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Another holiday storm!

Posted on March 17, 2007 8:32 pm by TheAngelForever

Okay Mr. Groundhog. . . you best go and hide. I think a lot of people in the northeast are quite upset with you. Here it is days before spring and we have another storm that dumps 15+ inches of snow on our area. WTH?!?! The sad part is on Wednesday it was almost 70 degrees here and the snow from Valentine’s Day was nearly gone. Now we have to start all over again. I joked with JL and asked him if groundhog is kosher!

Yes, so St. Patrick’s Day now has a snow storm for 2007. In our area the airport officially measured in with 15 inches, but I think we had a little more here. Poor JL busted his rear digging us out. At least this time the roads were plowed, but man what a mess that was. Below are some photos from today.

Our paper outside this morning:

The cars buried in snow:

JL’s attempt to dig out where the plows kept coming by:

NHL playing in his sled:

Now it will be fun to see what holiday the next storm comes for this winter season . . . mind you by then it will technically be spring.

C’est Moi

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Results are in . . . sort of.

Posted on February 23, 2007 9:42 pm by TheAngelForever

Here’s an update on my 3 hour glucose test from yesterday.

The nurse in the morning said she would call me back when she had the results (this was at 9:40). At 2:30 this afternoon I had no call back and was angry about it. I asked JL to call the office to see what he could find out. With going back to school Monday I need to know if I have to get an appointment with a specialist or not. The nurse immediately took his call. She told him that she didn’t call since she needed one of the doctors to go over the results since values were high. She said they would get back to me Monday. I went crazy and insisted to know more. I wanted my numbers. So DH was sweet after listening to me rant and called them back.

Not long after this the nurse called me back. She said she was sorry about the communication mess up. Apparently she told JL something wrong. I didn’t technically fail the test. Only one of my values was elevated above the cut off (the 2 hour mark – and the numbers were fishy), but she needs a doctor to weigh in on what they want to do.

I told her that I vaguely recall that it was the 2 hour mark last time that I didn’t make it by and said they may want to look at those past results to see. She said they would call me Monday and let me know what the plan of action is with the doctors.

As I told her I’m going to be even more careful than I have been with my diet. I do eat more carbohydrates than I should (since they don’t make me sick), but I don’t eat straight sugar after fasting like that. If I have a bagel it’s a whole grain one and I put low sugar PB on it for protein most times. In addition to this we always do whole grain pasta with LOTS of veggies, and high fiber whole grain breads. Since my mother is diabetic (and so is JL’s) we are very careful.

On that note I am off to try to relax and take care of NHL who apparently now thinks that you need to get sick when people come here from Buffalo and not just when we go to Buffalo. His temperature is rising and was 100.6 just now. . . so I gave him motrin and will see what happens.

C’est Moi

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Time to dig out!

Posted on February 15, 2007 10:49 pm by TheAngelForever

NHL decided that he wanted to go outside and help daddy to dig out of the snow (this was JL’s 2nd of 3 trips out today). This of course meant that my almost 7 month pregnant self had to waddle out too. So just before noon we went outside for about an hour. NHL had a blast he helped JL to dig out the driveway and one of the cars to start. Every so often the little guy wanted me to drag him up and down the street in his sled. Since it was so easy to pull I was nice and gave him several rides.

Eventually I went into the house to get the keys for the car so JL could move the cars and clean more of the driveway. At almost 1:00 NHL came in for soup and JL followed about 30 minutes later. He finished one of the cars and went back out at 4:40 tonight to finish the other car and rake the roof. We already have two ice damns that have formed. We are just hoping that we do not have a repeat performance from last year where one of them let water in and it leaked throughout the house. *sigh*

Here are some photos from earlier today.

This is our house with the approximately 19″ of snow:

JL & NHL in front of one of the snow banks by the road:

NHL shoveling some snow for daddy:

NHL working in the snow again:

Time to get into the sled:

Ready to ride:

Check out those big blue eyes and rosey cheeks:

The cars are all uncovered now and we are going to sleep well (especially JL) from all of the fresh air. Tomorrow should be interesting for everyone after two days home.

C’est Moi

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Storm photos – from yesterday

Posted on February 15, 2007 1:05 pm by TheAngelForever

Here are some photos of the boys and outside at about 2:00 and 5:00 yesterday afternoon. It looks even worse outside now. The snow banks are SO high it’s unreal.

JL and NHL start the adventure outside:

NHL tests out his shovel:

Our rose bush almost completely eaten by the snow:

The cars almost covered with the white evil stuff thanks to drifts:

Another view of the cars:

More to come later I’m sure. . . especially if NHL wants to brave the cold and play outside.

C’est Moi

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Another snow day

Posted on February 15, 2007 11:05 am by TheAngelForever

It’s 6:00 now and at 5:30 I saw my school and pretty much everything else is closed. I also just received my official phone call at about 5:45 telling me the good news. THANK GOODNESS! Our neighbors are outside and they are having a bitch of a time moving this stuff using snowblowers, so I don’t know how JL is going to do it. I just talked to my father and he said it is a MESS!

If you are in the area stay home, safe and warm!

C’est moi