Wednesday, September 17, 2008

The most unusual Sunday ever..

Well we are surviving here in Louisville...Hurricane Ike literally "blew us away"...This past weekend we traveled to Paducah, to what was going to be a relaxing weekend and my baby shower..Sunday morning I woke up to the wind howling..and I thought nothing of it..it was time to get ready for church and that is when the lights started flickering..I jumped in the shower to try and get ready before we lost power..but it was to late..Paducah had lost power as the winds picked up..I was still optimistic by this point about my shower that afternoon..I just knew the power would be back up and running...as we sat at Grandmom's eating breakfast we watched about EVERY tree in their back yard fall to the ground..you would hear a big "crack" and then try to pick which tree was going to fall..About noon I realized that the shower probably wasn't going to happen..I hadn't slept well all weekend..and that's when the hormones took over..I lost it..I haven't been that upset in a long time..luckily my husband is amazing and talked some sense into me, and made me realize that alot of people aren't as lucky as we are..which is very true..to be honest I wasn't that upset I am usually very patient and know that things will work out..I am def. blaming this meltdown on pregnancy haha..My great-grandmother who is 91..had power at her house, which is less than a mile from the church where the shower was to take place...so my mom and grandmother did a wonderful job of getting things set up down there..and everything fell into place! I didn't really get to socialize alot with anyone..but I am so blessed that almost 60 people stopped by to give me their gift and wish us the best of luck..that is what I love so much about people in Paducah..I was so overwhelmed by everyone's generosity and love..Thank you so much for making it a great day, despite the 75mph winds that had just whipped through! I Love You All..



The Girls of my family..5 generations in this picture when including the one in my belly ;)This is the loot that we got to fit in the car..we left the other 1/2 in Paducah b/c it wouldn't fit!
That's all for now..MM


2 comments:

Amanda said...

Hey. I'm glad you made it through your meltdown and even happier that you had a great shower. Looks like you got plenty of things you needed. We had our shower on Saturday and it went great, too. We almost have everything we need. Glad to see your dr. appt. went well, too. Luckily, we drove home on Saturday so we avoided the nasty wind while traveling. Instead, we were home to watch the trees around us get blown down and watched shingles flying off our roof like the Wizard of Oz. We lost power for 2.5 days and now we're back on!!!! Hope all went well with you guys and your families. PS--The expectant parent classes and breastfeeding clsses have been pretty informative!!

Sarah said...

I am so happy you are safe and it's ok to have a melt down on "Jack's" day! You wanted to celebrate him and things just didn't go right. Keep your head up and guess what? He's going to be in your arms so soon! We miss hanging out and thanks again for keeping Zoe on Mon!!