Winter Storm 2009

When Bud and I lived in Ohio snow was a part of winter. You didn't necessarily like it but you knew that it was coming sometime during the winter. It is what you got used to.

This is our old house in Ohio. I still miss our friends and neighbors there.

View from our sledding hill

Abby was 3 1/2 in this picture. We got 2 feet of snow right before Christmas and I still managed to get to work the very next day at the hospital.

Now we live in the South and in the South snow is a very BIG deal. Even when 1-3 inches are predicted. I laughed when I turned on the TV and heard "Winter Storm 2009" with almost continuous coverage of the impending "storm." We left for church and I realized that the snow was a big deal down here because NO ONE knows how to drive in the stuff. I found myself getting very cranky and yelling which probably isn't the most Christlike action, especially when you are headed to church and three sets of impressionable ears are in the back seat. The girls were so excited when we left church and there was an inch on the ground and the parking lot was slushy, never mind that not a bit was laying on the roadways. By the time we got home, the snow had turned to rain and the kids never did get to play in it beyond the few snowballs they threw at each other in the church parking lot. We never got more than that inch in our neck of the woods (don't I sound very Southern?) but we had a good time pretending that it was coming down as we ate our soup and grilled cheese sandwiches next to the fire.

The girls and I in front of our church

Bud and the girls in front of the church

The girls with their obligatory funny picture

Oh well, there is always 2010!

P.S. Mom,
I only let the girls wear jeans to church because the weather was so miserable!!!