Ok I am slightly irritated that I cannot get my pics to post right from my tablet, but aside from that I am pushing on. I was super tired wfter getting up with the kids at 7 and J let me sleep a little later than I should have and we ended up being late to my nephew's 4th birthday. ((Glad I was the only one early or even on time, other than grandparents of course, last year and this year the whole family made it...plus we were only 15-20 mins late))
The kids had a great time and even though Aiden pushed things to the limit, he was at least able to stay out of serious trouble. The McDonald's at King St. and Orange Ave has an awesome slide and play are for kids that are almost any age. The girls had a blast and I would definitely take them bwck there. I was surprised at how agile the girls were as well. They mostly stayed on the toddler slide, but I did see Emma climb up 3 levels/steps and come down a slide on her own....Other than a couple of incidents with Aiden and Isabella pouring chocolate milk all over her and Grsndma the kids had a blast. Twhans for having us Larry, Lisa D and Logan :).
Over the past week or so we have been through so much, Aiden has missed school for our "Flood drill" Wednesday night, Friday school was closed due to ice on the roads and Monday is a teacher work day. Of course tonight it snowed again and I am just hoping he goes back to school on Tuesday as scheduled at this point. Aiden is good academically, but socially he seems to be struggling. He does have friends, but he is fantastic at getting caught misbehaving and he is fairly impulsive. I will be going to a child study meeting on Thursday to get some suggestions on how to be a better parent so that my babies can prosper and live happy full lives. My sister also suggested EAP. I have never taken advantage of their services, but at this point I feel like I could do better by my kids and I am not too proud to see what kind of help is out there.
Our flood drill was due to the rising waters of the Roanoke River. As many of you know, the Roanoke River runs right through our backyard. We started watching the water rise through the evening on Wednesday and around 10 pm we decided to have Mom come over and evacuate the kids while J and I finished getting things out of the floor in the basement. Now, I have lived near the Roanoke River almost my whole life. J on the other hand is not as familiar with rising waters and became a little more frantic. After we had things cleaned up we noticed that the rain had let up, so we took a break and watched some "Moonshiners" on the DVR and has the season finale ended, I had a feeling if we didn't leave we wouldn't get to for awhile. So, we loaded ourselves into the car and truck and took off to meet back up with Mom and the kids. J didn't have any trouble, but I am very surprised my car made it through the puddle/washed out road that it did. From the way it felt the water was up to the bottom of my doors, but slow and steady got me through to the other side. ((It is prolly a good thing J was following me, I have seen him flood the truck going through a puddle ;) LoL))
Since Mom lives on the mountain by South Salem and the water was so high before I was finally willing to jump ship, we had to drive across town to the bridge on Eddy Ave to get up the mountain. I am not sure if the water crested the bridged, but that is the highest I have ever seen it and I wasn't able to get pictures of it until we were on the home the next day. I remember going to the bottom of the hill (Mill Ln and River Road in Salem) with my Daddy every time there was a major storm to check the water level and we would drive around to assess the damage around town. I was disappointed to not get to see that intersection this time around, but it was at least 2am before the kids got back to sleep. We decided to keep Aiden home from preschool for the day so he could go back on a full nights sleep. To our dismay and confusion the schools were closed the next day for non-existant snow, even though they were open the day before when our bus driver could not even get to our house due to flood waters and it was open on Thursday. SMH. I did get to see "our bridge" on the news the next night, and I have to say "WoW!" as many times as we went to check out the river I don't think the water has been that high since the big flood of 85.
I have more, but for now, here is a peek back into what has been going on with us... I will do my best to make time to fill y'all in on more as I have more time, but til then have a great one :)
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