The Day After

Christmas was great! Things are different around here because of the ice storm though, not as many houses have lights up this year. I will get to see my fill of lights on Friday at Silver Dollar City. This will be our second year going and I love it. I have been talking about it for weeks. My son got only Legos for Christmas, and he has been busy. It took him all Christmas Day to build his fire station. Today he built his fire boat, which really floats. We're going to put him in the bath tub early tonight and let him have fun. Wehad dinner with our friends at the Chinese restuarant last night (or yearly tradition for Christmas dinner). My husband doesn't like the idea of me spending all day in the kitchen to cook a meal that is eaten in 30 minutes. I would have to say that I agree with him!

Home sweet home!

We lost power at our home for about 6 days. It is so good to be home. You just don't realize how great your home is until you can't be there. We would stop by everyday to check on our house and pick up clean clothes or other supplies, but other than that we did not go home. We slept at two different houses during the ice storm and had heat and the other one did not. I think that at one time about 80% or more of my city did not have power. When that many people don't have heat, you run out of places to go. Quiznos was our refuge from the cold, and we were able to charge up our cell phones there. Good to be home and looking forward to Christmas vacation.