We've got Snow!!!

Yes that's right Snow! Yay! 11 inches to be exact! 11 inches of perfect packing snow dumped right in our front yard and backyard and sideyard and street and on top of our car and well you get the picture... :-) It all started with an ice storm Saturday night. Which made it practically impossible to have church Sunday morning. So we had sunday school at home. It was mom's week to teach the adult class so we got the full blown completely studied out lesson. She took advantage of the fact that she didn't have a time limit too... Oh while I'm thinking about it, Mom, (my Mom!) told me to get a Facebook. How strange is that? This is even more so. She woke me up at 7:00 on a Sunday morning not to get ready for church but because she wanted me to check my Facebook! Wow! Ok so she had a perfectly good reason for doing it but I wanted the whole wow effect going. Actually my second cousin has a ministry with some soldiers in Iraq and she's got pics and testiminies on her Facebook. There's a catch the only way to see the stuff is to have a facebook and to be on her friends list. So that's the reason. She wanted to use a story in Sunday school class. Anyway Sunday afternoon it started snowing. Huge flakes coming down really fast and it snowed like that for hours. Until that night. We had a break in the snow coming down for maybe an hour or two then it started up again and snowed straight through Monday afternoon at which time it stopped and the sun came out. I woke up with a headache and sore throat Monday morning but if you think that stopped me from going out and spending the whole day playing in the snow like a little kid you are absolutely wrong. We played fox and geese for a long time. (Bethany, Micah, two of the neighbor girls we've been friends with for years, and I) Then we went to Grace and Eliza's (the said neighbor girls) and got warmed up with some hot chocolate and chicken and dumplings. Their mom loves having her kids bring friends home. Then we played bowling on their Wii and headed out for more fun in the snow. We played more Fox and Geese then broke out a sledding path. We slid down the hill for a long time then started a snowball fight. Bethany and Eliza VS. Grace and I. Naturally when you have an 18 and 19 year old taking on two 12 almost 13 year olds the 18 and 19 year old are going to win... I finally headed home after we whipped Eliza and Bethany they didn't take the loss to well. Well I guess I really shouldn't have knocked their snow wall down but they were throwing snow at my camera... Anyway we had fun. The only thing that got cold was my hands. My gloves got soaking wet from making snowballs... Otherwise I was completely warm. What with two long sleeve shirts, one sweatshirt, my heavy coat, two pairs of sweatpants, under a heavy skirt, three pairs of socks and snow boots, not to forget a hat and the hood of my coat plus my gloves I stayed really warm. Once I got back inside I discovered I had a terrible headache, a sore throat, sinus problems, and a low grade fever. So I started pouring in the vitamin C. However, I'm just now finally getting rid of the sicky feeling. Tuesday I had an eye appointment. Now I don't know if any of you have ever been to the eye doctor when you aren't feeling good but it is absolute misery. You go in and sit down in the chair. The optometrist pulls out a flashlight and you are thinking oh no he's going to shine that light in my eyes I've already got a splitting headache and now this but it gets worse. Not only does he shine the light in your eyes he gets right in your face to do it. Now I don't like it when people get in my face and when I'm sick I absolutely hate it. Now some people would go ahead and breathe in this guys face giving him all the germs they currently have in their sick body but not me. It doesn't matter that I just brushed my teeth my eye doctor is a nice old man and I really don't want to make him sick so I do the only logical thing I hold my breath. Piece of cake right? Wrong. He took a really long time. Do you know what it's like to sit in a chair with this nice old man in your face shining a bright light into your eyes when you are sick and you're holding your breath till your face turns blue? It's torture absolute complete torture! And then he says now I'm going to look in your other eye. And you have to go through the same process all over again. Aagh! Then he pulls out the machine thingy that goes on your face and starts flipping lenses in front of your eyes and saying this one or this one. When you have a bad headache your eyes take longer to focus. So he flips them back and forth and your poor sick eyes are struggling to keep up. By the time you are finished your headache is 10 times worse than it was to start with. Are you laughing yet. The entire experience was true but told in a way designed to make you laugh. I even find it amusing now that I'm feeling better. ;-) We didn't have church yesterday because our parking lot is completely covered in snow and ice not to mention it is impossible to get into the parking lot with a vehicle as the sno plows went through and the opening to the parking lot is completely stopped with a cork of snow. Anybody want to fight two feet of snow? Neither did our church folks... The majority of which are older people who have trouble falling even when the ground is dry and flat. So mom and dad and I went to Richmond and got our prescriptions filled at Sears they were having a big sale on eyeglasses. So I should have my new glasses in 10-12 days. Yay! Anyway I got to go get supper ready. I'm going to make Chicken Fajitas.