Saturday, January 13, 2024

Snowed in

 Welp. I am old enough to hurt my neck and shoulders shoveling snow and be, like, impacted by the discomfort.

 Also! I started tracking my miles to see if I could maybe go 2,024 for 2024, and… probably not? But! I think in a couple of years, I could match my miles to the year with some slow-burn routine tricks, so this year I will track, and maybe by 2027, I will be jogging across the 2,027 finish line. 

( i do not mean it will take me 3 years to go 2,000 miles. I mean it will take me 3 years to figure out how to fit 2,000+ yearly miles into my life. This year, I think I will be closer to 1800).

I think we can leave the house today, which is great because I need lotion for my face, a birthday gift for my MIL, a new broom, and some butter. All very specific and necessary.

Face lotion! I have been using THIS (I got a 1/2 ounce trial size in my giant makeup Christmas box), and I love it, but the price point is steep, which makes me think maybe I should explore other lotions at that price point because if I am going that far in, maybe I need to go all in, you know? But! This give-a-mouse-a-cookie thinking leads me to analysis paralysis, so I am going to Von Maur and coming home with at least the Absolue stuff. Unless Macy’s has a LancĂ´me gift or something. Then I wil go to there and not be distracted by my million other options, SEE? THERE I GO. (Maybe Blue Mercury is the place to start, actually?)

LONG STORY SHORTISH, I need to leave the house today.




Ben and his team of mini Bens are all outside shoveling right now, and a plow went down our street thank goodness, so I have hope!

Minnie didn’t like the blowing snow AT ALL and found it hard to walk through piles that went up to her hips, so she mostly had a craft day:





With many costume changes

Ben’s office decided to use their MLK holiday Friday since we had a blizzard, so the kids and I are home together on Monday when Cooper returns to FULL ACTIVITY SCHEDULE and dance starts up again. I suspect everyone will be home with me again on Tuesday because it is likely going to be too cold for kids to stand at the bus stop, meaning no school. And then Wednesday and Thursday, I have meetings on campus, so at least I will be leaving the house. I guess it could be too cold on Wednesday, too, but I have 2 built-in babysitters, so I’m not worried about it. It takes a village, even if you have to give birth to that village all by yourself, you know?


I would have taken pictures of the boys, but they were Downstairs People who wore Comfys and played video games all day long. They came upstairs when I was going to bed, hunting up a 4th for a euchre game. Hashtag bro life.
I was shocked the kids had Thursday school since the streets were so terrible it took me 35 minutes to take Coop out for our weekly coffee, and he ended up being SUPER LATE.

I went to Aldi after drop off, which was a fun treat since I don’t usually remember to go to there


Then I grabbed Minnie from school to find that she made me a book mark **heart eyes**



AND WE HAVE BEEN AT HOME EVER SINCE.

Cozy, yes, but I am ready to put on people clothes and do people things again.

Hope you are warm and well-snacked, friends.









22 comments:

  1. I am now a shoveler. That is my life. Until further notice.

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  2. Look at all that snow.

    I laughed SO hard at this line: It takes a village, even if you have to give birth to that village all by yourself, you know? Hahaha. That needs to show up on your next Christmas card or be the title of your book.

    It Takes a Village (Even If You Have to Birth That Village Yourself).

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  3. Anonymous3:24 PM

    This is Lisa. You have SO MUCH SNOW! It gives me flashbacks from last winter when we got 100” of snow. We barely have any this year! We were supposed to get some yesterday but it was TOO COLD FOR IT TO SNOW! The arctic air hit us early so we are in for a long stretch of bitterly cold weather. I won’t leave the house with the kids today since the feels like temps is like -12F. Nope. We will see if school gets called last week for the temps. I really hope it doesn’t because I have a busy week at work. Although having Paul home is easy. I just feel guilty letting him use screens a lot so we can work. But I don’t have a village and didn’t birth one either (that was an amazing line, btw!!!).

    I hope you got out of the house!! Also is that a full sized grinch sitting in that chair?? Taco would love that!!

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    1. It’s a dragon, but Minnie is also very into The Grinch

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  4. I hope you got out and found the perfect face cream! For future reference, if you purchase direct from Lancome online, they have excellent sales, sometimes 30% off of EVERYTHING. So sign up so you can be alerted.

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  5. Dermstore.com is also great! You get a discount on your first order and they send periodic discounts if you subscribe to their emails

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    1. Oooooh I will check it out— thanks!

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  6. We got 25 cm overnight but it stopped snowing earlier than it was predicted to and our neighbour helped us with his snowblower. My brother-in-law and his family are in Edmonton where the temps are predicted to go down to MINUS FIFTY this week (around where Celsius and Fahrenheit nearly converge, dear god). I am nursing my hacking cough today anyway, so am grateful it happened into the weekend.
    Way to go birthing your own village!

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  7. This post makes me wish you lived next door to me. One state away isn't too far at least. I died at birthing your own village. I'm trying to decide if I have enough sitters Monday to cover my daycare peeps whose moms are not teachers, so I can drive Mini back to ND and be back in time to see Curly's b-ball tournament. It's gonna be tight. I love the photo of Minnie in her carseat. Super cute.

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    1. Omg can you even imagine if we were neighbors? So many kids!!!! The bball games and street hockey tourneys could be epic.

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  8. I love your craft table with all the things and Minnie's delight. I hope you got to leave the house!

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  9. My dad gave my husband his old quad with a blade, and so he's been happily pushing around snow. Everyone on our road has their own quads, so it was very funny for a Calgary girl to see all these quads clearing off the drives on our secluded road.

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  10. "It takes a village, even if you have to give birth to that village all by yourself, you know?" HAHAHA. This line is EVERYTHING.

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  11. Wow, everybody is getting so much snow right now. I am glad I don't have to deal with the shoveling, but I wouldn't mind a little winter wonderland :)

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  12. Staying quiet over here since I had the joy of someone doing it all for me (I live in a 1-bedroom apartment, though, so...your village would not fit, LOL).

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