Being Snowed In Is Only Fun For About The First 24 Hours

Have you heard that 49 states have snow and the only state that did not join the fun is Florida?  Come on Florida, get with the program!  Y’all just don’t know the fun you are missing! 

This picture is a view down the holler.  See that snow?  It came in Sunday night…it’s still there, along with a tad more.  There has been no sun and the temperature has not rose above freezing since it got here and looks like it may be here for days to come.  Nice.  Usually when I wake up in the morning to it snowing outside, I get excited…this morning, I cried.

Check out the picture of the hubbster watching TV while the cat and dog are very cozy, sawing some major logs! (I am not sure how that cat is comfy, but she is!)  This picture cracked me up!  During the first 24 hours there are snow ball fights, hot chocolate, food, naps and TV.  Lots of TV actually, we had lots on the DVR to catch up on and we have managed to watch it all, because 24 hours have now turned into day three.  Could be longer because this is what happened on day two…

We live 500 feet down in a holler, down a very steep driveway.  Hubby tried with all his might to get us out, and it did not work.   Since these pictures have been taken, the teenage boy and his dad have been diligently working with ropes, shovels, boards and all the salt that I would allow to leave my cupboards to get the truck out.  Still they have not succeeded.  Fingers crossed for the snow clouds to vacate and the sun to start shining, cause hubby said he might not get the truck out until the snow melts.

Usually being stuck at home is an awesome thing for our family.  A much needed force of nature to get us in the same place for more than a few hours.  This time, I think we are all getting a little nervous.  Usually when the news predicts weather like this, it never happens.  My husband was out of town this weekend and when I picked him up at the airport on Sunday, we ran into Wow-mart for a few items.  I hate shopping there, so I wanted to get what I had to have and get out of there as quickly as possible.  He even asked me if we needed to get some food, and I said “nah, we’ll be okay for a day or two”. 

Welp, who woulda thunk we would get so much white stuff.  NOT ME!  So here we are on day three and no telling how many more days we will be stuck in our hole.  We are getting down to the bare bones in the cupboard and I am sipping on a glass of sweet tea from the last gallon that will be made until we get out of here, because we are out of tea bags!  Whhaaaaaaaaaa.  Y’all this is the south, and a house without sweet tea could be declared as a state of emergency in these parts!  Did I forget to mention I used that last of the butter out of the tub this morning….let me not even go there, again,  it’s the South and I think I just broke one of the ten commandments….Thou Shall Have A Month Supply Of Butter At All Times.  It’s there, I am sure somewhere in the ten commandments, probably around the one that say something about sweet tea!

After a wonderful lunch of Cocoa Krispies, I am officially here to say, I have a bad case of cabin fever and I have a craving for some Sonic.   I am still smiling, but when tonight comes along and our family starts going through convulsions from lack of sweet tea, I am afraid the smiles will be gone!  Only the first 24 hours of being snowed are fun….just saying!