HOT & humid in Florida....

It looks like S Florida might be spared from the wrath of "Ike". I do not wish harm on anyone but I am glad that we are staying out of the cone of destruction! It was looking like we were cruising for a bruising! Thank the Lord that it has steered clear of us! I must admit that after dealing with SO many Hurricane's I can actually say that we made every attempt to be prepared. I mean how do you prepare to bunker down during a category 4 storm with four little one's? This would be our first experience in doing so. We got off lucky last year! Mom & I went to Costco to get all our Hurricane supplies. We now have PLENTY of water, canned goods & ton's of batteries. My niece Lauren advised me on what type of batteries most toys require. She says that they use a lot of double A's. Ha! It is better to be safe than sorry so we stocked up! Now we just wait & see if we need to close up the shutters. THANK YOU Mom for investing in the easy kind of Hurricane shutters! All we have to do is slide them out & lock themin place! If only it was all this easy! IF "Ike" continues to stay away & we are not affected we can at least say we were prepared! This Hurricane Season reminds me of the summer of 2005. We seemed to have a new storm every 10 days! No matter how often & "routine" it may seem for us Floridians it never gets old. It is always on our minds. SAFETY, SAFETY, SAFETY! So getting back to the preparing four small children part.. Dustyn & I brought a few ride on toys of theirs from home for them to share or should I say learn to "share". Grandma has a bunch of toy's already here so it should not be that bad. To make matters even worse all of the babies are sick. They all have a cold & yuckies in their nose's! I think that this will be a learning experience for all of us. I just hope & pray that we do not lose power. We are spoiled & LOVE our A/C! Remember, even though we have some beautiful beaches & we're known as the Sunshine State, Florida has a...

HOT & humid Hurricane Season....

rain rain go away!!!!

As I sit here typing It is pouring like you would not believe outside. You see this is Hurricane season for us Floridians & it seems like we are in for a different storm each week. We just had Tropical Storm Fay leave us & now Gustav is in our midst! Oh the trials & tribulations of living in SE Florida! Don't get me wrong, we NEED the rain but not all at once! Stop over Lake Okeechobee & give them the rain they need! Not over my house & make my backyard a lake!!! (I have included pictures of what our back yard looked like AFTER Fay) Now all we need is a boat! LOL! Our dirt road, yes we live in the sticks on a dirt road, is FLOODED! There is no place for the water to go when it downpours like this! We are now trapped inside this house we are slowly outgrowing! I peek outside to check the damage & notice that besides having a flooded yard I now need a good ladder. The storm brought down all kinds of pine needles which have clogged up our gutters so the water definitely has nowhere to go! Know anyone that makes baskets out of pine needles? I have plenty of them to give away! Some days I wish that we lived near civilization so I could take the babies outside after a good rain. So my yard would not get flooded & most importantly so I had a sidewalk that I could push my monster of a stroller down. But that is not to be. We are stuck inside for the duration. Let's hope that Gustav does not pose a threat & all we will have to do is watch the rain out the windows. Thank God we have Hurricane shutters! The easy kind that just slide out. Since Michael would get called in to work & I will most likely be here ALONE with the babe's if a storm were to come I am happy that we have them. I could never put up the "Old standard" like my mom had. Once the rain & wind leave then come the darn mosquitos. They are the WORST & they LOVE preying on the little one's. Poor Linz has been bitten one too many a time. She must be EXTRA sweet! LOL! It seems that I need to find some fun indoor activities for us to do. So as I sit here trapped inside our small house with the outside getting further flooded all I wish for is...

rain rain go away!!!!