WE'RE ALL SAFE AND SOUND!

first, i would like to say thank you to the people who made comments or sent emails to me wishing us luck and safety!

we have been watching ivan for over a week and i was very optimistic that it wasn't going to come here. then once monday rolled around and we started to watch the weather channel (all day long, mind you) we started to get worried. i still didn't want to believe that it was going to come here. plus i knew that mike would want me and the kids to leave, which was something i didn't want to do (if you didn't already know, mike is a police officer and is unable to leave during storms and usually has to work 12-hr shifts).

tuesday work was a madhouse trying to get everything ready for the storm. i was getting more and more worried as the day went on. i tried to find a hotelroom and you couldn't find one for miles. i finally was able to find one off of hotels.com in meridian. i was relieved b/c if i decided to leave then i knew there was a place to go that wasn't that far away. i told the major about and when he tried to reserve a room, he had major problems. well the problem was that hotels.com made a mistake and i ended up having a hotel room in meridan, IDAHO!!! so now i didn't have a place to go and as time went on, i knew i had to leave.

once i got home, me and greta found a hotel room in memphis, tn. thank goodness! so we decided that the four of us would stay the night at mom's tuesday night and we would leave for memphis at 6 am. after i kissed mike goodbye and cried a few more tears (tuesday night i spent the evening crying as i packed up pictures and anything else that i thought was priceless).

the drive up there was not that bad. we expected to be sitting in bumper to bumper traffic, but it seems that most people left tuesday evening/night. we got there safely and noticed that we were staying in a dive. but what the hell, greta and the family were down the hall and if we needed anything, oneil would come to our rescue :)


mike's dad happened to be doing business in memphis, so he was able to stop by and visit with the kids for a lil bit. that was nice and i know he was relieved to see us and know that we were safe. the kids on the other hand, were not on their best behavior, but i guess it was good enough given the circumstances.



thursday morning when we woke up, that is when we saw that the hurricane by passed us and hit mobile (sorry guys!) and i called mike immediately to find out how he was along with all the other officers (i was worried for their safety b/c they have be out on the road driving in all of those heavy winds and rain). he told me it wasn't that bad and the wind and rain wasn't horrific at all. he had driven by the house and it was still standing and that we could come home.

so we packed up really quick and hopped in the car and made our journey home. we were a lil worried again that we would be stuck in traffic, but it was quite speedy.

so now i am home, i have my hubby in my site and i know that all is okay. i feel so bad for all the people that live in mobile/pensacola area. hurricanes are nothing to mess with and they are extremely scary! so i hope everyone over there is very safe!

tomorrow my posts should be on a more friendly note and back to my craftin' ways!