SNOW!

When I woke up at 7 yesterday it was a blizzard. The snow has not stopped since it started yesterday morning, and it isn't just a few flakes falling from the sky, it was like whiteout conditions all day yesterday! It has been crazy, I would say an easy two feet, if not more, and yes it is still snowing out. I decided we probably wouldn't make it out of the driveway for Ethan's class yesterday morning. Which is sad because it was the last class and apparently a really good one. So we stayed home and both the boys had a bath. We vaccummed the entire house and finally cleaned the kitchen floors. I did the first driveway and front porch shovel at around 11, Ethan watched me from the window. While the boys were napping I did the next shovel, and I did another one last night around 8. The snow just keeps piling up!

I had planned to go grocery shopping on Saturday (just before my parents got here) so I had been trying to eat up everything before then. I didn't know this snow was coming and when it did I realized we had NO food. No milk, no nothing. I had to give Ethan oatmeal with no milk for lunch. I decided I needed to go grocery shopping. So at around 4 we packed up and headed out. I wasn't sure if we were going to make it and in hind-sight I should have just taken a few of the offers for help but instead we were off. Made it out of the driveway and somehow made it up our road. The road conditions were terrible but we somehow managed our way to Virginia's. I dropped off Ethan and headed to Superstore. I had to shovel my way out at Virginia's but Wyatt and I made it to Superstore. I bought enough groceries to last for weeks. I spent enough to get my free 25 dollar gift card!

On the way out of the store, full cart and a sleeping Wyatt, the wind and snow were blowing. I couldn't get the stupid cart to go over the snow, so I was pulling it, cars were waiting for me, it was a bit of a nightmare. I have stupid Ugg boots that have NO grip what-so-ever. I fell once trying to pull the cart to my car, then I fell again and a very nice man got out of his car and helped me take the cart to the car. I loaded up the groceries and had to wait while the ice on the front window defrosted (because for some reason I don't have an ice scraper in my car). I used to have a huge like safety bin in the trunk of my car, but Kelly made fun of it and it didn't fit with the stroller but it sure would have been handy! Thankfully I had put some candies in the front seat, so waiting for the defrost wasn't too bad.

We made our way back to pick up Ethan. Richard had to give us a couple pushes to send us on our way back home. We slid down our road and took a good run at the driveway. We made it half way up and I had to back up and try again. I was VERY close to crashing into Kelly's truck but finally we were home and in the garage with plenty of food. Phew... Today we will stay home. Hopefully Spruce Grove can get their act together and get those roads plowed.

It is 5:13 right now, I woke up with a migraine so I had a shower and am waiting for the drugs to kick in. I bought some gingerbread dough at Superstore yesterday, so this afternoon we are going to make cookies. Something for Ethan to do, I know he is getting sick of his toys. If it stops snowing we may walk up and get our mail....