Brrrrrr!!!

When I say it’s cold here right now, everything is relative… I mean COLD for Central TX! I know many of you get these temps (and colder) all the time during the winter, but I can’t remember it ever being 17 degrees in the 6 years I’ve lived here.

Yesterday our power went out as we were getting ready for school in the morning. I thought it was just because of the high winds we were getting, but it turns out that it was deliberate! A ‘rolling blackout’ they call it, because the power grid can’t keep up with the demand. After the first 20 minutes it came back on but then for the next 2 hours or so it would go off every 7 minutes just for like 2 seconds then come back on again! I’m not sure if that is what it was supposed to be doing or if, as Jason said, there is something wrong with the ‘transformer box outside in the cul-de-sac? Either way, it meant I couldn’t turn on the tv (Tivo has to reboot every time the power goes out, so it would only just say reboot then the power would turn it off again – not worth putting on!) we turned the computers off too because the backup battery kept beeping… and all this was making poor Boo freak out. He was trembling so much I felt so sorry for him.  Not to mention that the house was freezing. I had the thermostat set to 73 but the temp in the house was only 64! I called in to the store after taking Kristen to school and picked up some packs of wood, and lit a fire yesterday. 

School was delayed 2 hours this morning because they were expecting more power cuts, but so far it hasn’t gone off. I took Kristen to school at 9.15am and now I’m back doing laundry.

I have no photos to share with todays post (would love to show you a nice snowy scene but we have none here in TX) so I thought I’d show you some pictures of ‘snow days gone by’ :-)

This was probably Kristen’s first snow day (that she could walk in). . . taken in MD, Jan 2002 (she was 14mths old).

I love that little hat and glove set. I bought it in England when we took her to visit when she was 8mths old.

The following year (Feb 2003, 2 yrs,3mths) she learned to make snow angels. . . .

. . . . and snowmen!

A few days after this picture was taken we got more snow… we woke up one morning to this . . . . !!!!!

So you see, we’ve had our share of snow, but ya know what? I still miss it!  And I know Kristen would love to see more of it too – what kid doesn’t love to play in the snow :-)

I hope all of you that have a lot of it right now can either have fun in it (with your kiddies) or stay inside and stay warm. Make a hot cup of chocolate, snuggle beside the fire . . . embrace the joy in Winter, for soon it will be Spring again ( and I know you’re all looking forward to that!).

 

Denise