aftermath

Who knew a hurricane could do so much damage this far from a coast!? Sunday afternoon we had wind gusts of 70+ mph and power was out everywhere. Ours threatened to go out many times, but it managed to come right back on every time (I made a hundred trips down to the basement to restart the dryer, though, since it automatically shut off every time the power switched off for a second, and didn't come back on when the power came back on, and I really wanted to get the laundry done!).

We did, however, lose our phone, cell phone, internet, and cable. So I've felt really out of it for two days, not able to communicate or get any news or anything. Monday R and I went to Panera to connect briefly, and today we went to the library. It finally came back Tuesday afternoon.

All of the schools around here have been closed for two days and most are closed today, too, since many are still without power. Our backyard looked like a tornado swept through it before we cleaned it up. The neighbor two doors down lost a tree in his front yard--it fell onto his car while he was in it, trying to move it into the garage!

All of this chaos hasn't changed much in our little one's life, though. She did ask once to watch Blue's Clues, and I had to tell her the TV was broken, but otherwise it's been life as usual around here. She "helped" me yesterday to rake and pick up some twigs. We did get a couple of extra videos out of the library yesterday.

Then Monday night she was acting very strangely, telling me, "I'm tired," which she never, ever says, and kind of moping around. She felt really warm to me, but the thermometer said her temp was normal. I gave her some tylenol before bed to be on the safe side. She woke up several times in the night, and needed some Advil early yesterday morning because she was burning up. She was fine most of yesterday, but last night she started it again, though not as badly. I gave her some Advil and she did fine all night. I don't know what's wrong. She doesn't have any other symptoms and today she seems fine.

Here's my sweet girl, who got her hair cut yesterday morning, right before this picture.