Winter Wonderland

So it snowed here last night and it wasn't a lot of snow but for the Mid-Atlantic it was more than enough.

We woke up to about 6 inches on the ground, which for me as a native New Englander and then going to college in the Midwest is nothing but for the people here it's all a rage.  Apparently, on the way home last night the traffic was bad because of the thunder snowstorm that cars got stuck in the snow and people ended up abandoning their cars.  This of course made it a hard and inconvenient to plow so the roads are not plowed as great as they should be.  However, the highway was all clear, which I found out on my way to work after my lovely 2 hour delay.

The news said there was a sheet of ice so bad on one of the roads yesterday that cars couldn't make it up a hill to get onto the main highway without each others help.  People said they were stuck on the 8 mile stretch for 12 hours because traffic was so bad...can we say Torture!!!!!

Luckily I was home by 2:45pm...I picked up the wee one late because I wanted to run to the grocery store so I could make dinner and then home we went.  The hubs was able to get off of work at 3:30 so he left work early and missed lots of the rush hour traffic home...even my workplace let out early... One of my coworkers who lives way north of the job didn't get home until 3am this morning because of traffic due to the weather...I can see why some people abandoned their cars.

All in all in the wee one's household things were quiet.  I made cornbread (vegan), bush baked beans ( I would have made chili but I am trying to do the Pantry Challenge I know I am a month late).  I figure I would do it anyway, since the month of February we are doing some strict budgeting and seeing how it goes so that I can further explore my stay at home option.  Along with beans, I made some seasoned potatoes (I only had two potatoes left and they needed to be cooked) and I made a salad.  It was delicious my corn beard was good...I forgot to take a picture before we cut it open...we ended up sticking it back in the oven to dry up a little more but it was still very delicious.

Then the hubby went down for a nap and the wee one and  I hung out and had some tummy time then I fed him and hubby put him to bed, which allowed me to finally finish the book The Help, which I mentioned here ( more on  the book later).

Then off to bed I went hoping for a snow day...which I clearly did not get since I am at work today.  However, I got a delay and it was nice to sleep in with the hubby and hang out with Ben.  Turns out though that daycare is closed due to lack of power...so the hubby had to telecommute this morning and I still had to come in.