The Weekend
It all started while shopping for a game. We realized our car got keyed. This time on the driver side passenger door and rear panel across the gas tank door. ( It got keyed last year on the passenger side, both doors and the rear panel.) It must of happened at the first store we stopped at. We didn’t realize it until we got to the mall and got out of the car. Lovely. Oh well, at least both sides match now…
We check the mall. No game. While eating lunch at the mall’s food court my son’s tooth finally decided to pop out mid-bite. A little excitement and worry, but there is the tooth in a piece of honey chicken. Later that night he worked his other tooth out. (Yes, all he wants for Christmas is his two front teeth.) I think he was worried it would come out while eating again or worse yet while sleeping!
I also decide that even though it is a bit earlier than usual that I would go ahead and make my hair donation now. Even though it will be a few inches shorter than it has been after my other donations. It grows long enough to donate every 2-3 years or so. So I cut off 10″ to send to Locks of Love. My hair is still middle of my back in length.
Sunday night.
As night falls an ice storm rolls in. Icy rain while it is just below freezing outside. We’ve had several ice storms since we moved here and it hasn’t been that big of a deal for us. We’ve lost power once or twice, but only for a few hours at most. We drift in and out of sleep to the sounds of thunder and pouring rain.
Only to be jarred awake by the crack and crashing of tree limbs splitting off of the trees in the front yard. The trees became so coated with ice that the limbs couldn’t support the weight anymore. All night a sound like the tinkle of breaking glass, followed by a crack, and then a crash as the limbs snap off and take other branches with it as it falls to the ground. We have a few brown outs and a short black out, but the power holds.