wimmhtw* 1.5

1. Made it to a new year. We weren’t feeling out best New Year’s Eve, so we went to bed early and slept straight through midnight. Happy New Year!

2. A fridge full of leftovers—chicken and noodles, pasta. And the fixings for spaghetti. Eating good in the blizzard!

3. Well, I’m going to say it’s not snow that is making me happy this week. After several mild winters which I appreciated, we got a bad storm. It started with hours of ice coming down and finished with a bunch of snow. Eleven inches here, to be exact. Although it’s hard to be exact because it’s been blowing around so badly. We actually got alerts on our phones about not going out on the roads, like a tornado warning or an amber alert. My work has already declared it will be closed tomorrow, and they never close. The next few days are supposed to be bitterly cold, just to add insult to snowstorm. But we have power. We have plenty of good food. We have soft blankets and a cat to curl up with, and you know I have plenty of books to read, and for that I am grateful. We are safe and warm. Our mothers are both in places where they are cared for, where people are going above and beyond to make sure they are safe also. And that is everything.

*what is making me happy this week