Bi And Large

So it's another weekend around here and you know what that means.... oh yeah! ANOTHER blizzard! I'm getting to love this stuff! Or at least get used to it by now. It means we get less done as far as Christmas shopping and errand running, but we're forced to relax and be mellow. That's not so bad. Tomorrow they are saying a foot of snow, 30mph winds, and -5F / -20C. That's *actual* temperature, not the windchill. Wish you were here!

I talked to my mom on the phone yesterday for the first time since this whole thing happened and it was so nice to hear her voice. She sounds back to her normal self, and that makes me happy. I know, of course, that we are already defying the odds. By the time I was a toddler she was being told that her days with us were limited and I have always lived with the knowledge that my mom won't be with me forever. I am amazed that she has made it this far, to see me married and Zack married and Kysa through school and to see her grandkids, that's incredible! But it still is a pretty awful thought, and I don't want to believe that sometime she will go into the hospital with an infection or whatever, and won't come back out. I know it will happen, of course it will. I just hope it doesn't happen for a very very long time. I have too much planned in between!

I got some Christmas cards printed this week and I plan on mailing them out in the next few days. Now, I know some of you guys LIVE for this stuff and you plan out your Christmas photos starting in about July and you hire professionals to take the pictures and whatever. OK so me, not so much. Me, I realized I have only so many days left, and I freaked out, and I grabbed the most recent photo of the girls I had that wasn't hideously ugly and threw it into some overnight cards at the local pharmacy counter, just so I would HAVE some, because otherwise there's no way in hell it would get done. I am going to be lucky to get presents bought this year. So yay for me that I am sending some out. Don't expect to be floored by the beauty and artistry of them, ok?

In other news, a big huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my brother and sister! Kysa turns 24 today and Greg turns, well, old. Neither of you are biologically related to me, one of is legally related to me (and I love you!) and one of you is the brother my heart chooses. Not to mention my kids. They are convinced you are their uncle and they don't take no for an answer. I love you and I am so thankful for both of you. Drink lots, be safe, and have a GREAT year next year full of love and happiness. You guys deserve it.