A Week of Winter

For over a week, everyone has been talking about what a bad storm Texas was going to get hit with this past Tuesday...and, for the first time since we've lived here, I actually think that all the weather forecasters' predictions were right!  (Usually they go on and on warning about "arctic blasts" that are never much colder than freezing.)  I woke up at 4:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning to what sounded like a hurricane!  (I've never experienced a hurricane, but this was what I imagined one would sound like.)  It was sleeting, thundering, and so, so windy.  I was supposed to go into school that day, but Keller (along with over 150 other districts in and around DFW) had already cancelled for the day. 

 By 8:00 that morning, our driveway was a solid sheet of ice.  And, even though we had a -2 degree windchill, Isaac and I still went outside to explore all the ice that covered our driveway and yard.  After a half hour, I dragged Isaac inside, even though he was throwing a fit crying to stay outside. 

We drank a lot of hot chocolate this week!

Best of all, Dave came home around 4:00 on Tuesday afternoon and was home all day Wednesday, too! 

We didn't have a sled, but Dave rigged this up to pull Isaac around in....he loved it! And, our driveway was still so icy that Isaac actually had a pretty good ride!

I'm pretty sure we set several records this week with school being cancelled for 4 days in a row along with over 100 hours below freezing.  Even though we didn't have a lot of snow, all the streets were covered in ice.  This is Fort Worth, so we don't have snow plows or sand trucks.  Basically, everything shuts down when it's as icy as it was this past week. 

Dave went into work again on Thursday.  But, early on Friday morning we had several more inches of snow, so he was home with us again on Friday.  Our neighbor had seen the picture of Dave pulling Isaac around in the makeshift sled on Facebook, so she offered to let us use a real sled.  :)

I didn't mind being cooped up inside all week at all.  Dave built a fire every morning, and Isaac and I worked on lots of "projects" around the house...making Valentine's, working on a few little decorating projects, organizing the bedroom that will be the next nursery, and finishing paperwork for our adoption homestudy update, which was yesterday afternoon.

And, we knew that everything must be getting back to normal late on Friday because we heard/saw airplanes again.  (We heard on the news that DFW had cancelled over 2000 flights this past week.) 

Here's Isaac pointing them out to us.  :)

 This was quite a week of winter for us Texans...and, though it's not supposed to be anything like this past week, the forecast is calling for snow again this Tuesday and Wednesday!