What a strange and busy last two weeks. We are slowly moving back into our old routine from before the "Ice Storm of 2007." I worked down at the shop for about a week answering phones and getting invoices out. We figured that between the four guys, 2 teams of 2, they did 40 service calls in a week. That's a lot. Now we are just hoping that the overnight shipping charges that the parts house is going to charge us isn't going to break our bank. We didn't alter our prices to compensate for the overnight freight charges, so we are a little scared to see the bill from the parts house. Chris and the guys took a much needed day off today. It will make for a nice Christmas break for them.
We just found out last night that we finally have power restored out at the new house. That's 10 days that it has been out. We are definitely looking into getting a whole house generator installed. I can't imagine being without power for that amount of time with little ones in the house, so we need to figure something out.
Monday I took Madi to the doctor. She woke up with her eyes all matted, draining, puffy, and really glassy looking. She looked awful. We found out she had pink eye. We knew she had been exposed to it the week before but she went 4 days before she started showing symptoms. But luckily we got her started on eye drops right away and within two days she was looking much better. We finish the prescrip. today. That was the first time we have had to take her to the doctor for anything other than her well-baby checkups.
Last night Madi got to see Santa Claus at Kennedy and Coe, where Chris' dad works. It's pretty neat what they do. Santa comes in and they all get to sit on his lap and get their pics taken. Then they get a present. They do this every year for the kids or grandkids of their employees. Madi has been so excited to see Santa. She says "HO HO HO." And she is also singing Jingle Bells. It is too cute. I hope to get it on video and get it posted soon, it is just too cute. She was really shy when Santa came in and came right up to her. She is now burying her head and closing her eyes when she gets shy, it was hilarious. Even after Santa left she would not look up. Luckily we sat right across from where Santa sat to meet everyone so she was able to watch him from a distance and see all the other kids sitting on his lap. After about 15 minutes I asked her if she wanted to see Santa now and she knodded her head and got a big smile. She did an awesome job sitting on his lap. She had the cheesiest smile and had everyone rolling.
I probably won't post again until after Christmas, so Merry Christmas to everyone. We hope you have a wonderful day with your family and friends.
Love, Amy
Chris with his new snowblower. It took him an hour to blow all the snow from the driveway.
This picture doesn't do justice. If you are familiar with the old airport runway on East Crawford that's what this is. The limbs that have been picked up and dropped off so far are all the way across the runway and about a 1/4 mile long.
Madi insisted on wearing her sunglasses while she ate lunch.
Madi eating a cookie. This is right before she spilled a whole glass of red punch down the front of her shirt. What a mess.
Cowering from Santa.
Madi and Santa Claus! 
No comments:
Post a Comment