This cute little face...i mean, how could you not enjoy no air conditioning, the electricity being off and five people crammed in a house when you have this sweet face looking at you...loving on you....and just being so DANG cute!! Ironically, he is right at 8 weeks in this picture..yes, i said 8 weeks, not 8 months! He is so stinking big!! I think around 15 pounds in this picture. And he loves his Aunt K...well, he loves her "pillows"...every time he was sleepy, let me let you guess where he slept! and if he wasn't sleeping, his little hand was there making sure they were still there... I laughed with his momma, saying, man, he is starting early - trying to feel up the girls!!!
The hurricane was an adventure. That is the only way that i think to describe it. I was holed up at my friend's house, S&R, and we went to bed thinking we would wake up and it was all over...well, we woke up all right at 3 am and all congregated in the living room -- laughing till we were almost crying because we were delirious. The wind was howling and swirling around the house, but it was so dark, you couldn't see what was going on. And of course, sweet little baby W slept through the whole dang thing!!! We survived, and with a generator, we had "power" so we had some lights, the TV and a fridge working so we weren't in such a bad place...but with no a/c, we were thankful that God gave us a cold front to make it bearable. All in all, it wasn't too bad (because I had people with generators and electricity!) - but it was hard not having electricity at my house for a week and having to "squat" at different friend's houses! But everyone was so gracious letting me stay with them (and for all their offers!) and for that I am so thankful!
The one thing cool thing that came out of the hurricane was everyone helping everyone out -- you saw neighbors come out of their house and talk to everyone, all the kids out playing together becuase it was just too hot to be cooped up inside (and with no power everyone went to bed so much earlier and their parents wanted them pooped!), and when a tree fell on a house or over a road, or in a yard, all the neighbors came out to help. At S&R's house, a neighbor who was out of town had a pine tree fall on his house. S and R's dad were over there with the other neighbors, climbing on the roof, putting down tarps and making sure everything was okay. At work, everyone was telling stories of the same -- helping each other out, bar-b-que's in people's backyards to use the food that was about to go bad...it was amazing. It sucks that it takes a natural disaster to come out and hang out together, and to bring the communities together...but we'll take what we can get!
No comments:
Post a Comment