What We Have

Dear Readers,

Let me tell ya what we have here.

We have feet of snow. FEET. Drifting up "taller than you Mom!" and "Almost as tall as The Man!". The road leading up to our house has drifts over it rising up higher than me. Daughter and The Man went out to play for an hour or so (the wind seemed to die down to a thirty mile an hour roar for a bit) and he dug out giant bear caves into the snow.

We have winds going at up to sixty miles per hour. The winds blasted freezing rain over all the windows facing the rear of the house until they were frosted like a shower door. The yard looks like a snow ball exploded in the center of a Christmas tree lot. Not because we have Christmas trees… because of all the branches and  evergreen debris scattered near and far.

We have some movies but the power flickers at LEAST once every forty five minutes making every clock flash 12 and forcing a person to restart the dvd and search for their chapter. Also Little Man yells "UH OH! IT DARK IN HERE!"

We have a toddler who hasn't had anywhere to run or shout except the hall, going round the dining table and through the kitchen and back round again. He says "Shingle gels! Shingle gels! Laffffing all the way HAY!" and he says "cundy! I want cannndy!" and he says "Sissser! Sisssssser, catch me, I hide and peek!" and also "it still knowing mama! It knowing outside!"

We have an eight year old with hair down to her bum. It is the perfect rope, curtain, handle, and noisemaker, for our toddler when he grows tired of his own hollers. She has eighty thousand toys but all of them are "boring." If we allow too much screen time (the computer, the Nintendo ds, the television, movies etc) she get that glazed eye look and takes twenty minutes to respond to commands AND has insomnia at night. (yes, yes she does remind me of me)

We have a man unused to being in this house twenty four seven. Unused to spending so much quality time with the children. Unused to The Dew without any Dew. He wanders around the house like those nutso polar bears caged down at the zoo. One moment crazily batting around random objects, the next staring forlornly out a window.

We have Christmas a mere couple of days away. No tree. Fewer gifts than planned. No holiday meal. Just the joy of each others company on yet another day frozen inside this house with little to do but exclaim over and over, "this is crazy! CRAZY!" because this is not normal NW weather.


PS xmas should actually be sooner because I'm eating may way through Santa's stocking candy and I cannot seem to stop myself. If the power stays on long enough we will make cookies so the kids have something left the 25th.