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So you slept through Hurricane Irma.....Cool Story 

(insert eye roll)

Well guess who didn't sleep through it.... THIS GIRL RIGHT HERE 

because of a baby dinosaur that is scared of everything in this entire world Arghhhhhh!!!

So when the wind started to pick up around 1 am that is when the crying began. Then cue the thunder and lightening and it was downhill from there. Well when you are in a house with 5 other adults, 3 other dogs, and a baby you don't really wanna be the JERK with the barking dog that wakes everybody else up who was so peacefully sleeping. So after 30 minutes of whining and frantically barking I thought okay let's treat this like a tornado warning and go into the tiny bathroom. So I grabbed my pillow, blanket, phone and flashlight and we camped out. I turned music on as loud as I could get it in hopes that he would calm down and we could go to sleep...... but boy oh boy was I wrong. 

By the way I had given him one benadryl around midnight and we had a make shift "thunder shirt"..... desperate times call for desperate measures!!! But guess what NOTHING worked!!! I didn't realize I could give him more than one benadryl until hours later but for anyone who knows Mr. Huckleberry Finn let's be real a whole box wouldn't have helped! 

So I get my blanket laid out and my pillow in a good spot we have some good music playing no lights so it is nice and dark...I mean it was the perfect place to sleep other than the fact that I was laying by a toilet on hard tile in a TINY bathroom....but I kept telling myself I am a good Dog Mama taking care of my baby! I held him, I kissed him, I sang to him, I wrapped him tightly in the blanket, I tried to console him.... I mean I did everything I could possibly do except kill him. After about 4 1/2 hours  of him spinning in circles, laying down, getting up, in my lap, out of my lap, whining, and barking, I wanted to pull my hair out and that's when I realized I really wasn't trying to be a good Dog Mama I just really didn't want to wake up a sleeping baby during a Hurricane.

 So it is now about 5:45 am and I NOW have NO cell signal....what the heck will I do to pass the time because Huck will NOT let me sleep. Before I was able to scroll facebook and play on snapchat but now it's literally just me and the monster!! 

So I thought maybe if I close my eyes and pretend to be asleep and ignore him he will follow suit! IT ALMOST WORKED.....

until in between one song ending and another one starting he heard the wind howling and he was back up and barking! So I thought screw this I will just leave him in the bathroom by himself because I am gonna be sooooo grumpy if I don't get any sleep... which at this point it was like 6:30 a.m. and I was over living in the damn bathroom so I was just about to lay down on the couch and I forgot that his bad behind can easily open all of these door by jumping up on the handles because they aren't actually knobs.....

So guess who ended up back in the bathroom.... We did! I made it until 7 am and that's when I was gonna be a brat and start waking people up but luckily I could hear my parents talking...Everybody was now awake! So me and huck kicked my parents out of their bed and we slept until like 11:30 and of course his spoiled self got to sleep off and on all danggggg day while I only got in a few naps.... but we almost didn't survived Hurricane Irma. Not because of the hurricane itself.... we were actually very very lucky and all had some debris in the yards and no power while so many other Floridians were not as lucky! So I hope our story of #TeamNoSleep can bring some humor to others! I will be talking to our vet about some medication for Huck so that we are more prepared next time.

I pray that those who had to evacuate have safe travels heading back and that they have homes to return to. I cannot imagine the emotions that were felt leaving everything behind not knowing what the outcome will be. I know so many were affected by Hurricane Irma I hope we can all pull together as one FLORIDA and help each other! Be Kind, Spread Love and Pray BIG!! 

image from Poppy and Pine Cones

Adios Beaches! I'll be back!

-xoxo