Panic!

Tuesday night we had a terrible storm come through and it knocked out the power. I got up yesterday and started resetting all the clocks, etc... I thought everything had been taken care of until last night when we got home from work and we went to check the answering machine, we saw that it flashing Cl. I panicked! These days our answering machine is precious in more than one way! Before Chris deployed, he decided to call the house one evening when he knew we were all at work. He left an awesome message that we could replay over and over again while he was deployed. He started out by saying that he was leaving this message so we could access it anytime we missed him or just wanted to hear his voice. He addressed each of us and left us a special message. In closing he said "love you guys...keep smilin!" I was so afraid that we had lost our special message. Joey started messing with it and all it needed was resetting. THANK GOODNESS! It is SO nice to be able to hear Chris' voice. It was so thoughtful of him to leave the message before he deployed...it is worth a million bucks to us!