Where O where did Tallyho go?

I think I'm back. I can tell I was not missed much but none the less... For those of you that don't know here's the update. There was this Hurricane that came through called Wilma. My family and I went to my brothers house on Sunday night. He lives further inland than I do. So there was me, Scout, Feret, Baby, my mom, my dad, my grandma, my brother, his wife, their son, her mom, her moms step mom, one cat and three dogs. It was interesting. There was almost a fight about the dogs. My brother asked that the dogs stay outside and my parents listened but when my sister-in-laws mom and grandma came they had the dogs in the house. My mom was pissed cause her dog is special too.
Anyway, mom made it clear that she was not happy as usual. I went to sleep around 12 o'clock and when I woke up at 6:30am there was no power. I stumbled out to the living room to find everyone hovering over a radio and the wind howling outside. The rest of the day is sort of a blur. I only remember that around 2pm we were thinking about heading home but we had to wait for my brother and dad to chop up a tree that was blocking the driveway.
On the way home we stopped by Ferets friend Tylers house. They had a tree on the car, on on the roof in the back and one over the fence on some power lines. Then we went to Scouts freind Timmys house. They lost their fence but they were ok. We made our way home and luckily had no damage. We unpacked the car then drove to mom and dads house. There was so much damage in their neighborhood that I almost cried. When we turned the corner to pull into their driveway I was so releived. only a slight damage to the carport and a gutter.
Anyway, we were without power for 7 days. I still do not have any food in the fridge. Power at work was not restored until yesterday (tuesday). I had to bring the baby with me to work all last week. My sitter had no power either.
Baby had his first b-day. no power to have a party and the only cake I could find were holloween cupcakes. I got food water and ice from the Army guys that came into town. The boys had no school for the whole week. We had to cancel the Pack meeting for Cub Scouts on Thursday. Which was unfortinate because we had scheduled McGruff the Robotic Police Dog as a guest speaker.
I think we are pretty much back to normal as of today. There are still homes with no power and tons of tree debris on the sides of every road. Its going to be a long clean up. We are planning Babys b-day party for this weekend, maybe Sunday. I think it would have been much worse if it was hot outside but we had this strange cold front that has lasted all week.
Well thats it for now...Ta Ta for now...