Blizzard of the Decade

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The news has been warning us of this impending storm for nearly a week. It finally hit us Tuesday night around 1am. The girls at work watched Komo 4 Doppler to see the storm creep towards our region. Our HUC even went home so that she didn't have to drive in the storm. The snow didn't stop our labor checks from coming in...guess babies don't care how cold it gets, or how bad the roads are. The hospital always fails to clean off the side roads and it causes major problems for nurses when we try to go home. I think they deliberately do this so that we will stay at the hospital and be available to work extra, or so that we don't call in sick for the next shift. I wasn't going to stay and sleep on first medical, where they saved us a block of rooms. My mom graciously said she would pay for a room at a hotel (as she heard me screaming at another car, "you better not slide into me!").I made it home though. Cops were in the ditches, cars were parked on the freeways, but I just kept going "slow and steady" like my dad has told me all these years. I felt a sense of pride when I made it home safe. Now I have 7 days off, and the snow has turned into ice. I really wanted to play in the snow....with the kids, and make some awesome snowman. Guess maybe just a winter walk now....! Too bad we can't have a cup of hot chocolate!

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