Digging Out

Yesterday, Scott called in due to the emergency travel only order issued by the police. So Levi and Dad spent most of the day digging us out. Now Levi always throws a fit when I ask him to pick up his toys or to make his bed, but let him do some "mans work" and he is happy as can be. He even got to use a shovel his own size.

Again Millie and I watched from the window.

Kids are funny

When Scott got home on Tuesday he decided to take Levi to the park to go sledding, on the drive over Levi said, "Dad, it is rangin ice." Scott replied, "It is raining not rangin." To which Levi came back with. "Rangin is the country way to say it dad." DUH!

Still Laughing,
Leah

Can I play in the snow

When there is snow outside what does any kid want to do. Play in it. So we suited Levi up in his camo snowsuit and sent him out . By the way this will be his last year to wear it seeing that it is about 2 inches too short and getting a little tight, but this does not stop a kid, especially Levi.

Millie wanted to go out too, but the window is as close as she is going to get. She stood there for about 30 minutes knocking on the window and yelling, "Bubby."

Sorry I forgot to flip the pictures...you will have to turn your head instead.

Leah

Snow, ice, snow

It is day three of no school. Levi is loving it, Millie is enjoying all the play time, and I am going nuts! I am ready to get back to a schedule. The snow began Monday night left 6 or 7 inches, then on Tuesday the rain/ice/sleet came leaving two inches of ice, then on Tuesday night more snow came dumping about 8 more inches on us. They are calling for more snow tonight so it does not look too hopeful for school to resume tomorrow.

Wanting to get out,
Leah

Dryer

A week ago on Friday, in my haste to hurry out the door I quickly placed a load of laundry in the dryer so that the clothes would not sit wet in the washer for a week while we were gone. Well I shut the door and turned the dryer on and turned to run up the stairs out the door into the van and off to the youth service......but my scarf was caught in the door and when I started to run it caught on a little black clip and broke it therefore causing my dryer not to turn on. I quickly laid out all of the clothes and left.

Well we came back from vacation but without a dryer, getting caught up on laundry is a little tough one load at a time when it takes at least a day to hang dry the load. So I asked Scott to fix it. He tried to open up the the dryer to see what the problem was, but couldn't figure it out and told me to call a repair man.

We just got back from vacation, I did not want to spend the money on a repair man. So to the internet I went. I got instructions on how to get the dryer open and figured out that it was the door activation switch that was broke. So I called around and talked to a few appliance folks got some advice and set to work fixing the dryer. I got it open and started fiddling around when Scott got in on the action. He found a man who sales whirlpool parts in Columbus who happened to be open at 8:30 this evening. We bought the new switch for $25 and it took probably 10 min. to install and get the dryer back together.

Now my dryer is fixed, there was no need to pay a repair man, and the internet saved the day yet again.

Catching up on Laundry,
Leah

PS - I just looked out the window and it looks as if I will have all day tomorrow to catch up on that laundry. There is already about 2 inches of snow on the ground with no break for at least another 12 hours according to the radar and weather woman.

Hoping for a snow day,
Leah

HOME SWEET HOME!!!!!

We are finally home. After a week of being away, Scott and I have finally returned to our kiddos. I will say that the week alone and away was well worth it and we considered staying gone, but the mommy in me had to get home to see my kiddos. We left Alexandria, LA at 6:40 am and arrived home in Columbus at 7:45 pm. Just to let you know Millie was more excited to see her daddy than me, but Levi stayed close to me!

We had a great time. Just to let you know what we did we went to church, then to church, and oh yeah we went to church again. The week was spent at Brother Anthony Mangun's Church in Louisianna for the Because of the Times Conference. To sum it up in a word. WOW! I suggest every minister go at least once. We feel revived and refreshed and were ready to get home to our everyday lives.

Sorry, but I forget to take pictures. I had my camera, but without my children to photo and chase after I was just enjoying being in Scott's company and was not thinking about the camera.

Feeling Blessed,
Leah

On the Road

After a day of driving we finally made it to Louisiana. We got on the road around 5:45 am this morning in marion and headed this way. We arrived in Louisiana around 8:00 this evening. We are currently in Shreveport. We got a room, which was a challenge. We did not realize that this is a very big casino town and this being a holiday weekend most hotels were booked for the weekend. We landed a room for tonight, but tomorrow is in limbo. Maybe we will head farther south, I wouldn't mind going to Baton Rouge or even west to Dallas.

There is a RiverFront here with lots to see and do so that is what tomorrow holds. As for right now it is 12:49 am and I am a little sleepy.

Good night.
Leah