rawr.

this month is marching in like a lion for sure around here!

the storm that hit the midwest and midatlantic was just supposed to give us a little wind and maybe a couple inches of snow. it snowed all day on thursday, but nothing accumulated on the roads (just our driveway, where it took me 4 times to get my car up and in!). it was supposed to start sticking sometime thursday night when it got below freezing, but they were only calling for 3-5 inches around the boston area.

yesterday morning we woke up and zane turned the tv on to check if there was school. a few minutes later, the phone rang and it was his district calling off school. i kept the tv on for a little while longer looking for my school. around 6, i tried to go back to sleep, but got up around 6:15 and went downstairs. i looked outside, it was snowing like crazy and the roads hadn't been plowed. i kept the news on as i made coffee and waited to see my school listed. at 7, i realized they weren't calling off school and they weren't even giving us a delay.

luckily since zane was home, he was able to drive me and the girls to our schools in his jeep. my van would never have made it.

basically it snowed until around 3pm yesterday and we got over a foot. the roads were still covered when i left school at 12:30, and the parking lot wasn't any better. i read emails from work about people shoveling their cars out of the parking lot and needed help pushing their cars from their spots.

apparently this storm was unprecedented and all the forecasters are saying that no one could have predicted what happened, because of the unusual way the storm wrapped the moisture from the ocean and threw it back at us. all i can say is that i want spring so badly and turning the clocks ahead tonight is making me giddy. sunset at 6:45?! yay!

side note: this morning i woke up saying to myself "how do you eat an elephant? one bite at a time." (i wish i were kidding). i have so much work to do for my practicum and i can't ignore it anymore. it's exciting to think that i just have a month left, but it's also overwhelming that all i have left is a month.

on another side note: the girls are finally healthy! (i think, fingers crossed!) avery hasn't had a fever and her coughing has been drastically reduced to first thing in the morning and a few times at night. phew! now zanes turn to get healthy.