Let me tell you just how interesting my break was:
For weeks I had been looking forward to Christmas break! I had been wishing it would could get here faster, and then it finally arrived. My car was packed, I was going to Hamilton, and all I had to do was get Gracie from the house and head north. We got to leave a little early from work so I actually got to H-town before dark, which was nice, and I even had time to unpack my car before the sun went down. I visited with Mom and Dad for a while then we all decided to go to bed. I went back down stairs to turn the TV off and I was just about to go upstairs to my bedroom when Mom’s cell phone rang. I immediately thought “who would be calling mom at 9:30 at night”? Well it was my alarm company!! I was upstairs brushing my teeth when they called my phone and didn’t hear it ring but thankfully I heard Mom’s. The lady on the phone let me know that my alarm was going off at my house and wanted to know if the police need to be dispatched. I quickly let her know they did need to go check since I was a hour and a half away. I immediately put some jeans back on and headed to the car. Mom decided she needed to do to, so off we went to Tuscaloosa at 9:30pm on Christmas Eve’s Eve. (On a side note: we had both take Benadryl about 10 minutes before this call came in…making this drive VERY interesting)
Before leaving H-town, my friend Julie called. She is the second person that gets a call if I don’t answer my cell phone. She asked me what was going on and if she needed to head to my house. After going back and forth on what to do, I asked her to meet the police at my house. Finally around Guin we found out that the robbers never made it in the house! They kicked the door in, the chain I installed back in February held, and the alarm went off! So I assume the robbers got scared and ran off. Luckily by the time we got to Tuscaloosa, we knew pretty much all the details to what had happened, my friend Julie had given the police all the info they needed to fill out a report (and went home), and we had a office waiting on us at the house.
After letting the officer check the inside of the house, Mom and I stayed there that night and the next morning head out for supplies. I ended up installing 2 more chains and screwed the door shut in several places! No one was getting in and I felt good about going back to H-town until Dad could come down to install a new door (which happened this past weekend).
SO THANK YOU FOR ALARM SYSTEMS THAT WORK!!
Nevertheless, my story doesn’t end there! Once we got back home, Mom and I started cooking for Christmas lunch the next day. Then we got ready for our Christmas tradition of opening gifts on Christmas Eve. We normally eat shrimp, salad and potatoes, then clean up and open gifts. This part of the evening went as planned. Everyone got good gifts! We got to enjoy Curt opening his gift as best a 4 month old can and then we play around with our new things till bed time. However, I was thrown a curve ball. As soon as we got done opening gifts, my stomach started to hurt and it didn’t stop hurting. Around 2:30am I came to the realization that I had the stomach virus! For the entire day on Christmas, I laid in the bed feeling like I had been hit by a mac truck! I was hurting……BAD. Luckily by the next day, I was feeling better but being very cautious about what I ate.
By Sunday afternoon I was hoping that I would be the only person that would have to endure the wrath of the stomach virus but we weren’t so lucky. Sunday night, little Curt started throwing up. Lee and Carrie Beth said he never acted like he felt bad, but he did throw up several times that night. Then on Tuesday BOTH Lee and Carrie Beth got it! I gave it to Curt and he passed it on to both his parents but thankfully it stopped there. My parents never got it but they did catch colds, so needless to say it was a very interesting Christmas break for ALL! Atleast the second half of my break was much better and I got a lot accomplished around the my house (Thanks Mom and Dad)!!
