SNOW SNOW SNOW!!! Yes sirree! It’s a marshmallow world in the winter here on the east coast, I can tell you that much. We are getting snow and more snow. It’s GORGEOUS clinging to the branches and piling up on the evergreens. I’m just going to riddle my post with pics my lovely daughter took!
Here she is, isn’t she a cutie? (and she just got her driver’s permit yesterday….oh dear!)
I don’t know how it is for you where you live or if you even GET snow, but we don’t usually get TOO much snow here in PA . I think when I first moved here in the 80’s they only had 2 snow plows in the whole county! They have a few more now, but I swear they don’t know what to do with them when snow like THIS hits. So what happens is there’s a HUGE panic when a storm is looming on the horizon and everyone…..and I mean EVERYONE hits the shops the day before. Yesterday the parking lots were full, full, full. Not only at the grocery stores like usual getting stocked up on food, but I think Holiday shoppers were trying to get all their shopping done knowing they would by stuck at home today. Thank goodness I had the foresight earlier in the week to go to Super Suppers and stock up on dinners for my family to last for the next couple of weeks. What a relief that is! To KNOW you have meals made up and all ready to go in your freezer. It made this week SO much more manageable than last week when I could hardly remember my name let alone what was going to be for dinner! When I saw my kids making peanut butter sandwiches on corn tortillas because that’s ALL we had, guilt kicked me into gear. And when the snow started to fall, I didn’t have to panic and run to the store!
My hubby was flying back from Hong Kong last night and I was SO worried he wouldn’t make it before the storm hit since he was flying into JFK in New York. Luckily, the storm was moving UP the coast and hadn’t hit NY before he arrived. I was thrilled when I heard the garage door open at 9 am (after I got over my initial fright that someone was breaking in!) I heard his voice and all was right with the world. Well, MY world at least!
I had the most productive morning….baking cookies I haven’t had time to bake and getting some projects cut out to stitch. My machine was accumulating too much dust, it needed to be USED! There are so many things I want to make this time of year and never seem to find the time to do it. Please tell me I’m not the only one! Like Beth, I’ve been referred to as the Energizer Bunny as well, but I gotta tell ya, lately I feel like someone’s taken my Energizers and replaced ‘em with a crappy no name brand that runs out of juice way too fast! Either that or one bunny foot got caught on something and all I seem to do is spin around in circles. Finally today, I feel like I accomplished something.
Believe it or not we actually DID venture out into the storm. I mean, that’s why you HAVE 4-wheel drive Suburban right? The roads were a right mess, but hey, we practically had the mall to ourselves! We got caught up on some Christmas shopping, had some alone time together and got home in time to pop my ready-made meal into the oven.
