What a weekend! Let's see, where to begin...
Since it was starting to sprinkle outside, I had the brilliant idea to watch The Day After Tomorrow. I must have tempted fate. As we settled in with our *free* Hungry Howie's pizza, the events on the screen started to get a little too real. Fresh off the heels of a tornado warning last week, we decided to pause the movie thirty minutes in and turn on the local news to see what was going on with this weather. In a matter of minutes we went from a severe thunderstorm warning to a full blown tornado warning.
I sprang into action. Pillows and sheets in the tub-check. Diapers and boppy-check. Mattress from the spare bedroom-check. All we needed now were the three of us. I got in the tub to nurse Logan to sleep thinking that he would just comply in this emergency situation and fall right on to sleep. Wrong. So wrong. The weather started getting really bad and I kept hearing talk of a reported tornado touchdown on the TV and I started to panic, which if you know anything about babies, when you're scared, they're scared. They have a sixth sense for 100% accurately reading your emotions! So instead of quietly drifting off to sleep, Logan cried. And screamed. And cried some more. I handed him to a calm, collected William, and he instantly calmed down. I seriously need to work on my "mommy-face." Needless to say, we made it out alive with no car or apartment damage (which is more than I can say for the cars in our parking lot that were halfway covered in water with one car even being dragged in the current!)
And then there is peace after the storm. Such beautiful, radiant peace.
Saturday we finished the movie, and I have to say that movie has never been so scary. We also had a very productive day! We cleaned the house and took a bunch of movies and books to HalfPrice and got $165 back! I also finished an incredibly inspiring book called Kisses From Katie (you can follow the blog here: http://kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com/).
Sunday started off with the most delicious muffins of my life- homemade Smores muffins made with love by my one-and-only- and ended with a fun, food-filled Superbowl party at William's mom's house.
Despite the rough (and terrifying!) start, this weekend has been one of the best on record. So many things to be thankful for.
