We spent the entire day yesterday indoors. The kids begged me a few times to go outside and play in the snow, but I did not give in :). We spent a lot of time watching people and cars from our window. Lots of people shoving huge amounts of snow and lots of cars getting stuck in the snow. There was even a fire engine that got stuck trying to make a right turn on the next street. It was quite an ordeal watching neighbors and firemen trying to get the truck unstuck.
CPS announced early yesterday afternoon that classes would resume today, so we knew early that the chance of another snow day was gone. Jeremy got home around 3:30 but did not get into the house until close to 5:30. He and Samuel spent the two hours clearing out the parking spots for our vehicles. It gets pretty intense around the city when there is a significant amount of snow on the roads. Parking is always a pain, but when there is snow it is a nightmare. So, when you spend the time cleaning out your spot you put any item you can find in the spot so when you return you still have your spot. You just move the items and pull into your clean spot. As a whole this practice is respected, but you do have a few jerks on the block that might decide to move your items and take advantage of your clean spot. During our terrible winter last year parking and leaving my parking spot was a huge source of anxiety for me. I got stuck several times and crazy situations where I was in the middle of the street just spinning my wheels and it really stressed me out. I am so thankful that this morning when I left to take to the kids to school the person on front of me had already left which made it extra easy to just pull out on the road. I did have to stand in snow up to my knees to get into my truck, but I made it out of my spot. I got out of my spot, put on my flashers, got the chairs out of the back, put them in my space and then prayed that nobody would decide to move my chairs. Slowly got the kids to school and was horrified at the road conditions in front of the school! Plowing in front of schools should be a pretty high priority! Got the kids to school safely and then I had to head to Wal-mart for some groceries and the Wal-mart parking lot was the most dangerous part of my day. I also think there should be a new exercise program where you try to push grocery carts through an unplowed parking lot! It was really hard work! I got back home and thankfully my chairs were still in my spot and I was able to move them out of the way and then pull in my spot! I was so excited that it went so smoothly, but good grief it is exhausting! It is kind of cold today, but I am decided that I am going to walk to get the kids from school today. Getting in and out twice in one day is just too much work :)!
The anxiety of getting the kids to school and back and another situation that I may mention on another day kept me awake most of the night. I get so mad at myself for being so ridiculous about a million things that will not even happen. It is insane how quickly the events in my mind escalate into a full blown catastrophe. Around 2:00 this morning I had to give myself a pep talk and finally fell asleep humming my favorite hymn. I am thankful that the events of this morning did not play out as they did in my mind last night. I am thankful that the God of this universe cares about the small things in my life. It might seem silly to others that the issue of parking would cause me so much anxiety, but God doesn't care how simple the issue and I am thankful that He can be glorified in the every details of life.
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| Around the neighborhood this morning |
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| Firetruck stuck |
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