A Day in the Life

When I was trying to think of a clever title for this post I thought "A Life in the Day". Whoops! Tells you where my mind is...NOWHERE! Because I've lost it. :o) Rewind 36 hrs...

Yesterday a.m. we woke up to a pretty normal morning. The temp. was 4 below (down from 37 above @ midnight, if that tells you anything). Cait came into our room at about 7:15 a.m. and said "Olivia sent me a text...she said 'Good morning! No school!'" What? No school? Why in the world not? Well I turned on the t.v. and saw the blob headed our way, and by golly they got it right! By about 11:00 a.m. it was snowing, blowing, whatever else. They tell me it rained the night before...somewhere during the 37 degree midnight hour, I'd imagine. SO, we had ice, then snow. And wind. It was a lovely day. Jason stayed home from work...I'm glad he didnt' chance the 55 mi. one way drive considering the road conditions. I left work at 5:30 and picked up McDonald's on the way home for dinner. Bleck. We watched a little American Idol. Shortly after that Cait was off to bed...she's had a nasty cold for a couple of days. I wasn't too far behind her.

This morning I woke up around 5:00 a.m. to my dear husband banging around in the kitchen. :o) I stayed in bed...it was, after all, only 5! He came back to bed...and then I heard a motor boat (snoring). I couldn't wake him...I knew he had a pretty restless night so I let him be, thinking maybe, just maybe he'll stop soon and I'll be able to get back to sleep. Well maybe that didn't happen. I lay there until 6:00 and decided to get up then. I came down to feed the cat and hopped online just to make sure there was school today. There WASN'T. The list was HUGE. It seemed alright, with the exception of the -35 degree windchills. I suppose the country roads weren't cleared yet from our little blizzard yesterday. No school. Again. So Cait was home today. She did do a few things around the house "without being told" as she so stated in one of her million phone calls to me. She did the dishes, swept the kitchen, shoveled the steps (she was told to shovel the steps though). Jason was home today too...he always has Wednesdays off. He did the snowblowing--ours and our deceased neighbor's. After that I met him at Shopko to pick out some new frames. Then I went back to work. Until 6:30 p.m. It has been absolutely nuts at work with the recent interest rate reduction(s). Good for us, I guess. We're not quite ready for the spring thaw...ready or not, here they come! And now my brain is mush.

Have a splendid evening! Oh, and Jason did have dinner ready just as I walked in the door. Perfect timing...he didn't know when I was coming home. It was a relief to not have to worry about that.