Saturday, November 21, 2009
Rather Than a Pregnancy Update....
How about a baby update instead? I didn't mean to leave you hanging after the last post but OhMyGoodnessWeHaveABaby!! Baby C is here and she's beautiful and perfect. As soon as I get a little sleep, I'll tell you the whole glorious story of her arrival. Until then, I hope a few pictures will tide you over!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Safe
One of the first things I fell in love with about our neighborhood was the fact that there were so many beautiful, mature trees.
Ironically, on Thursday afternoon as I huddled with my children in total darkness in our bathtub while a tornado ripped through our neighborhood, those trees caused fear deep within my soul. If any of the ones immediately surrounding our house were to fall, we were in trouble. We've had rain for weeks on end now with very little break for the ground to dry. With the heavy saturation, I knew that the tornado and winds could cause even more havoc in our neighborhood.
What seemed like an eternity passed and I could hear police and fire sirens whizzing past our house. I knew that if they were out, the worst was over. Leaving the kids in our safe place, I snuck out to survey the situation. Our neighborhood was alive with people milling about and police, fire and ambulance workers crowding the streets.
I cried as I looked around and realized just how blessed we were. I called Big Daddy to let him know we were safe and hearing his voice made me cry even harder. We were safe. We have trees down in the yard (none on the house!), shutters and shingles off the house and our fence was down...but we were safe. The worst damage was done by our beautiful old oak tree. The entire thing is now resting on top of our neighbor's car.
One block up from us, is a far more devastating scene. Houses are without their roofs and a few caught on fire from lightening strikes.
We ended up back in our "safe place" for another hour that night praying that the meteorologist was wrong and that another storm wasn't heading our way. Thankfully, we only got severe thunder storms for the rest of the evening. Even better, this time we were all together because Big Daddy was home. Something about his presence and just having all of us together made it all seem less horrible.
Most of us now have electricity back on and the cleaning up process is well underway. In the past few days, we've seen the best of people and the worst. The best is neighbors checking on each other and strangers stopping to help clean up fallen trees. The worst is the non-stop line of people knocking down our door offering to help for a small fortune.
I will post pictures in a couple of days as we have time to sort through them. I also have updates on the baby growing process this week. I know I've been terrible about updating my blog and I really do miss it and I promise to do better. I miss all of my blog friends and this funk I've been in is hopefully ending and I'll be a posting fool in no time.
Ironically, on Thursday afternoon as I huddled with my children in total darkness in our bathtub while a tornado ripped through our neighborhood, those trees caused fear deep within my soul. If any of the ones immediately surrounding our house were to fall, we were in trouble. We've had rain for weeks on end now with very little break for the ground to dry. With the heavy saturation, I knew that the tornado and winds could cause even more havoc in our neighborhood.
What seemed like an eternity passed and I could hear police and fire sirens whizzing past our house. I knew that if they were out, the worst was over. Leaving the kids in our safe place, I snuck out to survey the situation. Our neighborhood was alive with people milling about and police, fire and ambulance workers crowding the streets.
I cried as I looked around and realized just how blessed we were. I called Big Daddy to let him know we were safe and hearing his voice made me cry even harder. We were safe. We have trees down in the yard (none on the house!), shutters and shingles off the house and our fence was down...but we were safe. The worst damage was done by our beautiful old oak tree. The entire thing is now resting on top of our neighbor's car.
One block up from us, is a far more devastating scene. Houses are without their roofs and a few caught on fire from lightening strikes.
We ended up back in our "safe place" for another hour that night praying that the meteorologist was wrong and that another storm wasn't heading our way. Thankfully, we only got severe thunder storms for the rest of the evening. Even better, this time we were all together because Big Daddy was home. Something about his presence and just having all of us together made it all seem less horrible.
Most of us now have electricity back on and the cleaning up process is well underway. In the past few days, we've seen the best of people and the worst. The best is neighbors checking on each other and strangers stopping to help clean up fallen trees. The worst is the non-stop line of people knocking down our door offering to help for a small fortune.
I will post pictures in a couple of days as we have time to sort through them. I also have updates on the baby growing process this week. I know I've been terrible about updating my blog and I really do miss it and I promise to do better. I miss all of my blog friends and this funk I've been in is hopefully ending and I'll be a posting fool in no time.
Who Is The Fairest Of Them All?
Did you know that Disney recently re-released the classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? Even better, this time, you can get the Disney Diamond Edition Combo Pack with the movie on Blu-ray! One2One Network sent me the combo pack and we have had a blast with it as a family! (Here's where I confess that until this arrived, I had never watched the movie. I know, it's a shame, right? Never fear, the original princess and I are now well acquainted!)
If you don't know about Blu-ray, you are missing out. We've been big fans around here for a while because Big Daddy's Playstation 3 doubles as a Blu-ray player and he's been singing the praises of the Blu-ray ever since we got it! Blu-ray has up to six times better quality picture than regular DVD and is more scratch resistant (which comes in handy around our house!). If you don't have a PS3 or Blu-ray player, you may just want to add it to your Christmas list because this is the next big thing and you will still be able to play your DVD's on it!
When you watch Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Blu-ray, it's hard to believe that this movie has been around since 1937 because the quality is great! This combo pack really is an amazing deal for your family. Once we finished the movie, we spent another hour just playing the games on the disc and playing with the sing along feature; it was family night at it's best!
I'm really impressed with Disney for releasing their new and previously vaulted movies in these combo packs for so many reasons but the most important for us is that we will watch the Blu-ray at home for movie nights but we still have a DVD to watch in the car and on the lap top for road trips.
Thanks again One2One Network for sending this combo pack our way! We're still enjoying it!
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