THANKFULL!!!!

For AMAZING neighbors!!! And here is why....

Gene is in Switzerland for 3 weeks doing training with his new company. I was doing great as a "single Mom" until Sunday.....

When we were unloading from the van after getting home from church the wind about knocked us over just trying to get to our front door. Then for the next 4 hours we had sustained wind gusts that were between 55 and 85 miles an hour. (This never happened in N.C.??) Things were flying by our house windows that should never have been able to get off the ground.

My neighbor Tom knocks on our door about 2 hours into the wind storm and tells me that one whole side of our van windows were shattered. Then he went home (he didn't know Gene was gone).

So I frantically put Austin in charge of the kids and went outside to try to sweep up all the glass, vaccuum out the van, tape the window with plastic etc..etc...because its starting to RAIN!! And the van is not in the garage because we STILL have boxes galore in there from our move.

Within minutes of me attempting to accomplish those tasks...ALL of the men that live in our culdesac with a few of their sons came in the wind and the rain to help me.... WITH their help it took an hour and a half because there was just so much glass everywhere....especially inside the van. I can't IMAGINE how long it would have taken had I done it alone. These guys even moved, AND stacked our boxes so I could squeeze our van in the garage.

And just when I wondered how I could ever repay them....their power went out....and mine didn't....now there are big orange electrical cords strewn across our lawns and plugged into my outside electrical outlets so they can keep their fridges cool, make their coffee, and microwave their food!

SOOOOOO GRATEFUL for WONDERFUL Neighbors!!!!