Life + Snow

Just taking a moment to document how much more intense life gets when you throw in some snow!!!! Some of the things we've dealt with over the years.

*Wake up to the furnace not working- eeeek! Luckily we got it fixed.

*Our radiant floor in the family room works on a boiler, whose pilot light is finicky. To fix it, you need to squeeze into a spot on the floor in the basement. Lay down on concrete. Grab a candle lighter. Turn a knob, get the gas to build up and come at the pilot with a flame lit. Turn the knob and hope it stays. Then jump up because once it catches, it kind of attacks with blue flame and you better not be too close! Repeat every few days.

*Getting to the stores isn't as easy. Lots of snow, slush, a detached garage means bringing bags back and forth in your boots, setting them inside the door, and yelling at the dog to get her nose out of them.

*And then there's the alley, which is gravel and not plowed. And all the intersections where cars get stuck. And the second car of ours that is not as good in deep snow as the SUV.

*Walking Logan into kindergarten means parking, walking about a block through an unplowed playground, and for some reason it's a wind tunnel. Twice Sylvie has had a meltdown crying about her fingers being frozen. Today we bought heavier gloves for her finally.

Seems like everything about winter takes longer, is more difficult and more intense. Between intensely cold days you don't want to leave the house to waking up at the crack of dawn to shovel, it's a lot of work! So when we hear snow is coming, the kids get all excited, and I just want to hybernate!