This is a picture of Ike's water already invading Texas and it has not made land fall yet. These pictures were actually yesterday, it is already breaching the sea walls. I have been watching CNN and seeing the flooding already, and of course Robert is on his way there as we speak. At least he is staying in Austin, but he will be driving down to the areas that are flooded after the waters reside. He puts up a good front, but I am sure that he is scared. Keep him in your prayers.

Hurricane

Another hurricane on the gulf coast! Well this one is turning my house upside down! Robert got a call this morning that he has to go down to Texas for hurricane relief, before it even hits! He is on the emergency response team at work. He works for an environmental company that deals with problems associated with moisture. I suppose that there will be lots of moisture from a hurricane. What do you pack and for how long? There is a good possibility that there will be no phone service, no internet and maybe no hotel room either. This is scary since he will be there during the hurricane and I may not be able to contact him and know if he is ok. They want him as close to the town as possible so that he can get to the sight quickly, but it is not like you can camp out in a hurricane. Keep him in your prayers!!! Will keep you updated as it progresses.

Little Blessings

I went to a Career Talk last night at Greenville Tech. I thought I had everything together to apply for Nursing School in the Spring, but of course, I did not. I spent all day today making sure that everything would get to the school by Friday so that I could get my application in by Monday, the deadline. I got a little grumpy this morning, but then I realized that everytime I thought things were going wrong God has turned the situation around. It has been so awesome how God has allowed everything to fall in place. Losing my job has turned out to be a "blessing in disquise". I am learning so much about how God works through tough times to make us stronger and better.

Question

Is there any aspect of your life that is a huge mess but you make it look all pretty to outsiders. You don't want anyone to know how messed up that part of your life is. I am pretty sure that all of us probably do, my goal is to clean that part of my life up so that I am not having to masquerade that part of my life.

Entire Family Night

Last night we planned to take the boys to get pizza at Brixx, their favorite pizza in this area, only Barsoni's Pizza in Cortland, NY tops Brixx for all of my boys, including Robert. In fact at supper Storm even commented on how great Barsoni's Pizza was and he would visit NY just to get their pizza. Robert suggested that I ask Storm to come and we also invited Whitney, his girlfriend of almost 2 years, who I love, she's a red head! We had a great time. I pray that the past will be healed and forgotten so that we can be a family again!!!!

Heather Whittaker has inspired me to spend more time with the boys on her blog http://whittakerwoman.typepad.com/. She has some of the best ideas, her kids are smaller so she gets creative, sometimes it is all I can do to get them all to go out together!

Storm sporting Whitney's glasses
Storm and Whitney.

Atlanta

My husband and I visited Atlanta yesterday. After driving down I-85, I285 and Highway 20 I will never fuss about traffic on Reidville Road, Woodruff Road or I-85 between Pelham Road and I-385. What we see as a traffic jam is just a little delay. I saw traffic on 85 just outside of Atlanta that was at a complete stop going into town due to a wreck. There were people out of their cars having conversations with each other, like this was a normal thing. Thank God for our traffic jams in Greenville/Spartanburg, I will not fuss about them again. (Until I am late because of one again, haha!)

The Smurf's Village

Braxton and I have been taking care of our neighbors fish while they are gone to the beach this weekend. Right in front of their front door is this group of mushrooms. Braxton is positive that it is the Smurf village.

The Smurf village.
Braxton with the Smurf village.

Braxton looking for the Smurfs. No luck yet, but if we find Papa Smurf we will let you know!