White Christmas

We finally got thru the ice storm of 2008. Here in New England it was quite nasty albeit beautiful. The ice coating every branch and each blade of grass was a fantastically beautiful but the damage it left was devasting to so many people. Trees were bent over and many toppled and broken branches were everywhere. The worst was the death of a couple of people from carbon monoxide poisoning and one very sad gentleman that was on oxygen died when the he lost power and the battery backup finally gave out. He was found in his bed, dead, and the temperature in his apartment was 35 degrees. There were fires, trees that fell on houses, and live wires across roads. We were fortunate to have lost power for only 4 days. My man stayed home and manned the fireplace so no pipes would freeze and I took our little one and headed down to Connecticut to wait out the power outage at my brother's house. My son was amazingly good for an autistic child who'd never been to his uncle's house before and isn't use to travelling so far. One thing that kept his attention was the train pictures uncle has hanging on his walls. J. loves trains and of course the "Thomas" dvds he watched. We even took him to uncle's barber for a much needed haircut.
The temps zoomed up to around 50 by Monday afternoon and we headed home the next day. My man was really thrilled to finally be able to take a hot shower and have some "real" coffee. We were glad to be home to sleep in our own comfortable beds. (My brother has this very old sofa bed that will be chopped up when he finally buys a new home).
Now we can finally get ready for Christmas. The only drawback being that we are in the middle of a snowstorm that has left us with over a foot of snow and altho it should have stopped snowing late last night, it hasn't. And it's really cold outside.
Next week, weather experts tell us to expect another storm starting either Christmas Eve or Christmas day. Definitely a white Christmas. My CT. brother will be coming up on Christmas Eve and I have suggested to my NJ brother and sister-in-law that it may be better to come up on Christmas Day since they can only spend one nite. They have their birds to take care of and can't really leave them more than a night alone so if Friday is better to travel back home so be it.
I hope and pray that everyone has an awesome, safe, and warm Christmas. If you must travel, please take it slow. My Vegas kid sez that they got snow in Vegas (Yeah!! about 3 inches) but that people actually slowed way down on the highways. I think it was due to shock!
Anywho, take it easy and enjoy your holidays!
So says amma today.