I'm ready for Spring...

I always want snow every winter but it doesn't snow here much anymore. We might get a couple of dustings and sometimes, like Monday, we get maybe 2 to 2 1/2 inches which isn't enough to be called snow in my book. Monday the forecasters said that it would start out raining and by late afternoon we would have flurries and a possible dusting but when Monday came things were completely different. By 10 AM it was snowing so hard that I could barely see my neighbors house and every flake was sticking. They called school out at noon because roads were getting slush covered and slick. The kids finally went back to school this morning and I am happy about that but I am wondering when our next system will come through that will keep the kids our for two or three days. The weird thing is that Sunday it was 60F and very nice outside then Monday the cold and snow came but by this weekend we are supposed to be back up to 60F. All I can say to this is if it is going to snow it needs to do so, I am talking like 8+ inches and get it over with then I want Spring to come rushing right in here.

As a kid the cold temps never bothered me but now it doesn't take much to make me freeze, must be the getting older thing even though I am not that old. I am ready for Spring. I want to smell freshly mowed grass and blooming buds. I want to be able to throw my windows open and let the house breathe, hang my bed sheets out on the line to dry in the sunshine, take long walks, and last but not least I want to wear the lighter clothes that comes with warmer weather, all of this heavy winter garb is about to strangle me to death and I won't even mention the static that zaps me every time I touch something. When I go to the grocery store I am sure that people find me weird because before touching cans or opening the cooler/freezer doors I always clap my hands first to discharge the static that has worked up in me, I do the same before pumping gas but I am not the only one doing that.

I don't know how much I will be around in the next couple of weeks, not that I am around a lot now, because things are going to be very busy here for a little while but after that I should be able to get on regularly.

I hope you all have a good day and stay warm!

Friday once again....

It is Friday once again and I am thankful for that! We have a busy weekend coming up then I am sure the week will drag by since we have a trip planned for Spring Break. I am so ready to blow this taco stand that it isn't even funny.

Today is kind of a bummer after the weather that we have been having lately. Monday we had a high of 72 and today it is cold and rainy and sometime just after dark the rain is expected to turn to snow..all I can say to that is "I will believe it when I see it." I am a lover of snow but here in the East Tennessee Valley we never see it anymore unless it is a dusting and what fun is that? To me a snow is like 8 or more inches, something I can play in, ya know. The last big snow we saw here was the Blizzard of 1993, I am not asking for a blizzard now but a substantial amount of the white stuff would be good.

My daughter has cookie booth at 10 in the morning and if it is cold and snowing they will have to carry on without her because I won't let her go, too much sickness going around already. As for tonight, I think I am going to cook a nice meal of comfort food and keep my family in snuggling in front of the tv or playing games, I just don't want to be out on the road with my kids if the weather does turn bad.

I hope all of you have a wonderful, safe weekend!

I'm alive and well, just busy

I have been so busy I have been too tired to get online in the past week. This is a busy month at church for us so I have been in church 6 out of the past 7 nights. We also have a new addition to our family, Mr. B's younger brother and his wife welcomed their new baby girl, Waylynn, into the world Monday so I was at the hospital Monday and again yesterday to visit. Yesterday the kids were out of school for teacher development day or something like that so I took them to meet their new cousin, I didn't think my 10 yr old son, Ty, was going to let go of her he really liked her. Girl Scout cookie booths have also started for us, they started Friday evening but we will be done with those early this year because the last one that Bethany participate in will be on the 11th because Spring Break is almost upon us, the 17th thru the 21st, so we are leaving either late on the 13th, which is Mr. B's birthday, or early morning on the 14th for a much needed family getaway.

The weather here the past couple of days has been beautiful until yesterday. We hit 72 Monday and it was gorgeous then yesterday it was around 68 but severe storms moved through the area and cooled us down big time. During the bad storms we had high winds, a woman that I somewhat knew was killed when a tree fell over on her mobile home. She had professional tree cutters scheduled to come this week to cut down the trees around the home because just a few months ago a small one fell and hit the back of her mobile home. However, yesterday she had just laid down to rest before going into work when a huge pine tree crashed through the roof onto the bed where she lay. When I heard that she had the tree cutters scheduled all I could think of was that song "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette.

