Chugging Along

We're 6 days into 2014 and still chugging along.  The kids are still not back in school because of the snow storm.  We had pretty close to 10 inches, so they're out again tomorrow.  Cole did take the truck to drive to work Sunday night.  The Sunday night manager at McDonalds is not very nice and gave him a hard time about coming in because he didn't come in for ICE in December.  He stood up for himself and told her there was a big difference between ice and snow and those that live in town and those that don't, like us.  He was also the only non-manager to show up, but she was still nasty to him.  I told him that life is full of supervisors like that and just to do his best and deal with the Sundays.  After wrestling he can look for a new part time job, but make nice until then.  I'm hoping he finds one, but I told him regardless if she gets too nasty it's not worth this in high school for a minimum wage job.

It's been a long few days due to the approximate 10 inches of snow we got and sub-zero temps.  The kids are still out of school tomorrow and haven't been in school since the middle of December.  The cats and dogs are rooming together in the garage.  Oreo (the new cat) is getting used to the dogs since he's so close to them now.

We're hoping to go look at new tables again this weekend.  I'm just not sure I'm ready to spend the money, but our table is just too small now.  We've have it for over 10 years and now that the kids are getting bigger there's not enough space with the leg on each end.  So we're hoping to find a trestle table that will fit 7 comfortably.  The guy in the store this past weekend looked at us like we had two heads when we said we needed to seat 7 every night.  And yes we do eat at the table as a family every night.  When Cole has late practice he misses sometimes, but 90% of the year is all 7 of us eating together.  Our kitchen table gets a ton of use.  Now we need to find the best use for our money to find one that will grow with us, but fit in our small kitchen area.

Work is work. I made it in today regardless of the weather.  It's always quieter and kind of nicer on these days, but the commute is long going so slow because of the snow and pack snow (ice).  By the time it clears up this week we'll get more.  I always worry about Cole being on the roads.  He seems pretty cautious so far and I'm thankful for that, but there are still other drivers out there.  And crazy ones in this weather sometimes.  We did send Jaemin outside Sunday before the temps dropped.  He was so excited to go out in the snow.  He doesn't like cold much, but thinks he's something else in the snow.  Chelsi stayed out much longer than we expected too.  She's not much on cold either.  I looked out and at one point wasn't sure how Chelsi could even see.  I couldn't see her face at all.  She had a head warmer on and a scarf wrapped around her face.  She got to use her Christmas sled and boots.  She looked so stinkin' cute out there with her pink boots and cat head warmer.

Hopefully 2014 will be calm.  Probably depends on the cardiologist and what he says when he calls back.  Hopefully soon.  I'll have to call him this week if he doesn't call.  That should have been enough time for the team to meet even with the holiday weeks.