This - That - and the Other

A hodge podge of stuff - the first is that Ella has her very first loose tooth! Just like with kindergarten, she has waited for this day forever!! The minute that her new teeth would come in, she'd ask me when her tooth would be loose and fall out like her friends! My girl is definitely growing up.
Notice the wide eyes in most pictures? After every picture she asks "did I blink??"



On to Ike - we managed to escape any damage from the high winds, even though all around us were lots of roofs being blown off, trees down everywhere, etc. This morning I went down to the basement to get something and discovered huge amounts of water dripping from the ceiling all over Justin's desk area - where he just happened to have a big basket of pictures that I usually keep in the front room - soaked - totally soaked. Ella's baby calendar, school pictures of Mason and Ella, lots of vacation pictures. I took some out and started trying to dry them off but I don't know how much I'll be able to salvage. Really a bummer. I can't imagine if it were everything I owned like those that really got hit by Ike, Katrina, etc.
Mom/Dad and Margie/Tim are still without power so they brought food from their fridge and freezers over tonight. Luckily we have a big stand-up freezer in the basement to load the stuff in. I just got an email that the schools are closed again tomorrow too...ugh!!!


A Margie update - today was chemo number 7 of 12. After #6 they did the CT scans - all looks good. NED as they say (No Evidence of Disease) according to what they can see on the scans but because there could be itty bitty nasty cells still in there, chemo will continue as planned. Any and all continued prayers are requested and appreciated!

Last - today was the first day of no work for Justin - Friday was his last day. He plans to work hard on the floors over the next few days to get them done - DONE!! and then really hit the search hard (so in the meantime, I'm hitting it hard). He is exploring starting his own business as well - which could be very exciting and very scary too. You may see me rummaging through your trash cans at night if things don't go well over the next few months!

And very last, a couple pictures from last week - Justin caught one of Siley and I smooching. And then we have Ella looking like Marion the Librarian...

Frozen or On the Rocks?

Yes please...unfortunately, Justin had a bit of an accident today while putting down the floors. When he was cutting the wood, a piece shot out of the saw doing about 50 mph and tagged him in the you-know-what - luckily we're both pretty much on the same page as far as 3 kids being a good number for us.

He spent several hours after that incident with a baggie of ice down his pants -

But despite the incident, good progress was made today on the floors - the really tough stuff of getting in the pantry area and under the oven was completed. We did discover 2 decent sized scratches today too. Justin was complaining but I told him (as I mentioned before we got the real wood floors) - I refuse to baby the heck out of them and get upset when they get scratched - just like our stainless steel kitchen table - or a new car - scratch it and get it over with (no, I didn't scratch the floor on purpose!)



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Lots of weather excitement today as Ike cleared a path through Ohio. Trees were bending over, flower pots and lawn chairs were flying, roofs were puking up shingles...it was quite something. Pretty much everyone around town lost power - except for our neighborhood. I had to tell Ella it could be a "twister" so that she'd stay inside. She vegged on the couch and watched The Wizard of Oz :)

School has been canceled because of all the power outages-

Mason will be thrilled!