Well. If this blog had sound, you would be putting your hands over your ears right now. I am screaming in my head! First, we were promised 6-10 inches of accumulated snow. We are lucky if we have half an inch. The ground was just too wet to allow the snow to stick right away. I am not a big fan of snow, but I really wanted my kids to get to play in it. This was supposed to be the most snow I have seen in about 17 years! Oh well.
Secondly, Heath and I decided if we were snowed in today, we may as well do our taxes. So we did. It only took about 4 hours to do, but I hate that sort of thing. This year we used the H&R Block TaxCut software and I am pretty sure we will go with that again next year too. It was really easy to work with, and I was impressed.
Thirdly, Kalyn is so naughty! She continues to find pens/pencils/crayons/markers (from where, I really do not know) and draw on things she is not supposed to. Today already she has used a marker to draw on her tv, herself, and her Rugrats DVD. We also discovered that she has carved scratches into our brand new 42 inch flat screen television. Thats right...scratch-es. As in multiple. I don't know when she finds the time or how she finds the tools. I see a writing utensil, I pick it up and put it someplace very high. I am telling you--she has a stash hidden somewhere only 3 year olds can find. On top of her artistic endeavors today, she poured an entire bottle of bath-paint on her sister. And no...her sister was not in the bathtub at the time. Augh!
Other than my frustrations, things are great. I get Heath home with us all day because school was cancelled, and I live in a nice warm house out of the wind and cold! I can pad around the house in sweats with my hair unbrushed (though clean). I am so happy about getting the taxes done, I am trying to think of a way to get Heath to take us out to eat. The roads aren't bad.
For those of you who have never lived in a place where snow is rare, let me explain something to you. When it snows/ices in Arkansas...people FREAK out. There is a mad dash for the store where people load up on the essentials because they feel like the world is ending. We went to the store last night to get out of the house and to pick up some more milk for Keali. I decided to do a bit of light food shopping too. I got the very last loafs of bread (of the type we buy, though most of the other bread was gone too), the last bag of hot dog buns, and the very last boxes of mac and cheese. Most of the meats were gone, as were the cheeses, and dairy products. Eggs were sparse too. It is funny really. We weren't in panic mode (since we had plenty of food storage at home), and it was fun to watch people pushing their carts frantically in search of food staples. Poor poor people.