After ringing in the New Year with good friends and food, we slept in on Sunday and spent the afternoon in our pj’s…being lazy and listening to the wind outside blow like it was tornado season in Kansas. The temperature was dropping quickly, causing me to snuggle down deeper into the corner of the couch and pull my snuggie all the way up to my nose. I had a book and my iPad in my lap, football games on in the background and found myself unable to focus completely on any of them with heavy eyes that kept trying to close. Every once in a while, an extremely loud gust of wind would blow through causing me to whisper quiet prayers for safety. Luke and Anna E. had just gone upstairs to listen to their favorite “Adventures in Odyssey” cd’s when I heard a rattling gust and then felt the floor shake. I was pretty sure a large branch had come down on our house and I immediately sent Wayland out to survey the damage while I ran upstairs to check on the little ones. All seemed fine upstairs (no big holes in the ceiling like poor Granny had to deal with this week when the cable guy came through the ceiling in her living room!). The little ones were huddled together, because they too had heard the crash and were too scared to move. Although Wayland was skeptical as to what I had heard or felt, he came in to let me know that, yes indeed, more than a branch had come down…it was in fact an entire tree. Thankfully, it fell toward the house next to us which is currently vacant and no one was hurt.
The arctic chill that blew in on Sunday is on its way out…not nearly soon enough for my already having a hard time adjusting to going back to school without a 13 degree morning this week TEAM. This is how we had to do breakfast more than once this week.
This is what Nate wore all week at school. (Yes, he actually wore these Luke sized orange mittens in class). He did admit to having a hard time turning the pages in his textbooks.
Here’s to no more trees blowing down near our home in 2012. And mom turning up the heater a bit on cold winter mornings! 
I am soooooo thankful the tree did not come your way! I am not envious of your 13 degrees and must try to find Nate some mittens that are maroon to match his wonderful sweatshirt! LOL! Thanks for keeping us updated and Tina I love your posts too!
Miss Pamela