Since having the warmer temps lately I am now ready for Spring more so than before. I have to say that March is the one month that I have a hard time with simply because we have a few warm days then a few really cold ones then it changes again. We are expecting snow flurries by the weekend, now isn't that crazy? I also can't believe that time is changing three weeks early again this year, if I think I am having problems sleeping now then all I need to do is just wait until the weekend when time changes and we lose an hour.

Well y'all I think I will sign off for now and get my day started. Y'all have a great day, be safe, and God Bless!

ice and closures

Good morning! It has been one of "those" mornings and it is only 8:44am so far. The meteorologists kept saying there would be sleet this morning but I don't think anyone thought it would be as bad as it has been. There are wrecks everywhere! We watched for our county to close schools but the closure didn't come so we carried on with our normal school morning routine. As we, the kids and I, were headed out the back door my oldest daughter was first one out. As soon as she hit the steps she slid all the way down them stumbling for some balance because the steps were completely iced over, thank goodness she didn't fall. When we got in our vehicle I called Mr. B to ask why he didn't tell us the steps were iced over because he had been out to start my van for warming and to leave for work.

On our way to school everybody was driving very cautiously to keep from wrecking because there were patches of black ice on the roads. I didn't have a problem until I was dropping my middle child off at the middle school. When you pull in at the middle school you have to drive all the way around the back to the loop to drop students off, the speed limit through there is like 10MPH and I was going about 8MPH when I got on the back loop road, before I knew it I was going sideways. We didn't wreck or anything but it really worried me because some of those cars drive around there like the hounds of hell are on their back bumper and that kind of driving could really pose a problem. We decided that someone needed to go into the school and tell staff that the road had iced over but I was in my pj's still so it wasn't going to be me. Since my daughter goes to school there she decided that since we were early she would go tell them.

So far all schools around us have been closed but ours hasn't. None of the kids are really happy about this but the ice will be gone within two or three hours so I can understand why they aren't closing them. The problem is that we are having a rain/sleet mix. As soon as it hits the ground it is freezing. Our temps are supposed to start rising but as I was taking the kids to school we dropped from 30 degrees to 28 degrees according to the external temperature gage in my Chevy van, that gage is always right on the temp that the weather stations announce. I think that the school system should tell parents that if they are having problems getting their children to school due to the ice to wait a couple of hours and bring them and the tardy won't count against the kid. Mine are already there so I would feel better if they just kept them there since the ice will be gone in a matter of hours anyway. I say that because my kids ride the bus home each day and I don't like to think about my children on a bus going over icy roads also I don't like for my children to miss school unless they are terribly sick or weather conditions are such that it is basically impossible to get there, school is hard enough without having to make up tons of missed work.

So that is how my day has started off. Yesterday was my "FLOOR" day, the day I clean all of my floors and for once I had some help. With the kids being out of school my son stuck around home to help me yesterday. For some reason he LOVES to sweep and mop so I let him help me. I did have to go behind him and re-sweep in a couple of places but at least he was trying and when it comes to cleaning house I will take all of the help I can get.

My son is 10 now and in the past month he has just about ate us out of house and home. We can't keep the child in jeans. We just bought him 8 new pairs of jeans in December and he has already out grown them as far as length goes. When he puts them on it looks like he is waiting for a major flood to come whipping up..heehee! As you know he has severe ADHD, in May I took him off of his meds and he has done really well except for the past month so I think we are going to have to go back on the low dose Daytrana patch just to help him out a bit. His school work is starting to lack more than usual and so is his behavior. If anyone is familiar with ADHD then you know exactly what I am talking about. Since May I have incorporated more "natural" foods into his diet where as before I was making sure that he was eating healthy but those foods still weren't as clean (no chemicals) as those that the natural food stores offer. I will continue to keep up the natural foods but at the same time he needs a little something to help him through. The good thing about the Daytrana patch is that you can control how much goes in to his body.

Well, I need to sign off and get busy with my need-to-get-done list. Y'all have a beautiful day, stay warm and God Bless You!