'Tis The Season

As you can imagine the last 5 days have been really rough for Western WA. We lost our tree which was sad but so many others have lost their houses, cars, power and sadly lives (using BBQ's & generators in their houses to keep warm). Rooney's Uncle Dana was on day 5 today without power, but as he was emailing me telling me about it, he heard from Renae that it came back on! After hearing everyone else's horror stories the loss of our tree, without any further damage, is really nothing. We have been counting ourselves very lucky.

So beside the chaos kind of going on around us, it seems alot of Rooney's buddies, and himself, have been sick. I can't imagine what it must have been like for some of those people not having power and then having a sick baby on top of it. Again I am counting myself fortunate. Due to this we really haven't done much this week and have pretty much stuck to the house. I had to break out some toys for Rooney that I was holding onto. They weren't Christmas gifts but I thought I would just wait to break it out until we had a bigger place. Guess what? I found room right in the middle of the living room. Rooney was kept busy for a little while. He found the box it came in interesting too!

Mike, Rooney and I will be out today house hunting. I have a list of 5 good candidates. Hopefully we'll find our future home today. We are looking in a blackout area though. I'm hoping that Dana's good fortune of getting his power back on today means that the houses we're looking at also got their power back on.

I don't want to seem greedy with good fortune though. I think I'll pack a flashlight.