What to say, what to say

What is there to say?  My baby turns a week old today.  She is soooo cute and perfect and just everything I could ask for.  I would post pictures but I am someone else's house using their computer, meaning I don't know how to get them up and I don't want to mess up their stuff. 

As for the hurricane. . . stupid IKE.  I want to go home.  I want to be spoiled the way a new mom should be. . .at home in bed with my mom and Bo bringing me water and eating fun food that I don't have to cook or clean up.  Instead I'm at my sister-in-laws (Bridget) brother's home with my parents and cousin's family, and Bridget's dad.  

So on Thursday morning, after not even being home 24 hours, we packed up really quickly, with my parents in tow (they had come on Monday to help with the baby) and headed up to Sugarland.  We only grabbed clothes and diapers and important documents.  I didn't grab my wedding ring.  For some reason Bo didn't take his laptop.  I blame the forgetting on the fact that we had guests and we had JUST gotten home from the hospital.  Oh well, we have our kids and that's all that matters.

We got to Sugarland fine, with no traffic or anything.  On Friday night, the night of the storm, we lost power at about midnight.  We still haven't gotten it back.  We were with Bridget's Dad, and after a day with no air conditioning, we decided to head over to Clint's, Bridget's brother, because he had electricity, he lives in Katy.  People, please don't ever EVER take electricity for granted.  It was hard.  IT was hot, the bathrooms were dark and had no water because they ran off an electric pump.  All I can say is, thank goodness for food storage.  Don and Carla, Bridget's parents, have  a wonderful supply of food and snacks and water and everything.  The prophet knows what he's talking about!!!  I feel bad for all the people down here who don't have that.

It's crazy here.  There's no gas, no electricity, nothing.  People are lining up at the gas stations that do have gas, no joke.  We went to a grocery store yesterday that happened to be open, and you wouldn't believe how empty all the shelves were. All the produce was gone.  All the breads and lunch meats and well really everything was gone.  WOW.  

Bridget's aunt gave me tons of baby diapers as a baby gift yesterday, and it is wonderful.  We didn't have time to get any of that before evacuating.  I need things for breast feeding that none of the stores that were open had.  It's just so weird not being able to just run to Walmart or some store and get what you need.  There are really not that many places open because of the no electricity.   I feel like I'm in some other country.

As for me. . .well I want to go home.  I want my bed, my shower, my clothes, my baby's clothes, my food, my new couches and recliner that I was so looking forward to rocking my brand new baby in. I want my life.  I am so grateful to the generosity of everyone around me.  Bridget's family has been WONDERFUL.  Still, what am I going to do in the upcoming days/weeks?

Galveston is closed.  The bridge is COVERED in debris.  There are a couple dozen boats among other things on it.  There is no power, water, gas, anything on the island.  They haven't even mentioned when they will let us in.  The school sent an email out saying that UTMB doesn't expect power for 2 to 4 weeks and that school won't be open for a week.  I find it hard to believe that they would be open before the power comes on.  My guess is that they are just taking one week at a time, in hopes the power comes back earlier.

One of the news stations had a helicopter fly over Galveston, along the seawall, and we were able to see the tops of the apartments next to the ones that we live in.  Their roofs look fine, which is a big relief to us.  We live on the 3rd floor, so while we weren't worried about flooding, we were worried about losing the roof.  Hopefully all of our belonging are fine.  IF not, it's just material things, right???

We are talking about going to Washington for a couple of weeks.  We don't have family in TX, and feel bad staying at someone else's for as much as we have.  THe thought of using their hospitality for that long makes me upset.  I need some stability.  My child needs her checkups.  Which she won't get here what with no power and everything. Crazy crazy crazy

