Twenty Inches
Usually when there are reports of a major snowstorm in the DC area, we look around and say “Huh? They call this snow?”
This time there was actually something to all the hype. Despite living in wintry environments most of my life, watching 20 inches of snow drop in less than 24 hours has been a pretty rare occurrence in my life.
I am just sad to say that my car sucks ass in the snow. I guess it all comes down to tires, and why would we have winter tires here? I went to a party on Friday night and the ride home was kind of funny. There was about 1/4″ of snow on the ground and most of the cars were going about five miles an hour. I was laughing until I got to our street.
The entrance to our street is up a slight incline. I could see the cars in front of me were having trouble, but never dreamed I wouldn’t be able to make it up the hill. But I was stuck!
Eventually I was able to get about half way up the baby hill by swishing my steering wheel around, getting out of the ruts. But once I hit the speed bump I was totally done. I was about to go and walk up to the house and get Mike’s help, but a neighbor came out and pushed me up the hill. I really do like our new neighborhood. Lots of friendly people.
After that little incident, I have no intention of ever trying to drive in the snow again, no matter how thin it is!
We didn’t go anywhere yesterday, just hung around the house and played in the snow. We had a gift exchange at the party and I ended up with a gingerbread house kit. We tried one of those kits a couple of years ago and I swore I would never try to make another gingerbread house, but this kit was much better. The icing was pre-made and it came with a molded tray so you could just fill in the slots with icing and put together the house. This kept things upright with very little trouble. I need to remember this trick for next year–the brand was Create a Treat.
We spent all of today digging out the cars. Mike did most of the digging, but I helped a little. I was able to play the pregnancy card. I felt bad about it, but I really don’t want to aggravate the sciatica I had with Erik. It all started the day of my baby shower, when I was on my feet for hours, cutting up fruit and veggie trays. Sometimes I start to feel the familiar burn and it freaks me out. That was a horrible few months. I don’t want that again.
The pregnancy hormones are kicking it into high gear. I am watching a sappy Hallmark movie about orphaned boys right now. Why would I subject myself to this? I feel the need to go find an orphanage and bring home a sad little kid. I know the fact of adoption is very, very different from a movie and we are not equipped to take care of a child who has lost everything/never had anything.
I was planning on doing some quilting this weekend, but yet again it didn’t happen. I pulled out a quilt top with the intention of just quilting the danged thing without a border, but after I put it on the bed I realized that it will not be big enough without borders. I left it on the bed in hopes that it will motivate me. I don’t have much hope, though.
I bought a quilt kit for baby Elsa, this Paper Doll quilt (didn’t pay anywhere near that amount, though!), and really want to get it started! So why don’t I? I first saw this last year and wanted to make it for my niece but knew it would just be destroyed. As soon as I found out I was having a girl, I started searching the web for the kit. I don’t think it is going to be a good baby quilt, but I still want to make it. I need to do up a little baby quilt, maybe with all the pinks, browns and teals I’ve been collecting over the past couple of years.
I won’t be getting anything done this week, that’s for sure. Even though the roads are cleared, the county has cancelled school for tomorrow. Our preschool follows the county cancellations even though they aren’t affiliated with the county. Bah! The roads will be totally fine in the afternoon. I am not happy.
What else? Guess that’s it. Snow. No quilting. Lots of shoveling. Our weekend in a nutshell.