I am not a rocket sci­en­tist but after the ice storm and HEAVY snow the equa­tion I have worked out is…
A lot of mature trees+heavy ice and snow= a huge mess. Fire­wood any­one??? Right now we have almost as many branches on the ground as we do in the trees. Crimeny
We have had munchkin grand­baby out dur­ing the entire storm. When we lost power the other night she kept ask­ing grandpa to fix the TV because it was “bro­ken”. It was fun if not a lit­tle scary hop­ing the heat and lights would come back on even if it was 3 am and every­thing we thought we had turned off came roar­ing back to life. Kud­dos to our rural electric…we only lost power for 4 hours. They are amaz­ing.
The munchkin is talk­ing a lot now. She can name all the horses but has trou­ble with our horse “Col­orama” She calls him “Calla­grandma” I should be flat­tered. I make her say it over and over just because it is so cute. She calls her babies “honey” all the time and if they fall she kisses them and says “that will be okay”. Hon­estly. How do they get from tiny babies to know­ing that at 2?? She is also doing really well at time per­spec­tive. Today she told me she broke her pur­ple color last night. She did. She also told me she had a “time out” at her sit­ters. I asked her why and she wouldn’t look at me. I said..“Claire, did you not share your toys?” She still would not look at me. She hates time outs. She also knows darn well when she has done some­thing that needs cor­rect­ing. Guess she hauled off and slugged the kid for tak­ing her doll. Hmmm. Just men­tion “time out” and she becomes instantly bash­ful. She is very strong willed and don’t think her mother holds her account­able for her lit­tle wrongs so this is a good thing even if the munchkin does not think so. She has also become fond of say­ing ” I like” to every­thing she likes includ­ing her grand­par­ents. Don’t know if she knows what it means but when she says it, it is always in the right con­text. She con­stantly amazes us with her knowl­edge of abstract things, things I didn’t think she would know at this age. She is already pre­tend­ing to go to the store and will pack her bag, throw it on her shoul­der and head out with baby in tow. She came back into the liv­ing room once because “I for­got my phone” Really. She pre­tends to eat and pre­tends to change her babies dia­pers. Is she sup­posed to do that at 2? She is a delight every moment.
Well, think they will hardly get the roads cleared when the next storm comes tomor­row night and the few days after that. So…all you peo­ple who were lov­ing the warm temps in Decem­ber and Jan­u­ary? Are you happy now??
Rumor has it my step­son is get­ting called to active duty in the National Guard. They have been put on alert. We are very proud of him and very scared. I will keep you posted.
Well that’s all for now…munchkin is due to wake up and the ice is falling on the roof even as we speak.Give me 12 inches of snow and no ice any­time. Don’t forget…free fire­wood, you just have to cut up and haul away.