Not your normal day...

Today started out to be a normal day.

Joe headed back to school...after a six week break.

The kids were playing as usual, and I was cleaning and feeding the babe.

Joe text me and said there was a tornado warning, and to figure out where it was.

Lovely..

So as I always do I turned on the weather channel to figure out just where this bad boy was.

Yep, sure enough right down town (as always).

So no worry. 

I laid the baby down and went back down stairs to watch the news.

The weather people were freaking out at how fast the warnings were moving along from county to county.

So I kept watching...in the mean time my mom started texting me asking if it was headed our way.

It usually does, but we live far enough out that the storm always dies before it reaches us.

This time it didn't seem to be dying down.

The weather man kept redrawing the warning zone every couple of minutes.

He kept drawing it closer and closer to where we live, and I kept thinking its not going to reach us.

I told the kids to get some pillows and come play in the downstairs closet...thinking they would think it would be fun.

Miss j. could tell something was up and didn't really want to play....of course.

I still wasn't to worried until I looked at the TV and our whole neighborhood was in bright red, and then the TV went to the tornado warning signal.

I really didn't want to wake the baby, but thought I better be safe then sorry.

I went and grabbed the babe and we all hung out it the closet for about 5 mins.

I checked the TV again and it seemed that the worst had pasted.

I really wasn't to frightened (this being the sixth warning since we have lived here) but it was the first time I had actually made the kids take shelter.

We lost two huge trees in the backyard. 

And who knows they may have come through one of the many windows on the back side of the house, so I am glad we took shelter.

Miss j. has talked about it constantly today asking why we didn't see the tornado and what happens.

I told her it was good that we didn't see it or feel it and what can happen to people and their houses.

She asked many times if it was safe to go upstairs.

When Joe got home she kept telling him about going in the closet...it seemed fun now.

To say the least it was not your normal day.

But in the end it reminded me just how precious my family is to me and that it can all be gone in a second!