For some reason that seems more strange to me than saying “The Blizzard of ‘78” that my parents reference. Do we really live in the year 2011? Shouldn’t we have flying cars by now? :-) Will Jack say “I lived through the blizzard of 2011 someday?
Anyway…it was magical and amazing. Up at my in-laws we had drifts of close to 6ft in parts and THANK GOODNESS for my father and brother-in-law who spent close to 4 hours shoveling and snow-blowing us out!
we all know how Jack feels about shoveling – he loved it, but got tired pretty quickly due to the weight and the cold. I wish we could have played outside longer and gone sledding, but we couldn’t even get out!
we were lucky to get up north in time – it literally started snowing hard and blowing up to 50mph gusts about 10 min after we arrived. it was a fun day of snuggling in, having ice cream for breakfast, hot chocolate after shoveling, and playing zoo at Pop’s house.
i wont even get into what i ran into when i got back in the city at 7pm last night except for to comment that my true “Momma Strength” kicked in as I was football carrying my 35 lb screaming son, my asleep 20 lb daughter in her 10 lb car seat, my laptop, and the diaper bag for 2 blocks along a 6 inch shoveled sidewalk (our garage alley was impassable and snowed in). i am not ashamed to say that #1- i lost my cool, #2-i have never wanted my husband or dad (or any man, for that matter) more, and #3-i was sitting in a hot bath with a beer at 9pm for an hour crying my eyes out. the city is just beyond disarray – i have no idea how/when they will get all of this snow out since it is supposed to be sub-freezing temps for the next couple of weeks.
but – we got through it and now it is only TWO MORE DAYS until Scott is home. HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!
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