The Chatter

This is my first post in “Blog World”, so I will give a brief introduction.  I am a full time working mom of 3, two very active boys ages 9, 7 and the long anticapated princess age 2.  Married 11years but have been together a total of 20, as my darling husband likes to point out, he has alot of patience.   I am also co-owner, along with hubbie, of a Taekwondo studio, he is also the instructor.

With so much going on, I thought it would be a good outlet for me to blog about issues that arise in my day to day activities. 

The current “issue” would be Ike, churning it’s way slowly west,  we are located in sunny South Florida and are watching this storm.  I am hoping it will stay south of us, but the reality is either way we have to prepare just in case it turns our way. The last thing you want to do is be out there trying to hang shutters while the wind is kicking up.

So yesterday after work I thought I would get a head start on getting some water, recently had in-laws visiting and they drank all my bottled water that I had in storage.  Went to Walmart and guess what, just a couple of the small 12 packs of water, so I picked up two. Not only that but it was so crowded you would have thought it was Black Friday. 

So I decided, no problem I’ll go to Super Target, just around the corner, I’ll stop to get gas while I’m at it.  Stopped to get gas and there’s a line!!! Forget gas, I’ll try later.  Drive over to Super Target, much calmer scene but same thing only a couple of the 12 packs left, picked up another two along with some other items.

Meanwhile, I have the 3 kids with me, two of which are continually asking “When are we getting ice cream”  Their elementary school had a promo going with Dairy Queen, class with the most visitors/customers that go to Dairy Queen get an ice cream party, so I told them we would go as long as they behave during my errands.

So now I’m heading to Dairy Queen, got in the long line with an antsy 2 year old while the boys hung out with some classmates they ran into.  Went to another gas station, long line…… finally found a gas station where there was just one car ahead of me.  So I enjoyed my Blizzard ice cream while waiting my turn.

Got home, exhausted, but at least I found gasoline and some water. 

Today more preparation, this is the first time we are threatened with a storm since we’ve owned the school, I have to remind hubbie to pick up plywood for the school and also I’m thinking we should pick up some of the mats and maybe put something down to block any water that may come in through the door.

For home preparation, we need gas for the generator, some more water and bring in all our outdoor furniture/ornaments.  The news says Sunday will be our “Action” day, the day we should put up shutters and prep our outdoor area.

I do not want to wish this storm on anyone and I wish it would just fall apart, but if it had to go somewhere, please not South Florida!!!

Oh and did I mention my dryer stopped drying……