A lot of things to be thankful for this Christmas..

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After Katrina.. I cannot even explain to you the emotions and feelings that run through you.. It's like something you just can't really ever explain, but yet something you will never forget...

I'll never forget how I felt sitting in that hallway.. Listening to the wind howling outside.. What we heard sounded like what everyone has said a tornado sounds like.. trains lots of them... It shook the house and frankly.. It shook all of us as well. We sat there, with pillows to cover our heads with, my back against our bedroom door, my mother in law sitting in a chair.. my holding on to David just in case something would have come along and ripped us apart... Then I heard it.. Crash.. It fell behind me.. I closed my eyes, held my pillow over my head and cried.. I don't think I've ever been so scared..After the noise of hearing it fall behind me we heard water pouring into our bedroom.. Whatever had fallen had broken our window, and manged to cause water to come pouring out of the middle of our cieling fan, and our vent.. It poured down upon our bed.. Just ruined everything we had worked hard on in the past few months with re-painting our room and getting it just the way we had wanted it... At that point we couldn't see what had fallen on our house.. We didn't feel safe in the hallway anymore, because we didn't know what was already up there, and it was awfuly close to the hallway, so we didn't know if there was any damnage there.. We moved into the living room.. I grabbed a couch cushion instead of the bed pillow I was using before.. I cried and cried.. wishing it to be over soon.. You could still hear the wind battering everything in sight.. When it started to die down David opened the door a crack and tried to see what fell on our roof.. All we could see was what looked to be a big branch, he closed the door and came back to the floor and sat next to me.. I was so much more comfortable in his arms and hearing his voice than I have ever before.. He was amazing throughout it all..
When the wind was basically gone David went outside and had come back in with the news.. it wasn't just a big branch.. it was the whole top of one of the pine trees that lived in the front yard.. We were the only house on the street that had a tree hit their house the way ours did... Although a few streets over, people had gotten it worse because they had more trees around their house than we did.. When you walked out of the house.. It was like a bomb had gone off... trees in the road.. lines down.. It had caused such a mess.. You wondered would things ever be back to normal...
Well, I can't believe it's already been about 5 months now.. We are moved, and all settled up here where we don't have to worry about hurricanes as much, or tornados.. I feel safe here and much more happy...
I'm thankful for all of the support and prayers that came from our friends and family! Thank you guys for writing words of incouragement in our journal while we were in TX.... It was such an uplift... and of course.. I'm thankful for David.. He was truely my rock during the storm.., and after.. I think the aftermath of the storm was almost if not worse than the storm itself.. I truely love him with all my heart!
I'm thankful that we are safely moved back up North.. and that we are happy!

I want to wish everyone a safe and very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year..


~Lisa