an interruption....

if you haven't heard of the "Big Ice" storm that hit central Mass last Thursday into Friday you must have been living in a whole!... our friend's son read about Holden in the news on-line in Ireland... We went to bed Thursday (or Friday) after midnight after loosing power... the night was full of crashing.... falling... tumbling and we woke up to this~

It was amazing, scary, exciting, shocking all at once!!!

I wasn't sure what to think but knowing I had to be to work all weekend (my last three night stretch before the baby comes) and the house was already only 57 degrees we headed to Mimi and Papa's where they at least had heat from the wood stove... after eating Chex and PB crackers in our bed (the warmest place in the house) while Daddy helped a neighbor and cleaned up the driveway.... we headed out packed for a day or two... with both kitties crying the whole way!

the drive was frightening as branches were still falling and lines were everywhere but we made it safely around noontime.... That night we had dinner by propane lantern... grilled chicken and rice pilaf with a side of left over stuffed shells that I knew would go bad if left in the house...
Mimi and Papa had power by 0230am on Saturday (they weren't so hardly hit) and I worked all weekend sleeping at Kevin's Aunt's in Bolton (she never lost power).... it was more like a B and B but I was stressed out and the whole thing seems like a dream now.... we recieved power on our street Monday but our power lines to our house were ripped off and we needed and electrition to hoook it up.... I called about 20 of them on Tuesday morning and the first one I called I had told I was almost 9 months pregnant and had two children 3 and under... I had power in 4 hours!!! Praise God!
the damage is mostly to our tress only one branch hit the house... we will be cleaning up till spring and now everything is snow covered from a storm yesterday and we might get 6 inches or more on Friday.... it looks like we will have a white Christmas for sure...

so to celebrate on Tuesday we had 9 friends (all who had no power) over for homemade pizza... it felt good to talk about the storm knowing we had conquered the storm in some and to feel heat from the stove and to think before I turned on every light switch... I was certainly humbled... it was hard to even straighten my hair!....




many of our friends still have no power.... and the stress is building up... please pray for all of those who are roughing it and that we would know how to serve them in the midst of this season...