Great Whiteout of 2011

I do not have much time to blog right now.  There is so much going on, but I wanted to just copy/past an email I sent to one of my dear friends, summing up what is going on. As soon as "the dust settles" I will definitely blog some more of my thoughts.

Here is the email:

I will think about next week, next week. You wouldn’t believe my life right now. Haiti was a very interesting experience. Read about my thoughts at Haiti.schweitzerumc.org. I have more thoughts and lots of pictures, I will share asap.


While I was gone, Justin decided to tear up the floor in the kitchen and entry way (hardwood and tile) because we need new tile. Then he also tore up the carpet and padding in the basement. We plan to refinish the concrete. He had to use a sander to get up the glue that was sticking the padding to the concrete. He took every precaution he could to keep the dust downstairs, but it failed miserably. There was dust all over our house. Like, so bad we have to wash every piece of clothing, and every towel/blanket and everything. We also had to take all our possessions out of our house and clean them off. We still cant turn on our heater because there is dust in the ducts, so we need them professionally cleaned. We slept at home last night, finally, because I cant stand to be away from home any more, but had to use space heaters and the house looks like a tornado went through…seriously. Anyway, I cant properly describe the mess in the limited time I have right now, but needless to say, I am extremely stressed. We are dubbing it THE GREAT WHITEOUT OF 2011.

Because we are extremely blessed people, we have not had to tackle this problem alone.  Several of our friends showed up to help us clean on Saturday.  There is no way we could be anywhere close to where we are without the amazing, selfless, hard-working people in our lives that gave up their own agendas on Saturday to help us make our home more liveable.

I was already stressed because I knew I was coming back to HUGE messes at work, I was not expecting my home to follow suit. I am thankful for all I have, and definitely have it better than those folks in Haiti, I am just really having a hard time not feeling sorry for myself. Sounds so selfish, especially in light of all the suffering I witnessed last week, I know. I am having a hard time reconciling it in my head.

More Later -