hi..... thats all I got!

I know this wont count as a blog but just wanted everyone to know that yes, I still exist! There is just a new super busy version of me running around. Hope everyone has a great weekend! Happy Memorial Day weekend! Stay safe! Watch out for crazy drivers! And congratulations to all the seniors - especially my sister!

Okay, enough of my whining!

I don't know how all you working gals do it! My hats off to you all! I use to call myself a "night owl" but now I can't keep my eyes open once my head hits the pillow! I'm exhausted!  I've also realized that Saturdays are no longer mine, they belong to ALL the things I didn't get done through out the week. I'm sure this (hopefully) has something to do with me not being use to working and I will get adjusted to it, in time. Please, please tell me thats the case!
Okay, enough of my whining!

You know how I'm always laughing at CeAnna's airheadnes? It was so cute this morning. I was trying to back out of my driveway. Our car windows were so covered in dew, that I couldn't see out so I rolled down our side windows as I was complaining about it. CeAnna takes a look out her side and says "I can see good out mine!" She realized it was rolled down and we both busted out laughing!

Friday:

CeAnna was feeling really bad Thursday so I took her to work with me. During the day she got worse, Kevin came and got her. Looks like, she has strep-throat (our doctor don't test for it). Guess we will be taken care of baby girl this weekend! Please say a prayer for her.

Phil-n -it!

I've been keeping this sweet lady five days a week. It's a pretty great gig. She is in the early stages of Alzheimer - bless her heart. She has a  scene of humor  and sometime she comes up with things that makes us both laugh. The down side to it is, that she ask numerous times a day "what time is it?" and she wants me to take the dog out like every thirty minutes! The dog got so aggravated with me - trying to make her happy- by repeatedly trying to get it to go outside that it growled at me!

Just a few more days of school then my sweet babies will be home for the Summer! Yay! I hope we get to go visit like we did last year. It seemed that we were always going over to someones house or going doing fun activity's with the church girls. As Trenton would say "be sure and hit me up this Summer." I'm all about keeping the kid busy/entertained!

I just wanted to say a quick hi. Let everyone know I'm still here. Not technically here but...... you know what I'm saying! :) 

A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.

I wish I had some great big exciting something to tell you. We will just go with the old adage that, no news is good news. I'm still keeping the lady from the storm. I'm working 33 hours a week, not a lot going on in my world. CeAnna is having a hard time with the momma thats been at her beckon call, not being available as much.

Here are few pictures from the storm and other things:

Sister Sue's

This is the lady I keeps house

The Arab Jet-Pep... and it was fairly new!

Snapped  metal pole!

and again

I took the kids to play

and again

CeAnna got my camera. I have many pictures like this.

After Arab's Relay for Life. David and Trent

Last but not least, this is Mawmaw. For all that had seen her after her accident you can see she is doing much better. She's not 100% but I'm praying that one day she will be. It's just so good to see here up walking! I'm planning on her coming to revival. She said she would one of the days. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a few days that week. It all depends on how she feels.  So help me pray - that she will feel good, not be hindered and have a desire to come. 

Some kind of normalcy

 Just been missing all of you and missing my blogging time. We are all getting.... or I should say "trying to get" back to life as we knew it. Some kind of normalcy after the devastating tornado's. Kevin is working like a mad man. Putting meters back on to the sides of peoples houses and all kinds of other stuff. It crazy he worked 81 hours last week!

I volunteered myself to sit with a friend of mines grandmother, whose house got blown away by the storms. My volunteering has turned in to a job. That is okay because I like it. I enjoy the lady I keep every day. Hence the no time to blog. Just want you to know what was going on in Philpott land! love you all! Have a great week!

Tornado April 27 Arab

Oh goodness, where do I start... Wednesday my world was turned up side-down.  Let me start off by saying I have never had a fear of tornadoes. I don't go to shelters when the tornado warnings  go off but there was a feeling of danger in the air last Wednesday - or maybe it was just me. I just felt every time the warnings went off  a sense of fear. I think it was around 2:00 pm the warnings started again, that time I felt like I need to drive the kids and myself to the Arab storm shelter. First time I had ever been in my life! On the way there Kevin called and said he was on his way home. While I was on the phone with him I looked up and seen the tornado! First one I had ever seen in person. It was a monster! I'm sure it was several miles away but I couldn't tell at the time. We reached the shelter - all I could think was, Lord Please watch over Kevin! Some people went back up and came back down with pictures of it on their cellphones. They said "it's right on top of us." I got to see the pictures and it was clearly a tornado! I wish I could tell you I prayed this great prayer but all I could think was Lord watch over your children - Lord, please watch over Kevin. As soon as it came it went. We were in the parking lot leaving and I seen Kevin's Mr Electric van pull up. I said "thank you Lord" out loud I didn't care who heard me!
We  got back home, Brandi called and said "Sue Beal's house got hit"! Not knowing if she was in it or not we all jumped into the four-runner and took off to her house (only a few miles away)I think we were the first ones there! I stood in front of the house I had been in many times. My eyes filled with tears. There was no roof, few walls and a gaping hole through where her living room use to be! Luckily, Marty text me told me she was fine. Only Marty in Huntsville could know whats going on 20 miles away in Arab!!  I do call her my go to girl and with good reason!
The Arab I knew had changed. It was hard to get my barrings. Nothing looked familiar. We talked to Wayne and he gave the okay to start loading up anything that was not destroyed. Soon after Sue and her family members started showing up helping load what little we could retrieve. The tornado warnings kept going off. People kept running up saying more tornadoes were headed to or in Arab. I just made my mind up that Sister Sue had lost most of everything she owed and the Lord would have to protect us once again cause we were staying - grabbing pictures or anything we could.

I lay in bed that night and pictures of that afternoon kept running threw my mind. I could feel the wind filled with debris and insulation settling in my chest. I kept picturing this squirrel I had seen on a fence post that was so distraught that it couldn't move the whole time I was there. It had a crazy look in it's eyes clearly in shock. No tell what it had seen or better yet been threw. I could relate to that squirrel.

It's been four long days of mourning and sadness. I knew the the family that passed away in in Arab. It's hard to hear of a family of five dieing and not grieve for the remaining family members who have lost so much. Its sad to think of Sister Sue who treasured her daughter Cinda's possessions and now I'm sure many of them are gone. I can't help but think how she had kept Cinda's driving license in her kitchen window-seal. Sister Sue and Sandra would be the first one's at anyone's house that was in the same predicament.  

I'm sure Sue would appreciate any prayers you put up for her. Ending on a happy note we just had our power restored a few hours ago. Hence the post. I'm thankful the Lord spared so many including my family and Sister Sue!