Warm Bed with a Side of Hotel Fire

So it's the night before Thanksgiving and I am busy being thankful (with my eyes closed) for the hotel that my in-laws paid for us to stay in so that we could spend a few days in Katy with them. It's a brand new hotel and the bed is so comfy and my kids are so tired that for the first time in a few months I find myself sleeping through the entire night. This is a moment of special lights and angels singing because sleep is a true gift and blessing for a tired mommy such as myself. At 5:30AM, however, all of the special lights turn into those flashing fire lights and the angels turn into orb like alarms screaching a melody that no mommy wants to hear, ever. Barely awake, Steve and I jump out of our warm bed and into action. We don't even think to turn on the lights so we are groping for coats and shoes in the dark. I grab Kalea and Steve throws Nathan's shoes on him and we take off down the hall and down the three flights of stairs with our new best pajama clad friends. At the second story, the smell of smoke hits us and in his panic, Nathan takes a tumble down the carpeted stairs. There are so many people that a pair of pajamaed legs breaks his fall and he is up and running in an instant. As we step out into the crip early morning air, the bite of the cold weather takes a delayed moment to hit us. I can feel Kalea trembling in my arms as we take the que from other families and run for the car. Fumbling in the cold morning air, it takes Steve a while to get it unlocked and started, but we were super grateful for the warm air that poured out of the vents. As we settled in, the horrific notion hit me that I left Kalea's beloved Mimi in the hotel to be cooked by the flames. As Kalea's shaking subsided, the fire trucks arrived, and Steve and Nathan giggled as the pajama clad Chief jumped out of the truck and into the hotel with his fully dressed companions. After almost an hour, we were able to head back into the hotel and back to bed. Kalea and I snuggled in and went back to sleep greatful that Mimi (and ok, I guess the hotel too) was ok while Steve and Nathan chatted excited about the morning's event. We never did find out exactly what had happened, but in the end we were all thankful that no one was injured or killed by the fire.

Nathan's funny sayings for the week:
At the Gem and Diamond exhibit at the Museum of Natural Science- "Mom, people can't wear these, they're just rocks."
On the way out of Walmart on a super cold day- "I don't need Germ X, the germs already froze off my hands."