Still musing over the extremes we’ve experienced in the last week as far as weather goes ~ at least an 80 degree temperature drop and from zero to about 3 feet of white stuff on the ground. Monday morning brought low temps of -15 degrees.  That night I went to meet a friend for dinner, and in the course of my one hour drive to meet her, I watched the digital temperature reading in my mini van go from 15 degrees above zero to 1 degree below zero.  Yikes!

 Wednesday afternoon I had a bunch ‘o boys over here who made the most of the snow with their Airsoft guns.  Bunkers were built and an all-out war was had.  They didn’t last more than an hour, though, because tromping around in that depth of snow is very tiring.  It’s up past their knees in most places.  Rations of hot cocoa and popcorn awaited their return indoors.

 And then it snowed some MORE.  It started last night while we were all gathered at church for our mid-week potluck dinner and small group Bible studies.  By the time we woke up this morning there were about 6 more inches on the ground.  So….another round of shoveling ~ all done by Robert again this morning.  I was glad we at least made efforts the day before to get the driveway nice and clear ~ especially the end of the driveway where Mr. Snowplow likes to leave tall peaks of HEAVY, DIRTY snow and ice from the main thoroughfare on which we live.  I think I was asleep before my head hit the pillow that night.  Shoveling snow is hard work

 But I did find this note on my pillow before my head hit it.  Poor little girl has to remind the “tooth fairy” to leave her some cash in place of her tooth.  It can be difficult to keep up with the tooth-loss-rate around here! Would you believe there was another note under her pillow with the tooth that indicated she would like the tooth to remain under her pillow?  Yep, she likes to keep ’em. 

In other news, a few really fun packages arrived in my mail this week!  Someone gave me an Amazon gift card for my birthday, and I could hardly wait to order a couple of books I’ve had my eye on.  I think it was my friend Jess who turned me on to Christianity Today’s blog for women ~ Her.meneutics.  Last month they listed some of their favorite books BY women.  I wanted to order ALL of them, but I’m starting with the ones that appeal to my current thoughts, stages, and struggles.   Can’t wait to tell you about them, but don’t hold your breath, because my reading load is quite heavy right now because of my Challenge 2 class.  A Passage to India, The Gift of Music, Classical Music for Dummies, Biology, etc.  Plus, I’m really putting effort into reading my Bible this year.  Have been in a good habit for a while now, but wanting to read many whole books this year.  Working on Genesis and Acts now and loving it.  

(Oh ~ and I still haven’t told you about my new Bibles.  Soon….)

Another exciting package came this week, too, but you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see that one!