A day in the life.....: NEMO

It’s a dumb name for a storm. Just sayin’.

They predicted – and it showed here in southern Maine.

On Friday we had a pre-blizzard snow day because of a little storm that was leading the big one. We got about six inches from that one. It was enough to go play in it with friends. It was cold- maybe 12 and the wind was blowing but it wasn’t too bad. OK maybe it was. Burrrrrr.

We decided to have a blizzard party at our house. It’s nice to have neighbors who are our friends or rather it’s nice to have friends who are also our neighbors. Either way. Erik had to work so he said he would get the Chinese take out for us. Alec and I did a little prep work.

Blizzards are so much better with friends! The kids were in their jammies- we were all cozy-hanging out –eating/munching, talking and mostly laughing.

We did put the kids in the bounce house for a while to get some ‘beans’ out and then they got really cozy.(Ben is in there!)

Then the boys took all the blankets out of the linen closet (god bless them) so we made them a fort. With the radiant heat- it was really cozy in there. A perfect blizzard spot.

2 kids, 2 dads and all Alec’s stuffies fit in this fort. All was well and good until Alec started tooting under there. It became a stink house. Which, of course brought on tons of giggles.

Good times.

The next day was snow, snow, snow and more snow.

And when it finally stopped there was over 30 inches of snow in the ground. 252

I think the above picture is the best for showing how deep it truly was. Higher than the snow blower. It took Erik 4 hours to clear the driveway on Saturday and another hour on Sunday to finish. A normal storm takes him 1 hour. It was a long cold night for them although Alec only lasted for a little more than an hour which was fine since it was still windy and bitterly cold. Like in the teens without the wind chill.

Shania was not happy about the situation either.

But she was very pleased with the fort.

And then on Sunday morning. A little more clean up of Nemo because don’t ya know… as soon as Erik was done snow blowing Saturday night the snow plow came by and pretty much blocked us in.