Saturday Evening Post

It is Saturday night and all is getting ready to be wrapped up for the day. I feel about as tired as this lady looks.

We shoveled snow today. It was a lot of snow. I think that hopefully this week will have been the last snow for us for the year.

Right now it is only 10 degrees outside, but I have heard that it is supposed to be up on the 50's here by Wednesday. That sounds good to me. I'm taking this next week off of work because of overtime hours that I carried over from last year that I needed to use before March 15th. So the goal is to keep forging on with a home renovation project that I've been working on since November. Damn projects!

Tomorrow morning we will be heading off to church. We have nursery duty- again. It seems a bit odd to me that they mostly have the people with children nursery age that work the nursery in rotation. You would think that they would reserve the work for those without nursery age kids. We have to drive 20 minutes to church, so when we get there it just seems odd to ge there to watch our own kids with all the others.

When the weather gets better I think that rather than going to church it would just be so much funner to just go hiking or fishing or something like that. Sometimes it is better to just go do your own thing without being told what to do.

Well, it's late and I'm sure I'll have more to write about tomorrow.

A Cold Thursday Afternoon

OK, this is going to be my first official, official post on this new blog.

It is butt cold outside and just when I thought it couldn't get any better I found out that I was wrong. While it is true that we are supposed to get yet another 2" of snow tomorrow, the temps are supposed to be up in the 40's next week. That is both good and bad in my book.

Good because that means that my furnace will not have to run as hard, or at all. The vehicles will start easier, I don't have to wear as many layers of clothing, etc.

Bad because that will mean melting snow which means sloppy roads. It also might mean water dripping in to my basement as it seeps into the ground and comes in through various little cracks that I have in my foundation.

It is staying light out longer though. That is the one thing that I really hate about winter- darkness and short days. I need light. The natural sunlight is pretty much what keeps me from going completely insane...although that is still up for debate among some.

I am looking forward to warmer weather. Now that I have kids I can appreciate the need to get out of the house more. This spring and summer I plan on more visits to the parks, more walks, more bike rides, going camping and fishing. This summer my daughter will be 4 and my son will be 2. Those are great ages for fun.

I just hate being stuck in the house.