It's Snowing... Again!

So... once again, we are getting a snow storm.  I love snow.  I get to stay home with the kids, watch them play and make hot chocolate and cookies.  I especially love the snow when it's enough to keep Troy home with me.  I've always been excited to hear "snow" in the forecast.  I even like driving in it.  Not when it's so bad that it's dangerous, but when the flakes are hitting your windshield... at night when it looks like you are driving through a million tiny stars... snow is great.

So you think I would be really excited when this is what it looked like before I went to bed last night.  I couldn't even get a great shot of that tree... There were too many flakes coming down.. I'm sure there is some setting on my camera that would have done it, but I was tired and it was cold out there.  :)

Then the excitement should have really been flowing when I got up and looked out back.  Yeah... more snow!

Here is the horse swing the kids love to play on in the summer.  It can't do much swinging now! 

And when I stuck my ruler in the snow and thought I might lose it ( a few more inches and I will)... You would think I would be jumping for joy.  SNOW, SNOW, SNOW!!!!

But this one time, just this one time.... I'm not jumping for joy... There is a little sadness in me towards all that snow... All that snow that just keeps falling... All that wonderful snow that would keep us snowed in together all weekend... That wonderful excuse to not really do anything but play games and watch movies and just have great snow days...  to just be together...

Yeah, you would think I would love it.

But guess what... not this time... Tonight we were supposed to go to Connie and Steve's for my birthday dinner.  Now, I'm a big girl... I can handle missing my birthday dinner.  But guess what we were having.....

Yep... LOBSTER!

It might have looked like this....

or maybe like this....

maybe even like this...

Yuuuummmmmmmmy!

I won't know until we can once again get out of our driveway.  Oh well... at least I have my family snowed in with me.  That wonderful, beautiful lobster will just have to wait to get in my belly.  :)

Oh... and ... that wonderful, fabulous, fantastic man that I'm married to bought me diamond earrings for my birthday.... even though my birthday dinner has to wait, I am a VERY lucky girl.