A forever family is born!
Howwonderful!
@mas1581 such wonderful news. I am adopted and my parents were the best. I never felt the need to search for anything because I had the love of a huge Italian family. God bless you for opening your heart and arms. ❤️
Isn’t it a relief when finally you can see light at the end of the tunnel? I’m so happy for you and your family and those fortunate boys. It must be a difficult journey for them. I pray for their wellness and wholeness and forgiving hearts for all they have gone through, and loving, healing blessings and peace for all of you. Family is everything! ❤️
@mas1581. As long as the file isn't too large (under 30k), it should just post by clicking choose file and clicking on the photo. I think jpg usually works. If that doesn't work, then send it to me and I will post it. Can't wait to see them!
Dear @jeanne-mayell, @triciact, @lovendures, @lowtide, @deetoo, @polarberry, @moonbeam, @ghandigirl, @jsr78, @journeywithme2, and everyone- thank you all for the love and concern you have shown me, and for the prayers for the safety and warmth of my family. This community is also a family, and i am so glad to be in it with all of you.
We are all ok, and the power is on! On the one night that i had to leave the cats by themselves, the power came back on in the house a few hours after i left. When i came back the next morning to check on them, it was a miraculous 72 degrees in there! Meanwhile, the house we went to stay with friends at lost power as soon as we settled in that night, lol. So the next night, they stayed with us- and while they were here, of course the power went out again. Maddening.
I didn't want to leave my cats alone in a cold house, as i am not Ted Cruz, but my Mother was losing feeling in her toes. When i pulled back all of the blankets and multiple socks, i could see her toes were purple. I had to get her out of there. Even the plants i had brought in were starting to freeze- in the house! It felt like it was just going to get colder and colder, until we all just popsicled out.
But now it is sunny and warm, and even the one feral cat that i thought must have surely frozen to death, is on the front porch eating some tuna.
peace and love to you all
ps- congratulations @mas1581 for you and your family! and @coyote so glad to hear you are doing well- can't wait until you are back on the forum!
Sent them via Facebook messenger. Apparently my phone takes pictures that are huge and too big for even email if you send 2.
What great news Unk!
I am so happy you were looking out for your mom and saw the problem before it was to late, Really happy you have power again.
@unk-p Glad to hear you and yours are ok. I'm at my apartment, I have power, internet, and water. Just waiting for the boil notice to be over for it to be normalish.
@jsr78 yay! so glad that you made it! I hope that some day when the pandemic is over that we can meet each other, and hang out.
@deetoo I stayed at my cousin's house they never lost power and internet but they lost water.
They still don't have water because a pipe busted above a bathroom. I think they never lost power because that area has a hospital so they probably didn't switch off that grid.
Thanks for asking.
I think tonight will be her first night in 8 nights without someone staying with her for shelter. She has been so blessed to have had water and power through out this time. She is across the street from a small surgical center and Urgent care and 2 blocks or so from a small hospital so I think that is why she had power as they seem to share her power grid.
Today she went on her first food run in in over a week. She still has some left, but her stock pile is getting low. She could not leave until mid-day because the roads were iced over from a below freezing night.
It wasn't pretty. She didn't expect it to be, but it brought back all the trauma from at the beginning of the pandemic when the stores were out of so much. She is very empathic and she knew it would be a challenge to shop through the "collective" stress and I could tell it shook her up a bit.
Her food victories:
-1 bag of Kale
-1 bag of arugula
-1 bag of cut up butternut squash.
That was all the fresh produce she could find, the rest of the produce area was empty. She she took one of each left the last bag of kale and arugula for someone else. No fruit or even an onion tone found.
She also scored oat milk (no dairy at all) and some frozen veggies.
The only meat protein she found was a frozen bag of shrimp and a carton of eggs . Who knows if the store had any other meats to begin with.
She also scored some tomato sauce, a can of tomatos and a little pasta.
She is beyond grateful by how fortunate she has been and at the same time is totally exhausted from the mental need to ration all basic nessisities (water, power and food) and the emotion upheaval and stress.
She is the only person she knows from the staff of her school who had both water and power the entire time.
It is unclear if her school will be open on Monday yet . The districts near her are all doing different things. Some will not open at all next week, some open Monday others mid-week.
She knows when her students do return, there will be a lot of traumatized children in need of healing, yet again. The need for healing has been non-stop for over a year now.
@lovendures sounds like she is doing good, and got some good groceries, too. Those streets in Austin can be crazy steep. When they do ice over, it is hard to even walk around, much less drive.
@unk-p, I am so happy to hear from you! Thank you for the anecdotes about your cats. When the family is ok AND the furry babies have survived, all is well ❤️
Is everything back on or water still out?
@lovendures you must be so worried. It is hard to believe that a rich and civilized country goes through an ordeal like this...
Strength to all of you. ❤️
Prayers for Tiger Woods. Roll over accident in the hills of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. Jaws f Life used. In surgery. Leg injuries but unknown what other injuries might have occurred.