Evactuating with a Newborn

So it's Cass, that's right, I'm back! As mentioned in the previous 2 posts, I had my baby on Monday, and on Thursday morning we evacuated Galveston. Let me just say first that I have the most beautiful baby girl in the world. Bo and I are so blessed to have her sweet spirit join us. Labor went fine. It's amazing what an epidural can do! :) On Wednesday we came home from the hospital, only to find out that the storm had shifted and was heading our way. With that in mind, we packed up and headed out Thursday morning. That's right, I evacuated with a baby not even 3 days old.
We are here in Richmond, TX, which is right next to Sugarland. We thought of driving all the way to Temple, TX, but honestly, with a newborn AND my parents in town, the thought of driving at least 4 hours was just not cool. My sister-in-laws parents live here and their house is out of major harms way. We are worried the power will go out, but that's about it.
The storm is headed straight to Galveston, which is where we live. We are of course nervous about our apartment, but glad we have our children. Really that's all that matters. We are okay. I am of course not up to par, but count my blessings that I had Megan before the storm hit. If I hadn't had her, I'd be having her now, what with all the stress, at the house I'm staying in. So although I'm stressed about taking her out of the house, exposing her to all sorts of things, and not getting the rest that I am in big time need of, I am still glad that I had her when I did.
This blog is short because the storm is coming, and the power could go out at any moment here where we are.
Please keep us in your prayers. We have no idea what the future holds for us. Thanks for all your well wishes! Who knows when I'll be able to blog again, but when I do, I'll feel you in on all the details.

Ike

So Hurricane Ike has kind of killed our fun this week, and we've decided we need to evacuate. So we will get more pictures of Megan up as soon as we can, but now we're getting everything ready to leave. Fun, fun.

Megan Lee Beus

Megan was born at 9:20 pm on September 8th. She weighed 9 pounds, 3 ounces and has some seriously chubby cheeks. Cassidy and Megan are both healthy and doing fine. Cassidy made it all look really easy. I'm sure she'll want to add more details later, but for now here are some pictures. There will probably be plenty more to come.

No baby yet

So I think if I had just walked around, instead of taking it SUPER EASY on Wednesday night, I could have had her then. I was in some serious pain with pretty regular contractions. My problem was that Bo had two big tests in the next two days, and I didn't want him to miss them, considering he has been studying like crazy for them. So I layed down and took it way easy.
Yeah. Now here I am, ready to go, and nada!!! I'm ready. I have everything ready to go, the bags are packed, Bo has the week off, Carter is pumped to go stay at Jackie's, and no contractions! Or at least painful ones anyway.
Let me just say that when I went into my Dr.'s appt. 2 weeks ago, the Dr. said he "moved things around" for me when he was checking me. I was only 1 cent. then. Last appt., which was on Tuesday, he checked me again, said I was almost a 2, and then he did some wonderful painful jabbing and claimed he "stirred things up" for me again. I'm guessing he stripped my membranes and so forth but nothing is going on! DAH!
I've walked the mall and everything else, hiked the stairs a bunch, scrubbed my house, did jumping jacks (yes I actually did), and I'm not getting anywhere. Help friends! I'm sorry, but I don't think I can force myself to drink Castrol Oil. 4 days to go. She'd better not be late. The Dr. said he would induce me on the 14th if all else. Keep your fingers crossed that I don't have to wait that long.

Movies

So last week I was supposed to go to Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants with my cousin Jackie. We met at the mall (Bo had Carter) and walked over to the theater, only to find out that it wasn't showing anymore. We, of course, were big time disappointed until we happened to walk by a nail salon. I think it was meant to be. Jackie and I went in and got some pretty wonderful pedicures, and now I have pretty toes to get me through labor!! It was really fun and EXACTLY what I needed. Ahhhh.

This week, and last week, Bo has been studying like crazy for some tests he has. I have been pretty bored at night, so last minute I went and rented PS, I Love You, without reading what it was about. I knew it was a girl movie, and that was enough. Well friends, let me tell you, it's not exactly the best thing to watch when you are already super SUPER hormonal. I think I lost about 5 pounds in tears. No joke. I bawled the whole time. Really. Bo says I'm no longer allowed to watch anything close to that in the future.

It was a good movie though. Really it was. There was a naked butt scene, but other then that it wasn't too bad. The only thing that really really bugged me, besides the butt scene, was the main actress' headbands. She wore a lot of them and I just don't think she looked good in them. Funny thing to notice, I know. It definetly had some funny parts, so I would have tears running down my face and then just bust up laughing. For those who don't know what it's about, it's about a woman who's husband dies and her finding letters he's left for her. Very good, but I just was too into it and could just picture how I'd be with Bo gone. Not good for someone about to have a baby. haha. I sometimes cry in movies, I admit it, but I have never NEVER had to use a tissue before. Yeah, when the movie was done I had a pile of them. I think I used like 5. oh goodness. I think I am going to have to hold off on movies like that for awhile.

Bo--"At what age does reverse psychology stop working? 'Cause it's GREAT."