Big Brother Snow Storm...

This winter has been pretty mild, but we finally got our big snow that Joel had been waiting for!  Warnings of blizzard-like weather were all over the news for days preparing people for what was to come.  Joel's favorite newscaster, Peter Chan, referred to it as "Big Brother" which we thought was pretty funny! 

ICCF announced that no matter how bad the snow was we would not be canceling work...boo!  We have been trying to save as much of my vacation time as possible for the end of my pregnancy so I stayed in GR at Alison's house so I would be able to easily make it to work in the morning.  I woke in the morning to tons of snow...I think we got 17 inches in 24 hours!  I have never seen snow so thick on the roads.  At 7:30am I only passed 5 vehicles...4 snowplows and 1 car that was stuck.  Most roads were not even plowed and the ones that were only had 1 lane plowed....very interesting!  Only a few people even made it into work, but on a positive note I got a lot done!  I was able to return home on Wednesday night and relax with Joel who had a snow day and then realized later on in the night that he would get another one the following day as well...a much needed break for him.  Joel doesn't just relax on his days off though...he cleaned the house, snowplowed the driveway, cleaned up the baby's room and did the dishes!