectively a full day of pre-school with no ramp-up. The both had a great time by all accounts but were quite tired by the end of the day - good thing too - they slept soundly through the storm.