Day 291: Unscathed

As I mentioned in a post last week, the weather for Christmas was expected to be bad. That forecast turned out to be accurate. The wind howled and the rain poured. For a while it looked as though we might flood (Christmas is a bad day to find out that your sump pump isn’t working), but the rain stopped just in time. The trees all stayed up and the power stayed on. The Internet was out for the morning, but that’s not such a bad thing on Christmas. I asked my kids and husband that evening what their favorite gifts had been. Marshall loved his wearable axolotl blanket. Livia had enjoyed opening her Christmas stocking. My husband was happy with his new deck of cards. I’m not sure what my favorite present was, but looking back on that day, the thing I am most grateful for is that we made it through the storm unscathed and that Christmas was not marred by property damage, or worse.