Whirlwind

Wow...the last 24 hours have been a whirlwind to say the least.

Shortly after posting that last blog, the storms began to fire up in central Oklahoma. Terrorizing Chickasha, Washington, El Reno, Piedmont and many more before the sun even went down. You may have seen video of the tornado tearing that semi truck into shreds. It was crazy.

I had planned on doing homework most of the night, but was quickly captivated by the storm chaser video on my TV. Hours went by and I knew we had nothing to do, but wait. They had been warning us since Sunday that all the elements were there for a tornado of "Tuscaloosa or Joplin magnitude." All I could think of was what would my house look like once it was reduced to a pile of rubble. That's something most of us couldn't even fathom. So finally the storms started moving into our area sometime around 9 or 9:30. We were put under a tornado warning, but things were looking okay, like it was going to go south of us, so I wasn't panicking. Then I noticed on the radar the storm shifted, I might have started to panic at this point. I heard the wind pick up and the rain coming down pretty hard. I went to the living room to tell Gammy to see if our neighbors were going to the cellar and about that time, the sirens in town started to go off and the phone rang. It was our neighbor, frantic and telling us to get up there now. So I grabbed the tote bag I had got together of things we might need, I grabbed Sawyer and started out the door. This time, Da-dad decided to stay home. Great, right? I guess he thinks he's lived on this world long enough and if it's his time to go, he's going to go whether he's in a cellar or our house. So I didn't argue, told him I loved him and took off to the car.

By the time we got to the Baileys (with mom, dad and the kids), it was raining even harder and there were 4 extra adults and 5 extra kids in the cellar than the night before, so needless to say, we were a little crowded. So we waited out the storm and when we got home, the kitchen was flooded and we had no electricity. I got in bed around 1:30, by this time there was no wind, no rain, no thunder, no lightning, nothing. I remember waking up to pull the covers over me, probably after the electricity came back on, but other than that I slept until a little before 10.

That's when Jeannie called to ask me to babysit Caiden. I was tired, but not gonna say no. He's been cranky because he's teething so bad. He did go to the doctor yesterday and he weighs 17.5 pounds. His ears have healed (thank God) and he's perfectly healthy. He does have a cough, but I think it's just allergies, the pediatrician didn't seem to be worried about it.

So that's been my day, I'm absolutely exhausted, but going to do some homework tonight and tomorrow before I leave to go spend the evening with Lauren at The Band Perry concert.

So I gotta go and get some homework done :)