Sleeping well....

Greetings to all!!

Scott made it home safely on Thursday, March 6th at 7:00 p.m. then turned around and left Friday morning with all 4 boys for Michigan at 4:00 a.m. He left just before a HUGE snow storm hit. The Lord really kept His hand on them. They arrived just in time for their 10:00 a.m. meeting in Brighton. They enjoyed their meeting and the special guest, Josh Mayo. They then went on to our Brighton home to check on the house. Tony Clark had called Scott while he was in Florida and told him of a leak in the basement. Scott went to check it out and to do a couple of other things.

The boys had a great time at BCC Youth All-Nighter. They really loved seeing everyone again. Scott was in shock over the foyer at church. He tried to explain it to me, but I am not "seeing" it too well. Someone needs to send me a photo of the changes...hint, hint.

While they were in Michigan, I was suppose to be at a MMS Ladies Retreat. Well, let's say that our state of Ohio received the storm of the year. (that is what they are calling it) We were dumped on big time and the whole county closed everything!! It is too funny that the radio station lists every business closed, even the restaurants. They assign levels here and when it is a level 3 it is then illegal to drive on any road. If you do and are caught, you will be arrested! All of the counties around us were a level 3 and we were a level 2 (which is for emergency vehicles only basically). Our county sheriff refuses to call a level 3 due to past experiences with certain people, at least that is what he told one of the MMS ladies who knows him pretty well. When every county around you is a level 3, you get the hint. Needless to say, our retreat was canceled before any of us even began to pack. So, I was literally "snowed in" for the weekend. Due to this storm and me not going away, Scott decided early Saturday morning to come home and try to at least get home before it worsened even more. He left Brighton at 11:00 a.m. and arrived home around 7:00 p.m. He had to drive 30 miles per hour on the way home. It was pretty bad!! Our landlord had plowed our driveway 3 times in one day and it still was bad. Totally un-normal for this area. Our landlord called to see how her little family was doing and then told me it was our fault. :-) Normally they have flowers by now here. We ended up with about 2 feet of snow that came with freezing rain and high winds. We even had a thunder snow storm. That's right, we had thunder and lightening while it was snowing. Very strange.

Scott made it home and I had dinner ready for them and 2 special deserts. We ate and then he and the boys carried in the new bed. We had to let them warm up since they had traveled in the back of the truck during a snow blizzard. :-) My mother-in-law bought us a special prize, a new set of sheets to go on the new bed. They are cotton t-shirt material and very comfy. We set the bed up and everyone piled on it. It is very strange to "get up into bed" instead of falling down into bed. Thank you all so much for blessing us so much!! It doesn't feel like our bed yet, but it will soon.

Scott is back at the hangar today. Shaughn isn't feeling well so he did not go in. Matthew was pretty sick last Thursday and Shaughn is afraid he has it now. I hope not. It was nasty. It did only last about 12 hours tho. but still.

Yesterday all county churches were closed so one of the other MMS families called us to see if we wanted to do a home church for the day. We said sure, plus they were willing to come here. I made a big thing of homemade soup and baked some biscuits and we shared communion, worship and talked about our 40 day fast. I had my piano tuned last week so I played and Scott played guitar and we handed everyone else a percussion instrument. Quite the band. :-) Shaughn had his bass out too.

All county schools are closed today. It is still a level 1 which means hazardous roads and travel only if necessary. Icy conditions and snow is STILL coming down. Isn't that just great?? I know, it fabulous!! Yeah right, for the kids...they love sledding. The only problem with that is that I have 4 boys and only 1 was able to bring his sled when we moved. Dad kept promising the others that they could get it the "next" trip, but that hasn't happened. Jeremiah never had a sled to begin with. I tried to go out and get them a couple more the share about a week ago but only found sand toys and beach toys. GREAT! That won't work. I don't think they need summer toys just yet. So, yesterday we looked out and they were using a plastic tote...Scott died laughing. I told them to use the plastic from the new mattresses, but they had already threw it away. Too funny. At least I did find the rest of the snow pants and coats, now they can stay warm while rolling down the hill. :-)

Thank you all for your prayers and the Lord is Great and Faithful!!