Somebody Please Just Make It Stop!!

This is a photo of part of our backyard, our pool actually. If you look closely you can see part of the diving board. Everything buried deep under snow. Yes, for the second week in a row we're buried under blizzards and sub-Arctic temps. That's what life is like here living in the frozen Arctic tundra. In fact, all this week so far and 4 days last week the school buses were cancelled either due to the snow or the extreme cold. Our kids are homeschooled so they don't get Snow Days which they complain about and I think is the one thing they don't like about homeschooling.Today it's - 17 C with a wind-chill of -25 C and other days it's been even worse, like - 25 C feeling like - 35 C. In Winnipeg the other day it was something like - 50 C. No joke.

We have to hunker down and hibernate as daily we are hit with an onslaught of blizzards, snow squalls, white-outs, snow drifts 5 feet high, so bad even the snow plows had to be recalled off the roads as the visibility was so bad the drivers couldn't see.Activities and events are all cancelled or rescheduled all across the board and no one was going anythwhere. A friend in the Southern US asked me how we survive in such awful cold snowy weather and I told her, Stay indoors.

I blame my mother. She hung a wreath on the front door that says Let it snow!

My friend J ( from the YMCA group in Ottawa) and also my friend I (from grade 8) are in sunny Cuba right now and I'm so jealous. It seems that esp. this year everyone's going away except for me. I'm really bummed-out. I desperately need tropical beach therapy. It's been a nice break though these past 4 days with my hubby away, much less tension and NO fighting, yelling, arguing, or strife from anyone. Buddy doesn't even seem to noitce, or care, that he's not here though, but whenever I'm gone(even just for a short while, like at church) he sulks and cries, howls, hides under the couch or waits on the stairs landing for me to return.It's nice to be missed though and he always gives me such a welcoming greeting when I get back: he zooms and races excitedly all over in circles, tail wagging a mile a minute, jumping all over me, rolling over onto his back for a belly rub, licking me, sometimes even so happy he piddles. He's the only one that loves me or misses me but boy does he and I love him for it.