I am fine. February fever didn’t really strike me so much. I feel like I must have dodged a bullet.

The truth is, we had severe weather. I think that is preferable in some ways to the usual blah and super cold, or the usual wet rainy miserable bitter cold which can happen. I think it is weird how we all seem able to connect and talk about weather. The outside world matters to me, even on days when I stay in my pajamas all day. Like today. I am still clad in blue flannel PJs, with white snowflakes on them. 

My work of course involves being outside with kids. Rainy cold weather is no fun, and we’re all cooped up and miserable. Unfortunately, I hear the forecast for Monday and Tuesday involves much rainy dreariness. I am not thrilled with that, but have you ever thought how lucky you are to know what is coming? I mean really, we had over two feet of snow and I knew it was coming. I bought a lot of groceries.

Which also makes me feel lucky and grateful. We had enough money for groceries. And we had heat. And still are doing fine. 

My kids and their peers at school did a fundraiser for Haiti and gathered more than one thousand dollars to be sent to Haiti in the form of aid for the earthquake survivors. I am so proud of the kids for making a difference. 

So we have one more week of February. Why is February the shortest month of the year? So we can survive it, of course, or so I’ve always figured. March can come blow down the door and spill our soup upon the floor. We’ll lap it up and roar for more. 

Random selection of pictures and one valentine.

There’s the sound of the gigantic ice chunks falling from my roof. Crash!

There’s the sound of me groaning from having shoveled out the cars. Moan!

There’s the quiet tap, click, clicking of the girls upstairs playing our new obsession, Plants Versus Zombies, which is extremely addictive and very fun. Don’t start! You’ll get hooked! But if you start, you can talk Pea Shooters and SunShrooms and Melon ‘Pults with us anytime you want. Oi. Too fun.

There’s the cursing sounds of people slipping on icy steps, too.

So all these sounds are why it’s been so darn quiet around here.

Here in Philadelphia we are still digging out from the biggest snows, like, ever. Apparently, the warmer air holds more moisture, and more moisture means bigger storms. Bigger hurricanes for part of the country and bigger snows for others. There will likely be bigger droughts, and bigger rainstorms.  Who knew that “global warming” would mean blizzards that shut a city down for a week?

We had school a week ago, Tuesday, but otherwise it’s been snow days. And today is of course a holiday. My kids and I have had a lot of fun. Rather than write endlessly, I am posting some pictures. Each one is worth, well you know how much a picture is worth!