Winter Storm Hercules made us a visit over New Years. We got a bunch of snow. Which was cool. Like enough to render cars buried in snow. Dave is still working on his deadline, so Nico and I hung out most of New Year's Day. We played Royseball and I taught him Slap Jack and Old Maid. Coincidentally, when you are only playing with two players, most (and in our experience all) games of Old Maid end in a tie. The good news is, that I love this age with Nico because we can start playing board games and card games. Although, something tells me this kid is going to kick my ass at Boggle. Still, I am looking forward to him being a scotch older, mostly because he needs to be introduced to the Bishop method... which is running all your errands and doing all your chores on Saturday morning and spending Saturday afternoon, evening, and Sunday lazing around the house and reading the 9314129347 books you got from the library.
We also did a fair bit of shoveling on Jan 1. I wonder what I have to do in order to keep the novelty of shoveling snow for him. Because it would be great to have a 12 year old that shovels all the snow. Don't tell Dave I said that... I'm not allowed to talk about difficulties of winter weather. For ever.
I also did a fair bit of knitting. My mom taught me to knit in the round, which is just like regular knitting, only easier. The socks I am wearing in the picture below were knit by her... in peacock colors... I am halfway though a hat for Le Boy... If Dave doesn't watch it, he's going to end up with a hat too!! Although he probably wouldnt wear it, because he likes the Stoner hat that Aunt Judy got him last year (he wears it pretty much everyday).
I'd been procrastinating on some errands that needed to happen. So Wednesday afternoon, I sent Dave to Panera so he could work. When Nico woke up from nap, we shoveled the car out and set about our errands. Mind you, I had never driven in snow, but I figured a good way to start would be on a holiday with few people on the road. I did a pretty good job shoveling the car out- it was surprisingly easy to navigate our road. Most of the main roads were pretty well shoveled and salted.
Before anyone gets their knickers in a twist with me using my phone while driving, know that we were at a stop light stopped when the light turned.
Parking the Kia was a different story- because when I got home, I almost got stuck trying to park. I finally ditched the parallel parking idea and chose to bury my car in 10" of unshoveled snow in the next block.
Apparently a 10" snow is business as usual, because Thursday DePaul was open and Nico's school was open. So I was back at work. I got a lot going on and am trying to get my feet under me. I know that my job isn't like being President of the US or even being an Assistant Professor, but damn it's hard to take almost three weeks off. In any case, I am back on the grind.
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