My Winter Woes Continue

*A LENGTHY TALE*

All you Utahn's know the craziness of yesterday's storm....

Those who are unaware, let me explain by giving you a run-down of my day {I'll try to leave out expletives!}:


3:00 p.m.- I drove down to Kensie's school {with the 2 boys} to pick her up for dance class.

3:30 p.m.- We walked out to the car and it was a sudden blizzard. Our clothes were completely wet from just walking through the parking lot. I called Matt & decided not to go to dance class, and let him know I was on my way home.

3:31 p.m.- I drove a few hundred feet and had to pull over to the side of the road {or what I thought was the side}. It was a complete white-out. I've never experienced this in my whole life living in Utah. The wind was blowing so hard {70 + miles an hour I found out later} that it was completely impossible to see.

3:32 p.m.- I decided {along with many other cars} to stay where I was until there was better visibility.

5:45 p.m.- After 2 hours the kids just could not "hold it" any longer. I was cursing my windshield wipers, which were completely frozen and were doing me no good. I tried to get out once to clean them off, but it was no use. I finally made the decision that if anyone passed me going toward the school I would turn around and follow them. A car came not too long after. I had to roll down my window and drive with my head out the window to see anything at all {which was not much}.

6:00 p.m.- We made it back to the school {thank heaven} where teachers were waiting to comfort my bawling kids and get us situated. There were many children and parents there also. I learned that kids were stuck on buses and were trying to get back to the school {some were stuck on the buses until after 9:00}. I was SO glad that I picked Kensie up & she wasn't stranded somewhere or at the school by herself.

6:15 p.m.- We set up camp with the rest of the first graders in a teacher's room. The faculty came around with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, apples, crackers, and milk. The teachers were GREAT! AMAZING! How can we ever repay them? Kensie was having a blast playing with her friends and Lincoln was following her everywhere. We watched movies, played games, and had lots of treats. I only had one bottle for Jackson and one diaper, which worried me.

8:30 p.m.- After talking to many of the other SunCrest parents I learned that the road up to our house was open {it had been closed since the storm began} and I just knew I had to try and make it home. I bundled up the kids and got them in the car with some help from Brian Smart {fellow BHS alum...yeah, we're tight now. I see him often at the school driving his pliggy van & toting his 7 kids!}. The kids were bawling again & I had them saying prayers to calm us all down & help us get home. The weather was not any better. As I got out on the main road all the cars in front of me were turning around before they got to the intersection that leads up to SunCrest. I almost turned around but decided to keep going.

9:00 p.m.- I made it home. It was a total miracle. I was alternately praying and cursing the entire way. No cars were in front of me so I had no way of knowing if I was going the right way. But I made it. I got a call from one of the SunCrest parents who left when I did & he told me that they closed the road again before he could get there. I barely made it. Students and teachers had to sleep over at the school. Kensie was disappointed this morning to learn that she'd missed out on a fun night, but I was SO GRATEFUL that I wasn't stuck there with the kids. Total Miracle.

I didn't really sleep much...I kept thinking of those poor kids on the buses.



Go Here to see what we missed out on. {watch the video}