Snow? Did I ask for snow? Uh, I guess I did...

We have had 2 weeks of crazy amounts of snow and ice. The first round gave Sky 4 days off from school in one week and kept our car securely blocked in on the street for days covered in a nice sheet of ice that was oh so much fun to scrape off. I had decided to call my work the day it was really coming down and our main office was closed so it was very difficult to finally get a hold of the nurses. They had no clue whether or not the doctor would cancel clinic so I got ready to go in. John had to go to the restaurant so we walked up to the bus hoping it would be running. It came and we got on then my phone rang. It was the one nurse saying they just called a level 3 for the city so clinic was canceled because you are not supposed to be on the roads. Ugh. I decided to stay on the bus to downtown with John and walk to his work so I could pee. Keep in mind walking on this amount of snow with an ice layer was not easy and I was soaked. John walked me back to the bus and I went home. It was a fun adventure. We got a couple sledding sessions in and a bit of snowskating here and there. Almost a week later, we had finally dug a trench out to the street so we could get over the huge snow barrier the plows created and into the car fairly easily. The next day the forecast said maybe 2 inches in the afternoon. By the time I got off work it was about 4 inches with 4 more still coming down. The roads were terrible and John had the car with a flat tire. Luckily a co-worker of mine said she’d drive me home after her doctor was finished. We slid all over but made it and John had gotten the donut tire on the car. We decided it would take us 2 hours to drive to the tire place in the traffic so we stayed put. I’m glad Sky walks to school right now because buses were taking hours to get the kids home and some were getting stuck or in accidents. It was a mess. Sky was off school yet again the next day. John drove me to work because it was so sketchy. Since the snow pile was even taller now, we had to once again dig a trench to the street to get in the car.

Now that it is a week later and we have had some 50 degree days, the snow has melted to reveal about 20 piles of dog poo in my yard and the realization that for 2 weeks we were parked about 2 feet from the curb. Please please, I beg, no more snow!