Storm

All day yesterday we were subjected to hard rain and strong winds....Ty said he heard on the radio that the winds got up to 90km an hour! It was crazy, so the kids and I stayed home all day. Poor Ty had to work in it, and he said that the paper they were trying to lay down for the roof kept blowing away. He was on his way home, when he decieded to stop at his cousin's house for a minute to say hi. He ended up having supper there, when the power went out. That was in Ladysmith, 2o minutes from here. The power went out on me and the kids around the same time.....they were upstairs watching a DVD and I was making supper. It went out and all I heard was death curdling screams and crying coming from upstairs. They were really scared, so I had to calm kids down and find a flashlight at the same time. We lit a whole bunch of candles after going to call Ty at a pay phone....our phone is an internet one, so we need power to use it. On the drive to the pay phone, I had to avoid lots of fallen branches that were all over the road. Ty got home as I was giving the kids sandwiches for supper....not much else you can make with no electricity. All in all, we ended up without power for about 3 hours....we were lucky! I heard on the radio that there was 190,000 people in the Lower Mainland and the Island without power last night, and now it's down to 90,000. But there is supposed to be another storm today and tomorrow, so it might happen again! I better stock up with bread and peanut butter! lol

Working girl

So last week's huge dump of snow and supposed "Snow storm" left Ty without work for most of the week. He worked Monday, and then was off Tuesday. He figured he would be off for the rest of the week, so we were talking about what to do to make up the money lost. He finally phoned his boss and asked if there was any painting to be done, as the have a painting department as well as framing. Dean was happy to hear I was available, and said that there was work if I wanted it. So Wednesday morning he picked me up and we headed to Ladysmith, about 20 minutes south. The weather was not the nicest, but being from Alberta I've seen much worse. That day was the worst one we had, and it snowed quite a bit. I worked the next two days as well, while Ty was home being Mr. Mom to all 4 kids. He had an easy time, since school was closed 2 out of 3 of the days, so he didn't have to be taxi very much. He did a good job with the kids, but it took me all weekend to make the house look like it would if I had been home all week! lol It's Thursday now, and the snow is melting fast! Probably aided by the beautiful weather we had yesterday....it was 10 above! Anyway, so I am now a casual worker for Dueck, and whenever the weather is too bad for Ty to work, I will be. I wouldn't mind working a bit more, but it's kinda hard to find a babysitter that is willing to pick up and drop off 4 kids! I'll most likely wait until September when Kiara is in preschool a couple days a week and then work those days. Well, look at the time! I need to get Austin's lunch ready and get him to preschool! Bye for now.