guess i'm not doing very well??

i never feel like anything in our lives is all the interesting, so i don't bother typing anything!

so, let's see. what happened this week? well, sunday- tues were rather boring. just same stuff different day type stuff. then wednesday happened. we started the day with friends doing a playschool outing. the girls had a great time, and got to talk about animals, make no bake cookies, and play with their friends. a friend called and asked if could get his son from school because she had a doctors appt.

so, at 215p i loaded the girls in the car and we left to pick up the kids from school. as i was about to leave steve mentioned that there was a tornado warning for our county. not a watch, a warning. so, i thought ok. i'll just get the kids, drop off my friend's son and head home. no biggie. heck, we live in a valley of the blue ridge mountains after all. LOL.

so, 230p, i got the kids in the car and told them we were going to hurry because of the tornado warning. we talked some about thunder and lightening and at one point we slowed down to look at the horizon which was literally cut in half, dark on top and light on the bottom. there was a perfect LINE in the sky. so, we get into town and we're watching the sky again. to our right the clouds are rolling to the left FAST. the clouds were actually dipping down behind the houses and then back up again. they were moving really fast and the sky was getting darker and darker by the second. the sky to our left was bright and sunny. the winds were picking up a lot.

we made a left onto main street and drove a touch faster. we made a left into our friends subdivision and the sky opened up on us. it was a DOWN POUR instantly. we got to their driveway, and i honked the horn, hoping she'd open her garage door. instead, she pokes her head out the front door and screams " the tornado is coming" as loud as she could. of course, the wind is howling and the rain is coming down in buckets. i freaked! my friend opened her garage door and again screamed, " the tornado is coming." i have a car full of kids and all i could think was that the tornado was coming THEN and was going to suck us up. i literally pulled all of the kids out of the car. the girls were freaking because they didn't want to get wet, oy vey.

we threw all of the kids in her basement bathtub and sat there as the power went out. her kids were supposed to ride the bus home and we had no idea if the school had released them or not. when i had left the school the kids were ON the buses getting ready to leave. we prayed that the kids at school were safe. i called steve and told him to get the baby and get to the basement. his response was, "I'm already down here. i've been trying to get in touch with you for 20 min. your cell phone is at home!" so, we were all tucked in checking for the bus from time to time.

my friend called the school to ask about the buses and the kids that hadn't left with a parent. the school said they had pulled all of the kids off the buses and brought them back into the school and put them in the hallways in the tornado position, they were all safe and the school buses would leave after the threat was over.

about 20 min later the sky was light again and the rain was slowing. so, i decided to put the girls in the car and drive home. we were only one subdivision away from home. like a 2 min drive. i prayed that the tornado had already past and we weren't in the eye of the storm. we got home safely, and ran inside. our neighbor's tree had split in two, away from their house, but that was it for our street.

needless to say, it was quite an exciting afternoon. one we won't soon forget about. the tornado did indeed pass our town. the storm traveled east unti it hit the ocean, causing flooding and deaths, trees down, and loss of electricity, and major damage in a community called Cheasapeake beach, MD. they had a lot of damage as a community. we just lost power for 10 hrs.

saturday got HOT, and in the evening another fast moving storm ran through our town this time littering us with HAIL! and BIG hail at that. i have dents all over my van. :(

now we're back to normal, it's just hot here. the baby has been sleeping through the night which is nice. she was sick last weekend and then A was sick this past weekend, blah. but so far everyone else seems good. we've been going to the farm on fridays which is a ton of fun. last week we picked 7 lbs plus 2 pints of strawberries and made 2 batches of freezer jam. then this past friday we picked 9 lbs plus 3 pint of strawberries and canned preserves as well as jam. a dozen half pints in total. we are set now for a while. we also joined the CSA ( community support agriculture) so, we picked up our share of veggies as well. we froze a bunch of strawberries too. i replanted the basil today. and the girls i spent family home evening planting our sweet potatoes that arrived on saturday.

i washed our slipcovers for our new sofas for the first time today. i was scared because i didn't want them to shrink. but, so far so good. we bought a soda maker. the girls and i have been having fun making soda water LOL. it's just water with carbonation added but it's soda enough for them :). and i love seltzer water! so, it's great for me too.

umm, i guess that's about it. check out my store if you want to shop at all :)

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