Wow

Just wow! I know today is supposed to be Wordless Wednesday but I just couldn’t be wordless after the craziness of last night. Last night was scary night weather wise and I am just thankful that we are all safe this morning. At about 9:00 last night Marty called from work and told me to get the kids out of bed and head over to the Opryland Hotel. As I was on the phone with Marty, a friend called and asked if we were going over to the hotel. I told her yes and she said that they were going to come with us. I put Prince in our closet, it was absolutely heartbreaking to leave him at home (he paid us back by peeing everywhere in our closet but we quickly forgave him). We were at the hotel for about 10 minutes and they come over the loud speaker telling everyone that a tornado warning had been issued for Davidson County, the first of many, and for everyone to head to a stairwell and from there to the underground tunnels. This was the exact reason we went to the Opryland Hotel. There is a city underground and the hotel could run off of generators if we lost power. We were in the tunnels for about 45 minutes; the kids had a blast and thought it was a lot of fun, the parents not so much. We were contemplating splitting a room with our friends for the night because the worst was yet to come but decided to go home and keep a close eye on the weather. We put the kids in our bed, it was so sweet seeing them snuggled up next to each other, and Marty and I settled in for the night on an air mattress on the floor in the living room. The news was saying that we had about an hour and a half before the next storm was to come through and it was supposed to be a big one. We went so far as to take the mirror off the wall in the bathroom in case we had to leave Prince again. A tornado warning was once again issued for Davidson County but watching the tracker it was going to go just north of us. That storm wasn’t so bad and the warning expired. Then comes tornado warning number 3, all in the span of about 4 hours. I was ready for the night to be over with. This storm was going to go just south of us. So thankfully we didn’t have to wake the kids up again and head to the hotel. Storm number 3 brought some pretty bad thunder and lightening. We turn the TV off at 2:30 and at 2:40 both the kids appear in the living room and join us on the air mattress. At about 3:00 it was pretty much over so we put the kids in their own beds and went to our own. Poor Andrew called twice and after checking on him both times he finally went to sleep. Marty and I had already decided that we were going to let the kids sleep until they woke up. Well, 8:30 comes (an hour and a half after Abby’s school had already started) and they were both still asleep. This is a huge thing because Abby never sleeps past 7:00, poor punky was exhausted. Needless to say I took her to school at 9:30.
Sometimes it really stinks being a grown up.