We grabbed a bite to eat at the house and then Samantha and Dylan had to run an errand. I watched on my phone how they kept having to try different routes because the snow was so bad. When they were heading back to the house I saw they were stuck at the bottom of the road again so I headed down the street to help them. It was pointless. The tires had no traction. It was a thick wet snow so Samantha parked the car at the bottom of the hill and we were going to walk up. Our neighbor at the bottom of the hill volunteered to hook a tow rope to the front of our car and he pulled her up the hill using his 4x4 pickup. We then had to push like mad to get the car into the driveway. I tell you - the snow was just horrible. The plows were not running all day so the snow was thick. Samantha, Dylan, and I cleared the driveway and then Dylan and I helped the neighbors with their driveways. About that time the plow came down the road three different times. Every time he made a bigger dent and spread more rocks/sand on the road. The third time he came so very close to clipping the kids car that was parked on the road. I was sweating bullets as he moved the plow blade just in the nick of time. So - for those that don't know the plow is a dump truck with a huge plow blade on the front. The one today was filled with sand/rocks and had a spreader on the back. They look something like this -
If the snow is falling like this tomorrow I think Samantha will take the kids to school. By the time we were done we headed in and Samantha was making homemade pizza. I took a moment to discuss a few scriptures from the book of Matthew in the New Testament. It was a good discussion. We considered how Joseph acted knowing Mary was pregnant and how Mary must have felt about Joseph given his actions towards her. It was a good discussion.
Madilyn had to go to choir practice and after the plows ran Samantha had no problem navigating the roads to get her there and back. After a FaceTime call to my mom with Claire we all had some caramel popcorn and watched a movie together (well... 1/2 of one). And with that - we are all off to bed.
More tomorrow.
