December 20, 2009

December 20, 2009

Dear Family and Friends,

We survived the blizzard of 2009, but more on that later. Here’s a quick rundown of our week. Monday was a normal day, but for FHE we went to Costco and got some prizes for some people. We talked about gratitude for others.

Tuesday was another uneventful day. We are still doing our breathing treatments four times a day. That night I went to mutual. We were combined with the Young Men and went caroling to some families in our ward. Somehow I got put in charge of starting us out at each house. After a few houses one of the young women said “Sister Clark you must be a soprano.” When I insisted that I wasn’t she said, “Why are you starting the songs so high then?” Umm, because I am not a trained singer, and I don’t know what I am doing?

Wednesday I took B-man back to the doctor. He is getting better. We are also able to cut down on breathing treatments, and we are almost done with the antibiotics too. Hooray! We went to our clubhouse to go see Santa. B-man was pretty excited and told Santa that he wanted a lot of Lego's. The rest of Wednesday and Thursday were pretty quiet. Wednesday night B-man went to see Santa at our community clubhouse. J was freaking out about all the noise and people, so we went home.

Friday afternoon the big outing of the day was to Costco and the grocery stores. Between Christmas, and a storm that was supposed to hit on Saturday the stores were a ZOO. It was slightly a nightmare. People were buying tons of stuff. Sadly I kept forgetting things (the hazards of shopping without a list) and so I made a few emergency trips later that night. M met us at Costco, so we still had a good afternoon and evening despite the traffic and crowds.

Saturday morning we woke up to a lot of snow. It kept snowing too. All day long the snow just dumped. B-man was so excited. We all were. B-man played outside, built a fort, sledded, etc. I spent my time cooking and baking. We had hot cider when they came in for lunch, and had just a fun snowy day. M cleared off the car and tried to unbury the cars as much as possible before the snow got icy and hard to remove. We heard about three in the afternoon that school was cancelled for Monday and Tuesday, and about thirty minutes later we heard that church was cancelled. We also spent some time rearranging furniture in our basement. The layout is much better now. We still have too much furniture for the space, but at least now I can be in the room without having a panic attack.

Today has been a strange Sunday. Today our “ox” was in the snow. We spent the morning just relaxing and having fun. M made waffles, and we enjoyed the sunshine and feet of snow. We had two feet of snow fall in one day. It was amazing to look at! A little before lunchtime the guys headed outside to finish digging out the cars. It was amazing to see all our neighbors outside working on shoveling snow around. One problem is where you put all that snow… The snow from one car and parking space makes a huge pile. M also helped our neighbor. They are getting back today from being out of town, and was being nice. When J was in bed I headed out to help shovel too. It was a lot of work, but fun too. It’s a nice way to get to know your neighbors. B-man loved being outside all day. I had to come in at a certain point and work in the house. M finally came in frozen like a popsicle. He helped me finish the last preparations for dinner, and then we had some friends over for dinner. I was trying out two new recipes, and the dinner recipe could either have been great or terrible, so needed some brave people. After dinner we got the boys in baths and then in bed. They were all tired after such a busy, work day.

We love the snow. It is so fun, and since we don’t need to be anywhere and can stay home it is a lot of fun. M just found out that work is cancelled tomorrow too. I wish we could go somewhere fun! Who doesn’t love a huge snowstorm right before Christmas?

We love you all!

R, M, B-man, and J