SNOW BLUES
Well, my snow post for 2010 wasn't worthy of the mini ice-age that the British Isles have just experienced. Especially as I had really gone to town in 2008, here, here, here and here.
Between you and me, I think I have gone off snow now that I have children, which is the exact opposite of how it should be.
This is because the snow caused me to worry, which is the main emotion I experience second only to guilt since becoming a mother.
I worried about the amount of school the kids would miss, because they have already missed so much school in moving from their Foster Home to our home. I worried because the kids get anxious when there is a change to the routine and we couldn't establish a routine post- Christmas holiday because we didn't know from one day to the next if they were going to be in school or not. I worried because we couldn't get out and see other people and so we were all starting to crowd in on each other as the two week holiday extended into a possible third and fourth. We really could have done without the coldest winter in 30 years coming along just now.
Now though that I don't have to spend twenty minutes scraping frozen snow off the car in sub-zero temperatures and risk death slide scenarios every time I need to leave the house, it's feels like I've been without arms and they've just grown back or something. With the thaw life just became easy and I feel like I can do it again.
I am ignoring the fact that more snow/sleet is predicted for Wednesday and started filling up my diary with appointments that have been two weeks in the waiting. I usually hate making phone calls to arrange anything, but this morning it was a relief to be able to get on with things.
I hate knowing that I have been so incapacitated by a bit of extreme weather. I wonder how that can be with recent events in Haiti, which should surely have put things in perspective for me. But it didn't. It just made me feel sad and helpless in addition.
DEC appeal here, if you can afford to give.
