This is my backyard right now. That "frost" on the surface of the chairs is actually a casing of ice about a half of an inch thick. The snow, which has be falling all week, has a little frozen skating rink on top of it. And Christmas is canceled.School was closed all week.
Jonah's Christmas program at pre-school was canceled.
Christmas shopping is not happening.
Church was canceled today (don't even bad Catholics go to church the Sunday before Christmas?)
Yesterday Jonah and I ventured outside for a while to get some essentials. The rations of bread and Diet Coke were running low. Can you imagine what would have happened if we had run out of Diet Coke this weekend and were ice-bound? Scary....Other than that, I have left the house about 4 times times this week and Amy has probably been out twice. That is a long time to be inside with two toddler boys. We've played a lot of Candy Land, and a lot of Zingo and a lot of Super Smash Brothers.
I guess we should just be grateful that we are warm and safe and haven't lost power...yet. And we are. But it does suck a little joy out of the season when you spend the week before Christmas sitting around the house looking at each other.
I think today we will make Christmas cookies. And then eat them all, because we can't go outside to deliver them to anyone.
