Happy Snow Days*

A new appreciation for, "The calm before the storm."

 Sleep tight! Wake up to...

... Snowy Wonderland*

There are two cars underneath there. I know...

Tried to trapse over to my car to see the damage. 

{Daddy recommended I shovel off as much snow as possible before it got icy}

Making it down the steps and to the street was nothing short of a miracle. 

WELL over knee deep,

 so I didn't even attempt the impossible.

(Or what I thought was impossible. See below~)

 I walked over to a friends house on semi-cleared and fully deserted roads. Then planned to stay pretty much tucked safely inside in sweats reading this A-Mazingly adorable book a friend brought over the day before, "In preparation for the storm" he said. Helps when you know awesome people~

But back to "The Impossible --- or not so impossible" task of clearing the snow*  

 I like to think I helped. But really it was ALL my guy friends who insisted they come over and dig us out that night, cus to wait till Monday would be a disaster. They did things I could never, would never do in clearing out the snow. Plus, they'd already dug out their own home and another friend's home. I was prepared to just let nature take its course and pray we'd have a miraculous heat wave of 80 degrees and all the snow would magically melt off and away. 

We took a dinner/pizza break after the first 2.5 hrs, (small payment for what they'd done), then they went back out to finish the job.

We DID manage to have a little fun, though. 

It's not every day you get to:

~ Shovel yourself out of Blizzard 2013, feeling like you've finally earned the right to say, "I know" when people tell you about Boston winters.

~ Shimmy through a snow-tunnel in your drive way. Thank you Matt.

~ Finally meet 3 of your neighbors, after you've been living somewhere for 2 years.

~ Drive a cop car after he gets stuck in front of your house and asks you to drive as everyone else pushes.

~ Subsequently be told by your little brother, "You can just die now," because in his book, my life has reached it's pinnacle of purpose now that I've driven a cop car.

~ Hold church in your friends' apartment when church is canceled. Thank you Bishop.

~ Realize how grateful you are to see a side walk, steps, your car, or that the heat hasn't shut off, yet.

~What a difference a day makes~

Happy Snow Days*