Our Power is BACK!!

What a blessing!! The power is back and our central heat is running once again keeping us warm and cozy in our own home! Last week was a challenge, and yet so humbling. Our power came back on Friday at 3:58pm. I was on the phone with a friend, at the same time laying down with Kateli on our bed trying to get her to take her afternoon nap. Joshua was in his swing sleeping. Prior to laying down with my baby girl, I peeked out the front door and saw that there were 3 ENTERGY trucks just outside the house at the neighbors, and I prayed that it meant our power would be back on shortly. As I talked with my friend and cuddled Kateli I kept my eyes focused outside of the bedroom, on the hallway and on the bath. Suddenly the hall light came on!! Oh, I LEAPED out of bed and yelled out "our power is back!!" I was ecstatic!! It was an awesome feeling...Kateli gave me this funny look, as if wondering "what has gotten into mommy?" And then she squealed out "Yey!"

So, what did I do next?? I proceeded to start up our central heat, to light up the christmas tree and to turn on all the lights (okay, not ALL the lights, but the majority of them). Then I called daddy to share the wonderful news; I also made a few more phone calls to let family and some friends know that we were no longer powerless :).

The ice storm did major damage to our city's landscape. Our neighborhood suffered immensely. There was so much debris from tree limbs and from whole trees that were lost. We got some pictures, but I have yet to download them. I'm still trying to catch up with doing all of what I missed last week, like more laundry, cleaning, vacuuming, etc etc. I still have to do some grocery shopping as we lost most of the food we had in the fridge. I'll post some of the pictures later.