Gustavugees

August 31, 2008

After a two week fun-filled vacation to Colorado, Six Flags Fiesta Texas and Schlitterbahn, immediately followed by the start of school, I was hoping to spend this Labor Day weekend catching up around the house. I should have known better given that it was hurricane season!

My wife has family down on the Texas coast near Beaumont and Port Arthur and we started receiving calls Thursday night from them looking for a place to stay. I’m calling them ‘Gustavugees’. The first group arrived Friday night and another group on Saturday. Right now we have an extra six people in the house and might get a seventh if my brother-in-law’s plant gets shut down.

So, rather than spending the weekend trying to catch up on things around here and try to get the kids in a routine for school, I am spending the weekend trying to stay on top of feeding and cleaning up after 11 people.

All-in-all, it isn’t too bad. Everyone is in good spirits. My 14yo nephew keeps my 10yo and 6yo sons busy. I haven’t hardly seen my 6yo niece and my 8yo daughter since they have been playing so well together. My wife and I have spent a fair amount of time with our 15mo grand-nephew. He is at that perfect age where he is really cute.

We do only have one bathroom but we’ve been through many holidays with more people here. We do have overflow given that my mother-in-law lives next door, another sister-in-law about two miles away and there are additional siblings in Bastrop with two houses.

The exodus around Hurrican Rita back in 2005 was much worse. It seems like everyone was pretty raw from the coverage around Katrina and were fearful of the results of Rita. Hopefully there won’t be any damage to their houses on the coast and everyone can get back home on Wednesday.

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