white stuff

so we've had some snow here in good ol' state of Kansas...some areas (ours got about 12inches), others like mid-Missouri areas were in the 20's or 30... really it's been no big deal to me... it's Kansas afterall, wait three days and the weather will change right? yep! Monday (1/31) as if the snow gods were teasing us...it began to drizzle..freeze...drizzle some more... it's that nasty stuff that NO ONE likes driving in... where idiots become lunatics and smart drivers become white knuckled basket cases... not me...i've driven through some doozie storms before in my day...'driving to the high school, UP 67th street's terrible hill between Midland and Pflumm! only to arrive at school and the poor custodian is yelling/waving to everyone - SCHOOL's CLOSED'...yeah drove home pretty mad after that!...'ahh remember that freshman year of college, driving back to Hutch for school on Monday...a normal trip of 3hr that ended up taking me over 6hrs only to find out the next Monday that school was closed!?!'..... yep i've seen it...driven in it...survived! haha!

I leave work early on Monday...get home with no trouble... My boss went around that afternoon and basically told everyone to not bother coming in on Tuesday...'work from home' he said... well you don't have to tell me twice :) So I get up Tuesday... get the kids to daycare...roads aren't bad at all... then, then, by about 8:30...all hell breaks loose... it starts snowing...huge flakes...millions of 'em...trillions of 'em.... it was in fact a blizzard...well to me it was... just for fyi... a blizzard is described as: a storm with dry, driving snow, strong winds, and intense cold... strong winds that last more than 3hrs... that part is important apparently? Curt drives home in his car (good ol' Saturn) and was so frazzled and upset that he had to just be by himself for a few minutes so he could calm down... i don't get it... snow = go slow... if you get stuck we have cell phones now you know?

when i did the path to hutch that year i didn't have any cell phone? GOOD LORD what would I have done had i got stuck in Galva? in the middle of freakin' nowhere...in the dark? i had a guardian angel that night...and i think Curt had one on Tuesday on his way home... :) perhaps the same one? So it snowed ALL DAY LONG on Tuesday... we finally picked up the boys...roads were getting out of hand... crews hadn't been by and really what was the point until it stopped snowing? Curt went and tried to snow blow the driveway...the little machine o' terror did just fine... got a good bunch of it off and made for an easy getaway the next morning when Curt tried again - this time in a awd mountaineer...the name of the car just oozes triumph doesn't it? Well she's a good girl and got him safe to work... But you know what! They didn't even need him...most of his group called in because none of their neighborhood streets had been plowed... only 3 of them made it in and one of them was downtown... "OVERACHIEVERS"... oh well... Curt got to come home early that day and help wrangle the kids so I could work... they didn't even do a day-sort on Wednesday... and again what was the point? KCI-airport was shut down... so there would be no 'air' deliveries... I'm sure tons of packages came back with the drivers from Tuesday because it was either too hard to deliver or no one was there to receive... little known fact: UPS can use "extreme weather conditions" to not deliver your package...so if you're expecting something important and it's bad weather - you better be watching for that super nice man in brown and be prepared to meet him half way! OK off my soap box:) Wednesday the snow had stopped by that morning... Curt again went out with the ol' terror (i.e. snow blower) and did a little more clean up... the drifts were taller than Noah... who i about 3ft tall :) but I saw even taller ones that creeped up to approx 4ft (over our trash container). It really is a pretty site - all the white, clean snow! I do enjoy the winter... maybe because I was born in it? it's part of me? who knows:) Jeez this is a long post... the words just kept coming just like the snow flakes kept falling... hehe...stay warm friends! Only 7 more weeks to April!

Sadly there weren't any pics of Mark in this white stuff - too darn cold... he did like looking out the window though and part of me thinks he could see his daddy and big brother enjoying in it... frankly I think he liked staying inside with me all to himself!