Hurricane Irene Weekend

So as most of you know we thought that Irene was going to be pretty bad.  After reading all the hype about this hurricane and because of our close location to the ocean we decided that it would be best to make a run for it. Since David and I live in Base housing right now are only big assets are our vehicles and with all the talk about the storm surges we figured we better get BOTH of our vehicles out of there. As with most big decision I have trouble deciding what to do. First we were going to stay and wait it out....then I was just going to drive home to SC with the baby and David was going to stay on the ship....then that changed to us packing our bags and heading to Richmond on Saturday morning 8-27-11.  But you see the problem is that I make things more complicated then they have to be  I keep thinking things over in my head and the negative juices and worries start flowing. While checking the weather it was forecasting heavy winds and rain on Saturday and I began to stress about what it would be like to drive with the baby by myself in all that mess.  So my good friend Molli and I decided that we would take the kids and head out Friday afternoon and our husbands, who had duty until Saturday a.m., would travel up on Saturday morning.  Well of course we should've just stuck with the original plan because we sat in traffic for 4 hours!! (Richmond is only an hour and a half away!)
Once we got settled into our hotel we just relaxed and stayed indoors away from the bad weather.  Saturday of course, only brought worse weather and ironically the hotel we stayed at lost power Saturday evening.
This little adventure though was the baby's first stay in a hotel.  He did really well.  The first night we shared a room with Molli and her to young kids and he slept through us talking and TV going.  On Saturday he even managed to get his two naps in during all the craziness.  David has always needed to be swaddled up in order to go to sleep but on this particular Saturday he discovered that he could roll on to his tummy while swaddled....not so good for us.  Of course I couldn't leave him swaddled up because if he rolled over he would have no way of getting back on his back.  So now our sweet boy sleeps without his swaddle blanket and the transition couldn't have gone more smoothly. He hasn't had any trouble going to sleep or napping! If anything he might do a little better.  Sometimes he wakes up and just plays with his hands and feet quietly in his crib or puts himself to sleep the same way.
Back to our little Hurricane adventure.  We traveled back to Norfolk on Monday to discover LESS damage there then in Richmond (weird huh??) so basically we wasted time, money, and gas for nothing. Oh well I guess that was just how it was suppose to be.  We are so blessed and thankful that we are all safe and that none of our personal property was damaged! God is Good :)