Flood - Day 2

Wednesday - Dec. 21 (normally I would be going to work, preparing for young womens, and this week is Talia's 12th bday and she joins young womens!)

I called work yesterday and the were very understanding and willingly canceled my classes so I had one less thing to worry about. Woke up early and headed to the house to prepare for the madness. And it was. The head guy "ryan" introduced us to "linda" my new best friend. They brought a pack out crew and basically told me they would be packing every square inch of the house up. 2 giant storage pods would be delivered within the hour and in each room, the dry and wet stuff would be separated. The dry would go in one pod and the wet in the other - to be gone thru to see what was fixable and what would be claimed on insurance. Our ins. had okayed a complete demolition of the bottom floor and 1/2 demo on the upper floor. I started boxing stuff and he said, you dont need to do that, they are doing all that, you come here and lets talk. And we did. We talked about the smells, the floors, the walls, the demo, the replacement, the time period, and everything. Basically they had it all under control and would consult us when they needed a decision made. We spent the whole day there at the house making decisions on this and that, and tossing lots of stuff. The entire upstairs was boxed by the end of the day. Even down to the empty tilex bottle......... dont ask.

At 4:45 the R.s. brought an amazing dinner to the nieghbors and fed both our families and then i remembers that me and the young women were suppose to ring the Salvation Army Bell at Smiths Grocery at 5pm. So off we went. It was so good to get out of that house and everything that ws going on and sing some carols and spread some joy. Later someone gave us a giftcard for Walmart to help us with our expenses. What a blessing! And the young women even came after to help us haul boxes down the stairs and into the storage pod. See you serve one and many serve you back, its awesome!

Well we split up the family and crashed at a few different houses that night. The insurance said we could get a hotel but we werent mentally prepared to make the decision during business hours and ended up wherever we could go. soooooo many people have offered us their homes, their food, their love and helpl and support and I am so amazed at the awesome community we have! With all the stress and for me, not being able to run or workout, we feel a lot of soreness, neck stiffness and a little bit of the flu settling in. We crashed pretty hard that night but Kev and I both woke at 3am unable to sleep and talking about what we were going to do about Christmas, Talia's bday, and other things like, WHAT COLOR CARPET were we going to put back in? I wanted to close my eyes so bad, go back to sleep and wake up and have it be 2 days back and this never happend.......but I wasnt so lucky........i did however remember to pray and thank my father in heaven that we were all safe and we didnt have to spend Christmas iin the hospital or anything horrible like that , and that we had insurance, and for the gospel in our lives to give us the understanding that its really all just STUFF.