Full Circle

Big post due to recent craziness, starting just before Christmas. That weekend, I checked into a hotel because it was snowing like crazy and I was afraid that I would not be able to get to work. I ended up in the hotel from Saturday morning to Monday morning. And on Saturday morning, while still at work, I got a call from my mom that my grandmother had fallen down the stairs. Mamaw Mary was in a wreck in the early 90s and has a lot of problems with her right leg. So, I was plenty worried that she was badly hurt. Luckily, she was only bruised and banged up. She didn't actually fall down the stairs so much as she slide down them on her rear end.

As it turned out, the reason she was upstairs to begin with was because she had been woken up by the smoke alarm in my bedroom going off and the room was full of smoke. She called my brother to come out and call the fire deportment. They ended up tearing a great big hole in the ceiling to find the hot spot and put it out.

The power was already out on the road due to the snowstorm, and Mamaw got an electrician to come out. It turned out that her breaker box and the cord leading into the house were messed up and needed replaced. I know Mamaw is terrified that the house would catch fire again. She had my mom unplug everything electric upstairs.

While all this was going on, I was at work. I got a phone call on Monday morning at 9:30 from my area supervisor, Dave. They wanted me to watch an AEP site in Huntington to prevent angry customers from following the trucks onto the lot. I was to work this site for a week from 10:00 in the morning to 10:00 at night. I would, once again be working on Christmas. If nothing else, it gave me plenty of time to finish my Christmas knitting. I finished Mommy's socks and Mamaw's mitts and cast on for a sweater.

I ended up missing the yearly Christmas Eve party at Mamaw's, but my parents, brother and sister-in-law and my nephew got up early on Christmas morning so I could open presents with them.

Things mostly went back to normal after that, except that Mamaw did not want me sleeping upstairs, so I have spent the last few weeks sleeping in her bed while she sleeps with my aunt Charlene. That was the status quo until yesterday, when it began to snow again. It is not a big snowstorm like before, it has just snowed pretty much steadily since yesterday morning and is supposed to continue until this weekend. So, I am back in a hotel until Thursday morning. Here's hoping nothing else happens while I am gone.