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Earth Hour and Other Failures, Like Spring

Saturday was Earth Hour. It took me by surprise because I sometimes confuse it with Earth Day, which I know happens in real spring, not fake spring, the season we’re in now.

We failed Earth Hour.

We turned off our lights from 8-9 PM, when it was supposed to be 8:30-9:30 PM. We rocked Earth Hour from midnight to 6 AM, however.

Our kids hated Earth Hour. Apparently they’re not big fans of the dark, which isn’t really surprising given the number of lights that they leave on. We’re hoping that they learned that our light switches do indeed have off positions.

Earth Hour 2

It’s -20 C with the windchill here and it has snowed for 7 straight days. Calls to crisis lines are up, not because people are stuck in their vehicles, but because people are stuck in their houses with the people they love.

Evidently the winter slaughtered the lambs because it came in like a lion and went out like a lion whose pride was threatened.

I tried to deal with winter by taking the kids tobogganing. I did this by pulling up to the sledding hill and watching them from inside the car while I sipped warm tea. I didn’t call the crisis line, so it was a win-win, though I did tweet this:

Sledding Tweet

Here’s a 16-second video of our twins tobogganing. Be sure to watch it to the end when Vivian and William collide.

Happy Winter…

Snow Spring 4-letter word

Filed Under: Funny Family Moments

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  1. Elyse says

    March 31, 2014 at 10:37 am

    We totally rocked Earth hour by completly forgetting to anything but by some happy chance we were invited out to a friends house who also completely forget earth hour so whilst our own house sat in total darkness we just used someone else’s electricity! I am taking that as a win!

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    • Heather Atton Cook says

      March 31, 2014 at 10:43 pm

      We did that as well! Our house was awesome for Earth Hour … however over at my mom’s we were Using All The Appliances, 2 TVs and a game system. Whoops.

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  2. Shaunacey says

    March 31, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    I didn’t realize it was Earth Hour until I saw a Facebook update from my computer, that I was using in a well-lit room, while watching the hockey game. That’s an Earth Hour fail.
    I honestly didn’t see anything about it this year and there was no way I was getting him to turn off the tv in the middle of the hockey game. There’s always next “spring”.

    That video is hilarious, I think the end is my favourite! She seemed so proud until she was run over!

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  3. Heather says

    March 31, 2014 at 10:12 pm

    I absolutely feel that we’re in crisis. Help me. Please.

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  4. Tea & Nail Polish says

    April 2, 2014 at 10:27 am

    I tried to rock Earth Hour until he came home, grumbling as he knocked into stuff because there were no lights on and how the **** can you see what you are doing.
    He promptly turned on every light in the place so he could see the damage he did to his leg (not even a bruise) and negated the whole power savings of me turning off the 2 we would usually have on

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  5. Rosy says

    April 9, 2014 at 9:48 am

    We totally forgot the Earth Hour but did catch up on Sunday to compensate. I think that counts : )

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  6. The Hook says

    April 11, 2014 at 5:25 pm

    Don’t fail bad, Leanne, I failed Earth hour too.
    The planet will survive – hopefully.

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