Creation Month at Preschool

Abby made this at Preschool. Cool, huh?

Random Thoughts on Snow

(Picture from here)

As you can tell from my last couple of posts, we have been getting a ton of snow in the last week or so here. So far, I haven't really had to get out in it unless I want to. Until today. Abby has/had preschool today and even thought the local schools were on a 2 hour delay, we had preschool as normal. Thus, Carrie had to get out in the snow. Yuck. I can't really complain after growing up in the snow belt of Lake Michigan, but it just feels different here. Bigger city, I guess. That said, I had some random thoughts while driving Abby to preschool this morning:

• I am glad I drive a SUV. Granted, mine is technically a crossover, but it is still higher up than a car, which means that I don't scrape bottom on all the chunks dropped by the rest of the cars. Yay Murano!
• I am sooo glad that I get to park in a garage. No cleaning snow off the car before I go places. EVERY snow I am thankful for this as I see people who did a half-a$$ job of cleaning off their cars.
• Shoveling all the excess snow from your driveway into the street isn't very nice. It just makes a big ol' pile that others (like me) have to drive around.
• Looking out your window in a subdivision gives you really NO idea what the road conditions are like. Our streets are generally about 10 times worse than the main roads.
• Sometimes the well traveled streets aren't really that much better than other side streets. -and sometimes they are worse (as I found out this morning).
• Bad wind makes everything worse when it comes to snow. Bleck.

Lots of thoughts for one drive to preschool.

I've got the hook up

How awesome is this? Friends from church who come snowblow my driveway while my husband is out of town? Rock on. What a great support network!

Snowed in

We're snowed in (temporarily).

Kinda pretty.

Last night, we decided to snuggle in as the snow fell. Luckily we didn't have to be out for anything and had made a grocery trip right before the snow hit. We lit some candles and the fireplace. We also brought out Abby's air mattress and the girls had so much fun playing and watching TV this way.

Hard Work

Lily's birthday was a momentous day, but not just because she turned one. My, what I feared was delayed, daughter waited until the actual day of her birthday to crawl for the first time. What I haven't shared as much, was how worried I was that she wasn't crawling. Everyone makes a really big deal about crawling ("Is she crawling yet?" "Is she walking yet?" yada yada), until you say you are worried, and then they make it seem like a not-big-deal ("Oh, she'll do it in her own time." "She just has her own way of getting around." "She's just content." "You'll have plenty of time to chase her around soon enough."). But it is. ALL the books and websites say that your baby should be crawling by 12 months. Did you know that if you're kid doesn't crawl, they will suck at reading, and never amount to anything?

That said, what does my kid do? She crawls for the first time on her birthday at her party. Yup. Seriously. She's been practicing quite a bit since then, but it does get tiring as you see...