Come on Irene -

Yes the big storm of the century came right by us my friends. Of course we were very lucky to not get hit directly and we experienced no flooding or power loss ourselves. We left the power outages to poor pregnant Deb of course. Chrissy our friend from the city came out for the event as her hood was evacuated from downtown Manhattan where we used to live. After all the excitement the boys were getting quite nervous so we went to the store and bough flashlights and supplies - while we were there we also bought a "storm tent" for them to sleep in downstairs to keep them safe during all the excitement. You could not escape it that week and all the chatter was making them nervous. Luckily we only lost a little sleep, some branches on the trees out back and thousands of batteries that were used up needlessly playing with their cool flashlights. Oh and two lifetimes of power on Chrissy's iPad for the boys playing Angry Birds for hours (it was like instinctual I tell you). Afterwards we drove around and did not actually realize how bad it had been so close to our home. We feel very fortunate and although the boys are a little sensitive about weather now it was another exciting adventure....Oh and the tent is still up in the living room a month later they are obsessed and we can not face ourselves to take it down. XOXO