March 12, 2009

• *We* *Got* *Snow*

  Last night, on the news, they said we might have sleet, frozen rain, snow . . . but no one really believes the weather forecasts around here.  We tend to respond with, “Well, we’ll wait and see . . . ” and, wait we did. 

  The wind, before bed time, was gale force!  We could hear the things on our backyard patio being thrown against the house and we could hear those things skip across the concrete before hitting the house.  This time, they were right! 

  There isn’t a lot of the white stuff, but it’s pretty and welcome, as we have seen next to NO SNOW this winter.

   
  A light dusting of snow and sleet.

  
  It was hard to wake up today.  Chirper was purring REALLY loud and Jesse, in his sleep, kept shushing us.  “Shh!”  “Shh, be quiet!”  “Shhhhh, I said!!!”  I got up with my happy cat and came to the den to watch the news and let Jesse sleep a while longer.  He said he was up with Sushi at 4:30am to let her outside.  It was already starting to sleet and she wouldn’t leave the overhang covering the back door.  He waited, let her in, went to the restroom, came back to see if she’d go out if given a second chance.  That’s when he found she HAD gone – but INSIDE, not outside.  After cleaning that, he came to bed and it was shortly after he fell back asleep that Chirper started his “I LOVE YOUUUUUU” purr!

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  Earlier this morning, it came down fast and fairly thick.
    
  Anything dark, like the paint on the house, the new shingles, or the landscape wood, was covered white.  I like the way the shutter speed made the snow look like white pine needles falling!! 
  
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  Sushi lost a tooth this morning.  I know because Luci just came and put a fang on my desk in front of me.  Apparently she forgot how much I dislike teeth and anything to do with them!  I wish I could say the fang is “cute” but I can’t.  Frankly, I feel my stomach rolling.  . . . I just called Luci to come get the tooth and put it in a ziploc baggie to show her dad tonight.  YUCKKKKK!!!!

                                  

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  Jesse took my Suburban today, but not before scraping ice from the windshield.

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  Yesterday afternoon, Stephanie came over and I did her income taxes for her (very easy) and she’s getting back about the same amount we should be receiving.  Since she’s now unemployed, that was VERY good news to her.  A bit of a security blanket while she looks for another job.  I was in the middle of teaching 2 days of school when she called and asked to come over.  We finished math, langauge, spelling, and phonics, but never got to history, health, or science . . . OR, Bible (again!).

                                    
                                                          Annamarie with Luci’s fat little toes!
  
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  I got the girls bed linens washed yesterday.  Just in time, too.  Stephanie came with two baskets of laundry to wash while I did her taxes.  Then, she and JanaLyn stayed for dinner.  I’m sure Stephanie was disappointed.  It wasn’t the usual “bill of fare” she’s used to eating here; but, chicken tenders, green beans, corn, rice, canned pear halves, and whole berry cranberry sauce.  She didn’t turn it down!  (There weren’t even biscuits served!)

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  While I checked some e-mail, this morning, the den became the cozy place for gathering.  Everyone was feeling toasty, warm.
    

  WHY?

    Because Mom started a big fire in the fireplace and it quickly took the chill from the room!!! 

  Only one problem, Jesse closed the flue without telling me and the room also quickly filled with smoke.  I fanned the back door open and closed for fear the smoke detector would go off.  Not the battery ones that beep, but the one attached to our alarm system that directly calls the fire department.  I’ve, embarrassingly, . . . uh . . . , *over cooked some food* in the past, and the fire department has been quick to call the house within seconds of the alarm going off.  Totally humiliating!

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  The other family photographer was out with her camera trying to capture the snowy yard.  She came in freezing and covered with the white stuff!
    

  Rissy has written a few entries in the journal she got for her birthday.  It’s not very “little girl” or “child” looking, but she loves it because she likes “pretty things” instead of whimsical.
   

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  I’ll have to wait to see if we will have our child class tonight.  I suspect most of this won’t stick; but, the house we meet at is in the country and sometimes those back roads are more slick.
  

  Today’s To Do List:
  *  Finish another 2 days of school (history, health & science)
  *  Go over my child class study notes
  *  Bake that big chocolate chip cookie Rissy and I have been talking about
  *  Laundry of some sort or other!
  *  Keep the fire going to keep the house warm (it’s really chilly in here today)

  Be Blessed  ~

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