I haven't done an update lately as we really haven't been able to do much. To be honest everyone in Boston was talking about how great winter was in December and January; the weather was nice and we had no snow. So many people including myself said, "I'll take this winter." We clearly all spoke too soon. When we got our first snow around 6 inches the end of January we were all so excited. Wahoo! We finally got to use our snowman kit that Grandma and Grandpa Gentry sent us for Christmas! Berke and I ran out and played with the neighbor girls up the street. We had fun building a snowman, a snow fort and having a snowball fight. Vivi was inside hanging out with Charlotte. It was great! Awesome, I thought, we had our winter, not bad.
We made cookies and celebrated and enjoyed our snow day.
Then, it began, the first 12-18 inch storm occurred. We got hammered and we could barely open the door. I enjoy shoveling, so I headed out, eager for the exercise. The first big snow, it was crazy but magical, nothing we haven't had to handle before.
With all the snow it was hard to get out, but we managed to walk to a local indoor farmers market one Sunday and to the Brandies Alumni Day another Sunday before a big storm. Cabin fever has been a REAL thing this winter and getting out is necessary.
Next we had huge storm number two with 12-18 inches and we were thinking, "Well this is just nuts! We cannot possibly get anymore. There really isn't anywhere to put this stuff. As you can see in our little city, the yards are pretty small and there really isn't any extra space to put snow. Most people have to park on the street and when it snows like this the city we lose half of our street parking spots.
After this storm school was cancelled for an entire week due to the roofs needing to be cleared. This happen to be the week before February break, so we had two full weeks of no school. Berke went to the babysitter with Vivi a few days, to school with dad for a day and then to winter camp the last week. It was CRAZY!
Then big storm #3 hit, another 12-18 inches! This was a defeating storm for the entire city. We had NO WHERE to put this snow. It was better in the burbs, but for us city dwellers this was awful! The worst! TERRIBLE! I started shoveling but there was just no where for this white stuff to go. It wasn't heavy but in order to clear the car I had to heave the snow 7 feet high and then it would come tumbling back down.
This wall of snow in my neighbors driveway is 7 feet high, it is a foot taller than Christian. There is a garage behind that pile.
Each storm I would shovel off Charlotte's back porch, each time this was how much snow needed to be removed.
Vivi thought snow was pretty cool for the few moments she got to touch it. Berke loves eating it and wont listen about not eating the dirty snow. He at least avoids the yellow snow, so I guess we can be happy about that.
This is the pile in our front yard, as you can see it is way above the fence line at this point and our little tree is completely buried!
Keep in mind, I just switched jobs, I'm doing home hospice now, which I love. But remember how the city loses half it's parking spots when it snows so the plows have somewhere to put the snow? Well in most cities, people also put furniture and other household items to mark the spot that they dug their car out of. So as you can imagine my job has been super amazingly fun with trying to find places to park (insert sarcasm).
After storm three my back was sore and on Thursday morning I put some milk away and my back was out! Next to child birth, this is the most painful experience of my life. I could not walk, I could not hold my baby I could not do anything! After a few pain pills and muscle relaxors I was on the mend (a week later).
As I type this we are currently 1.5 inches away from beating the record for the most snow in one winter ever. Clearly we want that snow, because we didn't go through all this to come in second place. We want bragging rights that we survived this crazy winter. We did set a record for most snowfall in February, duh!
In the month of February Berke had 7.5 days of school and he was sick for one of them. It's been a strange, cold and terrible winter. I have never seen anything like this in my life. The streets are smaller than before and everyone in the city is grumpier than usual! I appreciate the sweet winter packages that have been sent our way! Honestly the sweetest and most thoughtful thing ever!!!
So there you have it! Worst Winter EVA!
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