We should be sitting down right about now to hear a college jazz concert. Should being the operative word. Instead, we’re at home due to a canceled concert andsome uncooperative weather. Brooklynn is not impressed, not one bit. In fact, she’d like to share her opinion of how things went down today.
I can only imagine what this will be like when she’s 16. Help us all.
This winter has been decidedly unlike last year in the fact that we have had cold, snow, and an actual winter season by anyone’s standards. So, also unlike last year, we actually got into decorating our tree.
Tomorrow we head out once more across the country side. Here’s hoping that the snow and cold can cooperate for a couple more interstate drives this year.
We’re only driving into a winter storm warning. I’m counting on luck and four-wheel drive to be on our side.
With some of the traveling we’ll be doing over the next few weeks, Rhiannon and I decided that if we were going to get lights on our house, we better do it before the Christmas season is over. That, and the fact that last year we waited until December to get any lights and the selection was pretty picked over. We have LED light strands that allow up to 85 of them to be daisy-chained up to one outlet and they pay for the additional cost in a little over one holiday season.
Last year, once we did get the lights, it was easy to put them up. I don’t think we got any real amount of snow worth talking about until sometime in February. Not so this year. It isn’t Thanksgiving yet and we just had our second decent snowfall of the season.
One of the lighting decisions we had to make was if we wanted icicle lights for the house or just regular strands. Added cost and the hassle of putting up over 100 feet of lights made the decision pretty easy. Besides, who needs to buy icicle lights when mother nature will do most of the work for you?
Last year, we almost didn’t do anything for Christmas outside of put lights on the house. Kind of at the last moment, we put our fake, pre-lit tree without any decorations on it.
This year, we have a baby to take pictures of by the decorations, so we’re getting on it just a little bit earlier. I figure if all the stores can be in full decoration mode, so can we. We just put light strands on the back deck this evening as it was getting dark. It was a nice day (rather than two feet of snow), so we figured we better get to it while we could.
I guess nobody really waits for Santa at the end of the Macy’s parade anymore to ring in the season, do they?
Literally.
And when that pouring happens to occur at sub-freezing temperatures, well…
Best scene of the storm: watching a guy down our street fire up his gas snow-blower to clean his 15 foot driveway while a mom and two kids shoveled in front of their house across the street. Even Rhiannon was out helping me shovel during Brooklynn’s naps.
Even Brooklynn took a trip outside. We don’t really have baby-sized appropriate winter clothing, mostly due to the fact that she’s not really old enough to appreciate the snow. For her, it’s just bright and cold. So we wrapped her up in a blanket and took her outside for a minute to get a photo.
Yes, she’s actually sitting in a snow pile from shoveling. She’s that hardcore about photo opportunities.
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