October 22 we woke up to this...whoa. October 22?!!? That's 2 months before the official 1st day of winter! Lucky for me Justin was home for his "research" week and he took Zach to school. Well, tried to. We were snowed into our garage. Ridiculous. It is days like these that I question my living in Canada...or any place that has snow. But I know this happens to me every winter. The reality of winter. It always comes back! This year I even found myself in May dreading winter coming. "Yeah, the weather is turning beautiful now and spring is amazing here, but spring is here, and then summer will be gone, and then winter is here...for a long time." I know I have a sickness! It envelops my brain. Too much. But THIS IS WHY!!! I really really dislike this! When I can just stay home and watch the snow fall it is quaint. But life these days isn't all indoors! And I have a kid in school now that has to be there every morning! Before any thaw. Almost makes me want to home school...but that's not going to happen. So I have to grow up and be brave. I just feel ill prepared for this ('this' being winter roads and driving). Out of my element. Uninformed. I didn't grow up with this! Put me in L.A. traffic and i am way more comfortable than with a middle of no where winter road! Is it wet? Icy? Dry? And freezing rain? I thought that frozen rain=snow but apparently not! Even rain has to be threatening here! Ativan might be beneficial on a winter drive for me, but then maybe I would relax too much and then things would go wrong!
Anyway, you can take the girl out of Southern California, but you can't take the Southern California out of the girl...some days I long for my southern California "winters." Wearing my sweater until 11 a.m...Still mowing the lawn every few weeks...Or maybe I could fabricate my ideal winter. Maybe 5 dumps of snow. On the weekends only. When I have no errands to run, lots of groceries in my house, and nothing to be outside my house for and we could have time to play. And I would be at my ideal weight so I don't feel guilty baking all day. :) And the roads and sidewalks will be completely clear by Monday morning. Snow can stay on the grass for 3 months of the year with melt in between. Winter will only be in Winter. Like it says on the Calendar...December 21? First snow right in time for a White Christmas. Lows are NO LOWER than -10. And March 21st the blossoms are out. That's what the calendar says!!
Anyway, enough of my rant. I will get used to it and not be a crazy lady by the end of winter. Then Spring will come and I will fear winter again. And then I will realize that this is my life, for the next 100 years I will have the reality of winter 6-7 months of the year. I will be that 80 year old woman late for my shift at the temple because it took forever to brush off my car and get through the foot of snow on the streets, catching myself before I almost slipped on the icy sidewalk and broke my hip. Both of them. And my arms. Both of those too. :) At least it melts here in Southern Alberta. I am really enjoying that part of this!!
And Zach did get there. He wouldn't have if I was the only one home. No way.
But look at my blessing. I can't complain about ANYTHING when I have this. This is such a sweet picture of Adaleigh. I LOVE IT! And this is true to life. This baby is like this 99.3% of the time.
Look at that little face.
Later on I took the kids outside to play. It was fun, for a few minutes...until Kate kept taking off her mittens and I had to put them on a million times and they wanted to build a snowman but the snow wasn't wet enough to pack into a ball...JUST PLAY!!! :)
This girl (Kate) bathes in snow just like she does in any water. She LOVES the water and LOVES the snow and LOVES to eat snow and ice or anything having to do with water. But with snow your face gets cold and freezes, and if you take your gloves off you get cold!
Zach's getting ambitious enough to help shovel. AWESOME! Get that man a bigger shovel!
Trying to navigate through the deep snow!
Here are some pictures from a week later. Addie has been mastering sitting up...
...still a work in progress.
(although now she is a champ at it!! I am slowly catching up on these blog posts!)
And Kate's new favorite lunch. Monster faces! Justin's mom said she used to do this for the kids and they loved it. My kids did too! So much so that Kate did it all by herself a couple days later when she helped make lunch! And she did sooo good! Love her creativity!
Trying to make the same face if you can't tell.
5 comments:
First of all, Addie is deliciously cute! And secondly, I have NEVER gotten used to our Albertan winters adn I never will and I will never love them each time the first snow fall comes because I, like you, can only think of when will this end? And why can't it start and end when it's supposed to? I too will take your 5 dumps. 5 dumps beats 5-6 months! Yuck. Good luck! It still hasn't snowed here. In fact, it is above zero still. Tee hee. Don't hate me!!!!
Yes. Addie is adorable. Such a sweet smile. And I have thought the exact same thing about dreading the winter coming, in May. I also have never been used to the winters here. How can anyone live here?!!! I don't know. But I do. It's Alberta. I do really love Alberta!
Oh Amelia it is not that bad. BUT you grew up somewhere nice so you know that there is better out there - I don't. This is just how life has always been. But I will admit that I feel the same way as you in may. August is hard for me too when the temperature starts to drop at night and it reminds you of what is coming. August should still be hot hot hot!
And being snowed in is probably the coolest thing ever. No school!
It is better not to dream of another life - you just gotta accept it and take up hobbies like the biathlon?!
And get Justin to buy you a car. With all wheel drive and wicked awesome winter tires. They are amazing in the snow.
I don't mind the snow. I just hate the cold and how long it lasts. If our other seasons were longer and our winter shorter I'd be ok ;) well... maybe...
love the monster lunches. I should try that. maybe Will would actually eat!
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