Okay, okay... I know that all of you friends from up north who are sick and tired of getting feet and feet of snow will laugh at me hysterially, but we are SO excited because we are getting snow right now! We have literally had no snow for probably five years and last year we had maybe a bit of flurries that lasted for 30 minutes and it has actually been snowing since about 7 this morning (it's about 9:30 right now!). Yes, it's just a dusting but it's more than we've had in forever and I just know that Delaney is giddy at school right now (she loves snow and cries at every winter's end when it hasn't snowed)!!
This is what it looks like on my hot tub on my deck right now and on our front porch bannister. Don't laugh, Phats and Cinderella and all you other northern snow bunnies... we're actually excited about this much snow!!
(Crazy Southern weather that we live in--yesterday around noon it got up to 60 degrees and then we had tornadoes last night. And today, snow!)
A funny little update already: Yep,the snow has already stopped!And it's all but disappeared from everywhere (I guess that's what happens when the ground is so hot! SO, my little photos there are more special than I thought. They may be the only pics of snow we have all year. Pretty pitiful, huh?LOL)
And now... how about a HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY to all of my sweet blog friends. I love you all and am so glad we've become friends! I hope you have a wonderful day today!!!
I am about to head out to the store to buy some Val Day goodies for the girls (yes, waiting until the LAST minute!!). I had some fun things I had planned on making (some altered goodies, that I don't think I have time for now), but this past week kind of changed a lot of plans. But we will still have a good day!!! (And a White Valentine's Day is probably the best gift of all for my family! LOL)
Gary and I usually go out on Valentine's Day on a date, but I think we will skip that tonight. The girls have church and we're actually having dinner up there tonight. So, we will probably try and skip the rush-rush of finding a restaurant and go out tomorrow night instead. (Besides, the Alabama basketball game has a HUGE game tonight against #1 Florida.We will most likely get a butt-whipping, but you never know! Personally, I don't want to be stuck at a restaurant while I'm missing the game! So, part of my Valentine's Day will be spent in front of the tv! lol) Right now, I'm just so happy to have Gary healthy and at home with us!
(Which leads me to an update: we had an appointment with Gary's neurologist yesterday who basically just told us that he couldn't find anything in his tests that revealed why he had a stroke and that he would recommend that we go to a stroke specialist. I thought that was good news--that another doctor with more expertise might give us some better insight. In the meantime, G is supposed to take aspirin every day and try to take it a little bit easier. He's still frustrated with his speech sometimes, but he is resting, which is pretty rare for him!)
Now, with this being Valentine's Day, we all may be in a sappy mood. So I thought I'd share the poem that is listed today on AOL as the #1 love poem of all time. It listed 10 different poems--a lot of familiar ones by Shakespeare and Shelley and Lord Byron. Great poems!! But the #1 was the one I expected--Sonnet #43 from "Sonnets from the Portuguese" by Elizabeth Barrrett Browning. Still beautiful after all these years!!
