On Hold

Having no transportation is really getting to me. I feel like everything I need or want to do has been put on hold. I spent today van shopping with Wayne. Nothing good so far but we did get to have a nice lunch out. I have a couple of things to look at tomorrow, maybe I'll get lucky and then we can do something interesting so I'll have something to write about. In the meantime here are some silly pictures.

      Mahaley and Rosie

                                                                    Baby in a bag

          

Freedom!

We left the house today!
 We had a bit of slipping and sliding at the end of our driveway but everything else was clear. Wayne and I went shopping for a new van this morning, but no luck:(  In the afternoon I took the kids' friends home, Jamie went to his Uncle Jason's to play video games, we borrowed Aunt Kim's van and we girls had an evening out. Mahaley, Emma, Leah, Betsy, Rosie and I made a Target run and then stopped for Chinese. We were having such a good time that we spent two hours at the restaurant.
Now I'm off to hunt up some car ads, more searching tomorrow; wish me luck!

Day Three

(This was really written on Wednesday, I just got distracted when posting it)
I got to go to the grocery store today! Yay. The poor kids still haven't got to leave the house. Not only do we not have our van but I wouldn't want them to be out on the icy roads. They're having some friends over tomorrow, that should help.
It's supposed to be up to forty degrees by the weekend, we're keeping our fingers crossed.

Trapped: Day Two

We're suffering from a little "snow madness" which has resulted in lots of bickering and a few physical altercations. Soothing tempers with hot chocolate has worked so far.
 Food is still holding out but we might run out of milk and sugar if we're not rescued soon.
Laundry soap is GONE, toilet paper reserve is very low.

We might not make it.

Snowed In

 Day One:
  The snow is five inches and rising.
 We can't see our driveway.
No cars passed on our road today, leading me to believe the entire road is impassable.
 Our food is holding out, we are currently working on storing up enough body fat to survive. Biscuits, fried potato cakes, chips and cheesecake seem to be the best way to go.
The kids are foraging for clean snow to make snow cream, that should help stretch our resources.
 We are currently staying warm with lots of clothing layers and blankets, we should be ok if the laundry detergent lasts through washing the uncountable loads of snowy outdoor clothes.
Hope everyone else is having a great snow day!          

R.I.P

I took down our Christmas tree today and in my world that means the holiday are officially over. Goodbye 2010!  Also goodbye to my overworked, under appreciated van . I think it has gone to automotive heaven. I took my sister, Kim, to her neurologist's today and on the way home it blew a gasket or cracked a block or lost its head or something like that. We had to walk the rest of the way home, in the cold, after my poor sister got a bunch of needles poked into her head, ON HER BIRTHDAY. I'm so sorry Kim, Happy Birthday anyway.

Happy New Year!

We are not big New Year's Eve partiers, too old and boring I guess;) We are however big eaters so we spent New Years Day at Wayne's parents eating a traditional southern New Years Day meal. Collard greens, fried salt pork, black-eyed peas and corn bread. Yum! Brings you wealth, good health and luck in the new year. Happy New Year everyone!