February 13 - Snow Blows...

I know I got severely spoiled last week with all the beautiful weather. That made this round of winter weather just that much worse. Ugh. Over 7 inches fell today at our house. Here is a view from our back door. A lot of people didn't come in to work at all and then most of the people who did come in ended up leaving early. I did not. Teddy left work at noon and picked Alaina up from daycare to try and get her home before it got really bad. He got to our street and only got about halfway up before his car wouldn't go any further. Thankfully, some of our neighbors were home and they watched Alaina while he went and parked his car in the lot at the bottom of the hill and walked up. He then carried Alaina in her carrier from their house up to ours. So, they had a daddy & baby afternoon. He called and told me I might as well just stay at work until the plow came through. Even with four wheel drive, our neighbor didn't make it to his house either. So, I stuck it out and that ended up being the best thing anyway. By the time I left work most people had already gone home so there was very little traffic, the snow had stopped, and the plows had been out and it was so warm the roads were just WET. I drove 55 most of the way home. The plow had been through the neighborhood and I drove right up to my house with no problems. Sadly, we were going to travel back to Iowa tonight but that didn't happen due to the weather. We stayed home and made some dinner and spent the night watching TV and hanging out as a family but went to bed in pretty good time in case the weather cleared to make it back home.