Snowed In

Our Christmas celebration this year was interesting. While the kids awaited the arrival of Santa, we watched the longest snow storm in the history of Leslie blow in. First we were advised to not drive around because of ice. Then blowing snow. Really? What was your first indicator mister meteorologist? Could it be the 6' snow drifts on my patio? Hmmmm.

On Christmas Eve morning, Max woke us up explaining it was 8:01 and "Happy Christmas Eve!" And what kind of breakfast would we like him to fix us. Yes, Santa has favorites, and you are it right now, kid. Good work.

We came downstairs to find a disarray of paper and crafty cuts all over the kitchen table and the floor because they'd been up early making us paper snowflakes and cards for us.

By 9:30a.m. I'd not had enough coffee, and still not washed my face nor brushed my teeth. We played A Christmas Story version of Monopoly. I hadn't cleaned yet. I hadn't cooked or baked anything yet. And I didn't care. So far, it was the Best. Christmas. Ever.

The upside was we made it out to the coolest Christmas Eve church gig ever. JulzHOLLA! and Sven invited us to join them at their church for a dinner theater. It was special to share it with Sven and JulzHOLLA! and their family. The dinner theater was a five course meal with a play about the birth of Jesus as told by the proprietor of the Bethlehem Inn. It was fun, light, brilliant and yummy.

The snow started early afternoon on Christmas Eve, and it stopped four days later. Imagine, if you will, a hurricane-like weather radar, but instead of high winds and rain, we have high winds and snow. Lots of snow. Snow is pretty until you get out to shovel it. Still, we had fun doing it, and we weren't driving anywhere, so no gym, no workout. I wonder how many calories I burned shoveling snow?

On Christmas Day, we woke up to a fantastic White Christmas. With all the snow we shoveled off the driveway we built up a sweet sledding/snowboarding ramp. Christmas is the one day of the year (okay, there might be a few others) that I get a nap. Because really, the kids wake up at 5a.m. and I oblige, I mean, it's Christmas right?

"Here's some toys. Mommy's going to take a nap."

When I woke up, it had snowed more. Lots of churches cancelled their Christmas Eve services as well as Christmas Day services. We weren't going anywhere. Not even to the Chinese restaurant for the Christmas Dinner. We rescheduled our trip to Gramma's.

And although I got a little bit of cabin fever, for the most part, I was trapped in the house with my favorite people. We've been laughing and playing for 4 days straight.

Today the roads were cleared and we took full advantage, and drove to the gym. We're happy to be able to safely travel around town again. But I couldn't have picked a better time to get trapped and snowbound with this family.

That's how I roll.