Home Again!

The Winter Storm of 2009 made things a bit exciting for us this week. We watched the forecasts and waited to see what would come our way. We were prepared for the snow, but not the ice that came instead. We got about an inch and a half ice starting Monday evening and continuing through Tuesday afternoon and on into the night. We woke up around midnight when the power went out then laid in bed awake and listening the crackle and crash of falling ice coated limbs. These sounds alternated with the explosions of transformers. We got very little sleep that night. The next morning we fished out an old radio and batteries to figure out what was going on outside our cold, dark house. We dug the old chorded phone out of the boys' toy chest and started making phone calls. I got the cooler up from the basement and transferred groceries out of the fridge to put outside in the cooler. Josh and I worked together to situate things at home in preparation for leaving it for a while...not knowing how long that would be...until he had to leave for work. I was working on packing up some clothes and other stuff and heard the spinning tires outside. Josh was stuck! My orderly packing turned to hasty tossing of stuff into bags so Josh could drop us off at his parents' house on his way to work - in the truck. Two to three times per day we were checking on the house and our pipes until Sunday morning when the power finally came back on. Obviously under normal circumstances life is easier at home, but we were fortunate enough to have a warm, hospitable place to stay. The boys were well entertained with games, movies, the computer and their own imagination (we also went sledding Thursday afternoon and swimming at the Y on Friday to get them out of the house). I got some much needed continuing ed finished online and were definitely well-fed (GOT to get back to the running this week). I even got to celebrate my birthday with my boys and the Wittmers at Biaggi's for dinner followed by Godiva double chocolate cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory at the Wittmer's. It was really nice and very much appreciated. My parents and Tim were supposed to be here, but with our situation it just didn't make sense for them to come. I was really looking forward to having them here, but that's the way it goes when your birthday is in the middle of winter! Hopefully they will make it up here later this month. If we run into more weather problems, maybe we'll wait til spring? Anyway, thanks for all of the emails and phone calls checking in on us - it is always nice to know people are thinking of you. If you offered us any prayers THANKS - and kindly redirect them on behalf of all those still without power. It may be a while yet for others, especially in Kentucky.

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