Almost 37 weeks and waiting

So far we've made it through 5 winter storms (each of which I kept really still with my legs clenched tight). Two were major dumpings - one categorized as a blizzard which took down a major tree limb on my sister's poor little Beetle convertible & another that just dumped a bunch more snow.

Today we had a lovely ice storm and they are calling for more snow on Saturday! I don't think I've seen this much snow in my life, maybe when I lived in New Hampshire for 4 years during college, maybe! My teacher friends are freaking out because they've already had 7 snow days and we are just starting February!

Our poor new gutters have been iced over for a month now!

I can't complain too much because I've just been stuck inside anyhow. Poor Dave is the one walking the mutts 2x a day, guess I'll be on winter duty all next winter (fingers crossed it's a little more mild!) The worse part is we just don't have anywhere to put all this snow! Driving to my Dr.'s appointments has been an adventure because I can barely see over the snow banks. I'm already freaking out about what's to come in the spring when all this starts to melt. We didn't get nearly as much snow last year and when that first big spring rain came and starting thawing everything we had seepage issues in the basement that took a lot of our time maintaining.

Apparently these kids already take after us and they'd rather stay nice and warm inside than come out to face reality. I can't say I blame them, this isn't the ideal time I'd want to make my arrival either. But sorry kids, time to come out, so I can stop freaking out about how I'm going to get you out!!

Dave thinks my voo-doo rituals may actually be doing the trick which I have a few different people to thank for.

Maybe so or maybe the Dr.'s actually did know what they were doing when they put me on "home arrest" at 24 weeks. Combination of the two?! Quite possibly! Either way I never thought I'd have made it this far and I'm a little proud of myself.

And without the help of my wonderful husband and my great friends and family I wouldn't have been able to keep my sanity for this long either. All the phone calls and visits are more appreciated than anyone could ever know.