Not Exactly a Fun Friday

On Thursday afternoon I noticed that the forecast for thunderstorms had changed to a severe storm warning that included large hail, damaging winds, and lots of rain.  In preparation I quickly heated up dinner, got our milk and drinks all poured, and started praying that we wouldn't lose power.  Around 6pm the inevitable happened and we lost all power.  At first it was a fun adventure, but after hours and hours of no power it was no longer fun for anyone!  I was up most of the night stressing over all of the food that would have to be thrown out in our freezers and continually checking ot see if Duke Energy had an update on when the power would be restored.  No update and still no power well into the morning daylight hours.  After using our handy dandy smart phones we were able to determine that the freezers should be okay up to 48 hours as long as they aren't opened, but the fridge was already past the saving point.  I picked up some ice on my way home from the YMCA and we iced our yogurts and as much fridge stuff as we could, but the 3 gallons of milk I bought in preparation for guests all weekend had to go. :( 

We tried to carry on with things as we usually would.  Thankfully it was a cool day and there was a nice breeze blowing too.  We also were super thankful that we had city water and a gas hot water heater which enabled us to have hot showers too.  Anyway, after Preston's ENT appointment (which determined that he does not currently need tubes and is hearing perfectly fine) and a stop by the grocery store to pick up the birthday cookies we headed home, still praying for an update of power restoration.  However, we arrived home and still had no power.  Duke Energy updated their system to say that power should be restored by 11pm on SUNDAY!!!

Now this simply was not going to work.  The kids party was set for Saturday and Dave's parents were on their way, set to arrive around 5pm.  We continued to pray and then decided to take a walk to ask the power men working on the lines for an update.  I went next door and got Ms. Marlene to walk with us and off we went to investigate.  Thankfully, after talking to the Pike crew they assured us that power would be back on by 6pm at the latest, but probably earlier.  Hallelujah!!!



Our grill has arrived!

We headed home just in time for our grill delivery.  I guess it was perfect timing for grilling out, but I had no clue when we bought the grill that we would not have power when it arrived.  I was working in the kitchen cleaning out the fridge when Preston screams, "Mom, there's a big truck outside."  I thought yes, I know, the grill is coming today. . . but had no clue they were sending our grill on a semi!!  Apparently the smaller trucks were all full and this is the only way they could bring our grill.  When the man arrived, I explained that we had no power and thanked him for bringing such a large truck to entertain my kids.  He loved the thought of entertaining them and asked if it was okay to let them sit in the fork lift and raise the pad up and down.



Savannah was first to try out the fork lift

Preston wanted to try too

Thankfully, our power was restored around 5:15, just 30 minutes before Dave's parents arrived from Georgia.  We had already planned to take them out for their anniversary so once Dave got home off to Chili's we went.

The day got even more adventuresome as Preston started complaining about a tummy ache right after we ordered dinner.  I thought he was just hungry, but we weren't quite that lucky.  Praise the Lord we had decided to eat on the patio because shortly after picking him up he threw up all over us both . . . TWICE!  We quickly packed up our dinner that was left and headed home to put the kids to bed.  It was the oddest thing because he slept all through the night and was perfectly normal all day on Saturday, eating pizza, cake and all.  Whew!  I'm just praying we dont' have any more power outages anytime soon because I'm not sure I can handle any more of that stress!