I can count on one hand the number of days I've had off due to weather. Not anymore, though, because tomorrow will be day three of this week. It's a little mind boggling. Equally so when I walk by the window and catch the white abyss that is still our snow covered yard. We live in Alabama, y'all. This is nuts.
I was sitting in my principal's office Monday {not in trouble!} when she got the news that Tuesday we'd be taking a snow day. I squealed just like my kiddos did when I told them the news. Not because I actually thought there'd be snow-- I didn't, just because I really enjoy a day off. I stopped by the grocery store to grab a few onions and a hunk of cheese for tomato soup and laughed at the hoards of silly people buying milk, bread, batteries and beer.
Monday night, after watching the news, it became apparent we'd be experiencing some type of winter weather. I still wasn't overly concerned. We've heard those forecasts before and seen nothing. I did, however, negotiate an earlier hair appointment for Reese. Because I have priorities and he looked like Albert Einstein.
Tuesday morning Lofton headed to work and I lounged around until Reese and I needed to leave to get his hair cut. It was cold and raining, but again nothing alarming. The alarm began when I came out thirty minutes later and my car was frozen solid and it was still raining. Only now it was frozen rain. I did what any smart girl would do and called my husband and asked him to come home.
The day unfolded from there. More and more icy rain, a husband that couldn't come home from work, and a little panic starting to creep in.
Obviously we're fine. And finally the rain turned to snow, which was happily welcomed by a certain five year old. We are, though, counting our blessings that we have two furnaces. The one in the back of the house isn't working and it's a brisk fifty degrees back there. Reese piled in for a slumber party last night, which as you can imagine meant Lofton and I got very little sleep. It appears we will be suffering a similar fate tonight.
All this to say, Winter Storm Leon is certainly one we won't forget.
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