Snowmageddon: Part 2

We made it through the night, and managed to keep power, thank goodness.  I woke up a few times here and there, weather it was from little people crawling into my bed, or the whistling of the wind whipping around snow outside. 

Waking up in the morning, it was snowing sideways.... and didn't look to be slowing down any time soon!  The kids wanted to go outside immediately.  Dressing each kid in their snow gettup takes longer than the time they want to be outside, and by the time I get through all three of them I already want to collapse just from that!  

Zoë had more fun with her snowshoes, excited she was taller than the mailbox!

 Vince enjoyed scaling the snow drifts as well

time to tackle the driveway....thank God for snow blowers, although they are NOT EASY to push around

 

 And.... after literally 9 hours of shoveling and snow blowing, my driveway was functional again

And now I'm physically and mentally exhausted.  And seeing that it's still snowing, and that the driveway is covered again... I'm sobbing!

We did manage to get some warm snuggles while inside the house today. 

Getting Ready for Snowmageddon

Yes, we are expecting the blizzard of the century up here in New England.  I think it's been named Juno.  State of Emergency has been called, school cancelled for tomorrow, and likely Wednesday too.  The news keeps reporting the driving curfew, advising to stay off the roads, or you could get fined or even put in jail.  They remind us that blizzard conditions really means you ACTUALLY CAN'T SEE much further than 4 feet ahead of you.   
Mike just flew out to Albuquerque on business.  His plane left at 3pm.  He gave me the quick brush up training on how to use the snow-blower.  Hopefully I can dig us out of the house at some point.  All I can say is..... payback's a bitch.  And boy will he pay for ditching us during this storm of predicted 'historical proportions'.

So what do I do when I'm stressed, needing to deflect my frustration?... why, I go shopping of course.  I've been wanting a pair of snowshoes for a while now, so what better timing!?  Found a pair for myself, and some for Vince and Zoë too.  We'll be able to scale any mountain of snow that comes our way! (I hope).

 Zoë and Vince 'hiked' around our front yard trying out their new shoes.  This has got to be my favorite picture of Zoë right now, little cutie!

 She decided to run a circle around the tree...

 And who knew there were such a thing as light up snowshoes?  Vince loves his new bling snowshoes

 Now, if the power will just please STAY ON, and will the snow blower just please NOT blow up or catch fire while I'm digging us out (thanks Jon Manto for that lovely story, feeding my angst!), we may just have ourselves an ok time.  So far it's been ok.  The kids are bathed and asleep, my mom and I are watching Golden Girls, while sipping wine and thinking about purchasing the personal pedi callus remover we just saw on TV.  I'll try and update tomorrow!     

MLK (non)weekend

Vince was fine at 10am Saturday, then at noon falls onto the couch like a rag doll, saying he doesn't feel well.  Ugh... Fever of 102.7, turned out the poor kid got the flu.  It's Sunday evening now, and he's doing much better however... Able to bug his siblings successfully again.  I attribute that shortened course of flu to the fact he got the flu shot.  It didn't protect him completely, but that's a pretty quick bounce back!