On Sunday, August 26 we decided to take a trip to Home Depot to get a few things Eric needed. We got there, and the place was packed! We walked in and see tons of people running around frantically with their flatbeds loading up cases upon cases of water, and generators and gas cans....I looked at Eric and said uhhh is there a hurricane coming!? Sure enough, Isaac was on his way and headed straight for us! We went home and started watching the news, and found out they are not enforcing mandatory evacutaions, but to just be "prepared." Now remember yall, we are NOT from here, and we have never had to go through a hurricane before- so when you say prepared, what the hek do you mean!?! We started bringing all of our outside things inside and making sure anything that might blow away wouldn't. One of my cake girls was texting me checking in making sure we had a plan in place just in case- seriously how sweet is that!? She knew we wouldn't know what the hek to do so she made sure to check on us-LOVE you Eva!!! Well a few hours later we found out that St. Charles Parish was under mandatory evacuation. Now we don't live in St. Charles, but that is the Parish where the Nuclear Plant where E is working is located. E's amazing boss called and told us that everyone should just take the week off and take a little vacation and plan to be back at work next week- AWESOME!!! Commence: Hurrication 2012! We didn't waste any time, and we packed up our important stuff and hit the road north toward West Virginia. It was a nice little unexpected vacation, and nice for E to be able to have a relaxing week before crazy outage hours start. All in all we made out VERY well with Isaac. I am not sure how long we lost power, but I reallly don't think it was long at all! We had friends that were without power all week. We had a ton of tree limbs in the yard, a fence leaning, and one lonesome shingle off the roof, but that is pretty much it. We got lucky, because our neighbors on both sides had much more damage-huge trees down, tree fallen on a brand new cadillac, block walls crushed by trees, etc. It was crazy, and I am glad we didn't have much! That was the event of the month for us haha.
E's parents came to visit a couple weeks later and it was so fun! We enjoyed spending time with them and showing them around. We took them to Bourbon St., and on a swamp tour. I think they really enjoyed their time here!!
The other big happening in September was my decision to start my Scentsy business! My friend Monica has been talking to me about it for a couple of years, but I never did it. As I was sitting here thinking one day I decided maybe this would be a good opportunity for me. With us moving so often for E's work, it has been difficult finding anyone to hire me for only a year or so. I decided to give Scentsy a try-this would be a company that I could not only use my degree in business to try to develop my own business, but that I could also take on the road with me and continue wherever we may move to- sounds like a great opportunity!! It has been less than a month, and I already absolutely LOVE it. I love Scentsy products. I love that I get to work from home. I love the marketing aspect of it. I love the people I have already met through it. I love the company and all of the resources, opportuinites and support they provide. I just love it!! go check out my websie! https://kelseymoody.scentsy.us/Scentsy/Home
Well that's about it for the past several weeks. E will be starting night shift soon, which has its pros and cons. By mid October he will be in full outage mode working 7 days a week 12-13 hour days-poor guy! It will be a rough couple of months, but I am hoping it will fly by!
