Is this thing working yet? It's been down or having problems for days now....
Looks like it might be working now...it's been so long I'm not even going to try to recap what's happened since I last wrote here, as it has been too long!

Instead, today Bill was out in Napolean to watch his team in individual districts. The senior at his weight won the challenge match, so got to wrestle today. In fact, that kid is going to go on to the regionals, and I hope he gets to go to states from there. :)
Dan and Steven and I headed down and spent the afternoon in Dundee. We went to Cabella's out door superstore and spent a few hours, weighed Steven in for tomorrow's wrestling tournament in Dundee, and ate dinner.

Steven is having a huge growth spurt and it is incredible how much food the little one can consume right now. :) He has grown several inches in height since Christmas. :)

Now that wrestling season is over, hopefully Bill will let himself eat, so he can grow, too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Something that is not so blissful is the fighting that has been going on between Dan and myself. Valentine's Day is a perfect example. He promised several times to spend the day with me. Of course, he went to a wrestling tournament instead. And he doesn't understand why I consider his promises to be yet more lies...

is this thing working yet?

Driving home last night was an adventure. It had been freezing rain for a couple of hours when I left work at midnight. The police were warning everyone as they left the building not to use any of the freeways if it could be helped, as they had been getting lots of accident reports on their scanner. So I took the surface roads, at baout 25MPH. At a few points you can look over from the road I took home and see the freeway. All of the big trucks had their emergency flashers on and were creeping along --
I was going a lot faster than the freeway traffic was. I slid through some of the intersections, as you literally could not stop. Thank God very few other cars were out and about, so I did not hit anyone or get hit. I was so happy to make it home!
Today Steven is supposed to go get his yearly hearing test and see a specialist at UM hospital. He has genetic hearing loss. I hope the roads will be clear enough to take him in. If the clinic is even open, of course...who knows if the employees can
even get there...
No school, of course...
They were already short handed at work, I am sort of expecting a call from there to come in...even if I have worked 11 of the last 12 days...but I can't because of the appointments for Steven...

Today was sunny. I got out of the house and went to the store to get gifts for a couple of special occasions coming up in Dan's family...the sunshine was nice...getting out of the house made me feel a bit better...
Another ice storm and more snow tomorrow though. :(
Almost forgot, yesterday when there was no school, Steven and I went out to lunch at the bakery. I had forgotten how much a little boy in the middle of a growth spurt can eat. :) He was all smiles and little boy bliss...made me feel a world better to see him so happy... :)
Well, John did tell me how there was still wonderful things i nthe world, like sunshine and my children...and I would add to that kind friends like him. :)

Got woken up by the kids at 6AM this morning. They were happy because there was no school today, due to icy roads. There was also a pea-soup fog...its a good day to be home (though I will have to go to work later)...
Hopefully this will be the last ice storm for awhile, though we only lost power briefly.

Another bad drive home from work in the middle of the night. The start of the drive was in freezing rain and hail, changed over to great big snowflakes by the time I got home. Well, at least we got two days of sun, for which I am profoundly grateful.

The dates for cleaning out Dad's house have been set for late April. Dan has surprised me by going through the AAA book and looking for a nice place for me to stay down there. He found a resort of nice cabins with fireplaces and hot tubs on
one of the big dammed up lakes about an hour from the house, on the other side of Hardy, where we usually stay. The place even takes dogs, in case I want to take Max with me. Dan is insisting he will be coming with me, but having experienced his devotion to his business all of these years,(not to mention his decided LACK of devotion to me) I will not be surprised a bit if something comes up and he changes his mind at the last minute.

In the meantime, I have a purring cat in my arms, and a CD of Schubert string quartets playing. Life could definately be
be a lot worse...

I left the house for the first time today for something other than work for the first time since we got back from Dad's funeral, other than when literally dragged forth. I hope it means my grief, which has allowed me to do little more than lie in a ball in bed, is receding a bit. Had a long talk with my friend John the other day, which helped a lot (though it probably depressed that kind man as much as it helped me).

Today was cold, don't know if it even got into the teens, but the sun came out for awhile, which was wonderful. First sunny day we've had since the turn of the year. I was glad of it. Makes life better somehow...