Snow Day

We survived Thanksgiving and had a nice visit with Dad and Lynn. Leslie told Dad that they were welcome to stay and Dad replied that they would leave on Monday morning, depending on the weather. Leslie promptly replied that she would pray for snow! An hour later when we headed out to church we went outside to find it snowing.

The good news was that Dad and Lynn were were able to leave as scheduled on Monday. The bad news was that Monday evening it snowed quite a bit. It made my trip home a bit difficult, but it made for an unexpected evening of play for the kids. All the kids except Mikey and JJ got bundled up and went out in the snow. Leslie and I joined them and demonstrated some of the finer points of snow ball throwing! It was great fun. I took some pictures as well.

I woke up this morning to icy roads and weather reports showing horrible road conditions. When I saw a traffic chopper showing cars spun out on the hill that I have to drive down to get to the train, I got nervous. All of the kids schools decided to "close" for the day and my office also decided to close as well. I had to get word out to my employees and monitor our systems, but it was nice to be able to work from home in my slippers. The kids spent quite a bit of time outside in the snow before coming back in to warm up. They decided to watch the movie "Snow Day" for obvious reasons. They're all hoping for another snow day tomorrow, but I doubt it. I'm just hoping that Leslie doesn't pray for snow again....

Last night I felt pretty good. I was trying to leave work at the end of the day and got held up again as usual. People always seem to have some last minute question that they just have to talk to me about at the end of the day. Anyway, the delay caused me to miss my usual bus and so I had to scramble to get to the train on time. I wound up a block from the train with 1 minute to get there along with 5 college students. As soon as the light changed we all took off in a mad dash for the train. Somehow, the old stride came back and I slid into a comfortable run and pulled away from the pack and made it to the train. Yeah, that felt good hopping onto the training and watching that batch of students breathlessly run up behind me! I should have known that was too good. I got home to a crazy rush. Leslie had already taken Mikey and JJ to church. They will be away all weekend at a Life Teen retreat. Dominic is also having a Junior High kids retreat at church this weekend, except that his retreat finished this afternoon. To top if off, Sarah and Chris were running around and knocked a desk over onto Chris's hand. His thumb was hurting him and so Leslie wound up having to take him in to urgent care for an X-ray. They weren't sure if his thumb is broken or not and so they gave him a brace to isolate the wrist and thumb.

I woke up this morning feeling last nights run. Sara and I had to go work at the University of WA "Huskie" stadium removing about 20,000 seat cushions with our church for a fund raising project. We worked our tails off, but we had a great time. We spent the remainder of the day helping clean up the house and catching up with all the chores that we never seem to keep up with during the busy week. We're trying to get everything cleaned up in anticipation of Dad and Lynne coming to visit for Thanksgiving. Maybe there'll be time to sleep in tomorrow....

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