I'M BAAAAACK!

Okay - it's been WAAAAAAY too long since I've posted anything and so much has happened! We survived the "storm" - Hurricane IKE. This is kinda sick I think, I actually wanted to stay! I didn't want to travel to avoid the storm and get stuck somewhere that wasn't home (especially if it turned out to be a little wind and rain!) I actually wanted to see the storm too! What's wrong with me? Is that what all those folks down in New Orleans were thinking? I really thought, "Ya, we'll get some big winds and lots of much needed rain and it'll be sort of fun if the lights go out for awhile!" I've been without power in the middle of winter in Nashville for 9 days (cold!) We went without AC in the hottest days of this past summer here in Texas BUT . . . being without AC AND power after a hurricane, well, it's just yucky! Everyone hangs out outside of their homes because it's just too hot to go inside! My neighbors (and us) cooked outside on our grills and the constant hummmmm of generators was annoooooying!! Not having access to any TV news was slightly agitating too since I really wanted to know what was going on in our city!

It took me just a couple of days of that plus school kids running wild since there was NO school to GET OUT OF TOWN!! I was blessed enough to have several offers and we chose to go to Oklahoma to see an old roommate of mine (not old, just old), Mickie Foris! She not only had a generator we could borrow (which I still need to return!) but she lives on a farm with horses, dogs, kids and a husband willing to let my kids play! This was a freaking vacation for us! Way too cool! My kids will forever remember Hurricane Ike as the time they got to rope calves and ride horses! Thank God for good friends!

Well, since then the weather has been much calmer and we've settled back down to our non-routine kind of life. Treet has finished baseball and is now playing basketball in a church league. We tested Shelbi and found out that she has dyslexia. We are working with that now and she is simply amazing! She's also started Hip-Hop dance classes which she loves. Kove and Ayvan are both taking gymnastics and I - yes I - am their teacher! Makes for some free lessons! Yea!

Okay, I'm tired and the kids are being needy! Imagine that! Gotta run for now!