Survived Ice Storm

If you have been watching the National News, you all know that we were hit with a bad ice storm. You can see what the storm did to our beautiful trees. The pics show the first day of ice, by the time Old Man Winter was through with the ice not many trees were left in the backyard. What an awful sound the trees made as the branches broke from the ice. The front yard trees did hold up ok. We were without power for 3 full days! Even Wal-Mart was closed for a day for lack of power. Katie and I could not stand the freezing cold house and luckily I have friends. My dear friend Shannon let us stay with her family. She was great! Thank you so much! Cory on the other hand froze his tushie off (by choice) at the house every night. He used the turkey fryer to warm up the bedroom every night before going to bed. How redneck is that? The first night without power, thinking I would soon have electricity, I stayed at home in the cold house. For dinner that night Cory made us hobo stew (Everything in the fridge thrown in a pot)on our patio with the turkey fryer and we ate it by candlelight. How romantic! To cook that dinner he used one of my best pots which then was covered in black stuff from the fryer. After it cooled off, he placed it in the fridge and after our electricity was restored I found black fingerprints on our white fridge along with black stuff all over the inside of the fridge. I was upset! On another evening he decided to save our food by placing it outside where it was much colder but being sick of the dog my darling husband kicked Molly our dog out of the house. Needless to say she enjoyed a buffet of food (hot dogs and shrimp cocktail just to name a few). I have found that we do some crazy things when we are in the middle of a crisis. We are fine now in our warm home that I have spent most of the day trying to clean up. Now that we have survived the ice, we are bracing ourselves for the snow storm coming this weekend. Katie has been out of school all week and I am ready for her to go back to school.

By the way, I went to the doctor yesterday and I am now at a 3. I just pray that Charley does not arrive this weekend with the snow! Mom says it does not matter rain, snow, sleet or hail she will be here!