Devestation...

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Saturday night our area was blasted with tornados.  Our home we live in now is safe and we weathered the storm.  When we awoke on Sunday morning though, we were not so lucky to say the same about my husband's family farm.  We lived in this home from for nearly 2 years, in fact we were the last to officially live in it.  We are praising God that no one was there, because anyone would have been dead. 

Yesterday, the family spent the day trying to salvage anything and sadly very few things were left to be salvaged at all.  We found a few photos and letters from Rob's grandmother, some of her china and those thing seem to make the search worth it.  After awhile we just began making piles of twisted scrap metal to take to scrap and wood that could be burnt. 

Brandon and Bethany came out to help us.  We were all struck with where do we even begin.  I can't imagine being a family that actually lived in a home that this happened to.  To have your current life scattered for as far as the eye can see.  The things we lost were so insignicant to the lives that were lost!

For my mother-in-law, I imagine she spent the night crying and beginning another mourning process over Jack. This was his childhood home.  For Rob, he lost a childhood dream.  His 64 1/2 Mustang was in the garage out there that is now a cement slab.  He and Jack bought the car when he was 15 with dreams of restoring her. They never got around to it.  For four years Rob and I have discussed and really thought about what to do with the car.  It's hard to let go of a dream. It's not the car, it's the plans, it's his dad.  The car now sits in the field. They are going to try to get her today. 

Through it all, all the destruction, we found 4 baby possom's scattered through the yard and field. We know there are more but we can't find them, we only here them.  When I heard the first one, the sound was very strange and all I could think is that it was someone's dog, so we started looking.  I am calling Nature's Nursery to see if they can take them.

This morning though our family is thanking God that we are all safe.