I just read the blog that I wrote earlier about how my freezer thawed up everything and realized that does not make any sense. I should have said that the freezer stopped working. As a result of that, all of the food thawed! Shortly after the freezer broke, the refrigerator stopped working. What a mess! It's fixed now, thank goodness. Dana and I worked for hours on it and had to toss a lot of food. BUT, my fridge/freezer has never looked better.

Normal

Why can't I be like every other mom and love to talk on the telephone and ask a zillion questions so that I always know what is going on with my own family? I think that I know that my kids are fine because they told me so the last time that we spoke. They looked okay. They sounded okay. But then my mom or a friend will ask me some question that seems reasonable enough and I realize that I don't know very much at all actually. The curious (normal?) ones always act stunned that I have so many "I don't knows" to their rapid fire questions about anything. About everything. This has made me ask myself : Why don't I ask questions about things? Do I not want to know if things are not quite perfect or is it because I think I would be told what I need to know? I just don't know. There I go again. After thinking about it, I guess because I grew up in a pastor's home where there were so many secrets being kept about members of the congregations that I learned not to ask or tell. That must have carried throughout my life and nobody ever said to me that I could/should ask and tell now. Maybe this blog will help me be more normal. But only if you guys play along.

Finally!

Well, finally (thanks to Eric) the blog is up and running! I hope that everyone will check in and add something to this so that it does what it was meant to do. What a week it has been. The steady rains finally caused a big mess here. I have never seen so much water gushing down the street. I just stood at the front door and watched in amazement at how much rain was falling and how it was rushing down the road. It was unbelievable. Somehow it made the cedar shake on the front of the house that I just had power washed a couple of weeks ago turn grey again! So terrifying to come upon a road that was closed just minutes before and driving on a road that I knew should be closed, praying that I was not carried with the flow. I felt that way on Monday when things really got crazy. Or in the case of the MidwayRoad bridge, to be the first to come upon it and see that it was underwater. I backed up the road in a panic and after finding a driveway to turn around in, I stopped every car that I passed and warned the cars that had started down Midway to go back, the bridge was under water. It seems wrong to complain when so many people were affected so much worse. Dana's shop flooded and he and all of the workers spent all of last Monday dealing with the water and the damage that it caused. Not to mention what so many in Powder Springs (and in Clarkdale, only a half mile from Nan) were/are suffering through--many lost everything--and nobody had flood insurance because they were not in an area that normally flooded. It reminds me of when Cheri Hutchison screamed that we should all get earthquake insurance because she found out that we were sort of on a fault line here. It is like a dollar a year to have it but nobody listened to her because we have never had an earthquake here. Maybe I should rethink that now...on to other things...a great new show premiered last week, Fast Forward I think it is called or something like that. Premiered on Thursday before Fringe. I loved it!! Right up the Biddy Bunch alley. Those who saw it, weigh in! Tonight's big adventure: the freezer thawed up everything. Of course, I had a freezer full of stuff. Lots of chicken! I guess I will be crockpotting like crazy over the next couple of days. Argh! Well, that's it for now. I will have lots more to say in the next blog. I love you all and miss all of you who are far away!!

Staying connected

This has been created so that we can all stay connected a little bit better! With the family so scattered geographically, I am hoping that this will be a way for us to keep up with what everyone in the family is doing! Let's hope that everyone will play along and keep this interesting. Start blogging!!