Long Day!

After being excited about snow and a snow day, I lazed in bed until about 9:30a.  The kids were up doing "electronics", but most importantly, letting me sleep in.  Then I got up, got us all breakfast and prepared myself for snowblowing.  Now that we have our awesome tractor, it's fairly easy.  Usually, I can finish the entire driveway in one hour.  Today, it took me almost 1 1/2 hours to just do the paved area around the house.  Then as I started down the driveway, I was veering to close to the edge and caught stuck in the ditch.  This was at the end of our driveway, so about 1500' away from the house.  I called Connor on my phone to come down and help me.  No luck.  Then I went to get a "tow" rope from the garage.  I used our tubing tow rope.  Needless to say, it broke.  Then I stopped for lunch.  THen drove to the local convenience/carries everything store and picked up a real tow rope.  Then I got the truck stuck while trying to tow the tractor out of the ditch.  Then I called my brother-in-law, Josh, to come and help me.  I was practically in tears, at my wits end.  Then I pulled myself together and called the kids at the house to come down with shovels to help dig the truck out.  This was very reminiscent of last Christmas Day when we got stuck in our old driveway for 3 hours trying to get to Josh's for Christmas dinner.  Luckily, it was a much shorter stent being stuck.  The kids and I got the truck unstuck.  Then proceeded to shovel the area where the truck got stuck to prevent a repeat event.  THen I was feeling extra brave, and retried to get the tractor out.  And what do you know?  I actually got it out, with Connor "driving" it out.  I was so proud of myself!

Then I tried to finish blowing the driveway, but broke off a shear pin (which I didn't know how to replace), so I had to leave the rest for Bret.  I came inside, ate some cereal for dinner, and took the kids to hockey.  The rink hadn't been cleared, so it wasn't much of a practice.

The kids are hoping for another snow day tomorrow, but I fear that their wishes won't come true.  Good thing because I'm not sure any of us would survive another day without someone being hurt!  How will I survive winter break?