Restless weekend

No pics this time...we had a miserable weekend enduring Tropical Storm Ike. We had a lot of rain and strong wind at our house and finally lost power around 5PM on Saturday....Thank Goodness we have a lot of natural light in our house. We went around the corner to a friends house that lost power too and had pizza and the kids played while we all stared at each other...haha!! Finally Brooke was getting crabby so we went home and I managed to find the candles and we had our bath by candlelight. She went to bed with no problems, despite the fact that it was 80 degrees in the house. I put her to bed in a diaper and diaper cover since she is so good now at taking her diaper off. We cracked her window just a bit because the wind and rain was soaking the window sill and we did not want it to ruin the carpet or her furniture...Now on to us, we tried cracking our bedroom window but to much water was coming in so sleeping in there was not an option for me and my hot natured self...So I made me a palette on the floor in the living room and slept in front of the window where the breeze was blowing...it was actually nice and cool, but the floor was not so comfy and I found myself waking up every 30 min or so. Finally the power came on at 2AM and we shut all the windows and went and got in the bed....My allergies are so bad and my body is sooo sore...haha I feel every bit of 31 today. On the other hand I do feel lucky because there are a lot of people that lost everything and people in our city without power and they plan on having it restored by Thursday so I am lucky we went only 9 hours or so. It really shows me how dependant we are on the comforts of life....the power was out and we had no clue what to do with our selves...the kids were playing like nothing was going on. I hope everyone weathered the storm ok.