Family and Arctic Coldfront

 Gosh, it has been crazy around here. 

The arctic front came through here like a mad teenager slamming doors. Lol. People  had busted, frozen pipes and a higher power, power supply wanted all local power companies to comply with rolling blackouts to conserve energy and less stress on the power grids. 

They did the black outs in intervals in different areas. Then some homes just lost power on their own. We got down into the single digits with negative windchill factors.  We were all snuggled in and our families. We had food, heat, water and power except for when it was our time for the 30 minute black out. We used our fire place to ease our central heat. We kept it on high enough to just keep pipes from freezing. Our son got called in while he was on his vacation to help with the black outs.  The temps finally got up into the 20s and 30s. Even in arctic freezes, cows still have to be fed. 

Then Christmas finally arrived. Things were different for me and dear hubby this year. We did not have a kid at home waking us up on Christmas morning. 😫 

It's hard when you are an empty nester especially on the holiday. We had our gift giving and then later that evening we went to my momma and Daddys like we always do every year. However, the rest of my family couldn't make it because some were without water and alot were sick. So much happening at one time and at the wrong time. 

After we left my momma and daddys, we got to drop by and pick up our girls and let them spend the night with us so they could wake up the next morning and have Christmas even though it was a day later.  

Our Christmas started that night as Poppie read the Christmas story to the girls with a flashlight as he always does. Then we put out milk and Santas favorite cookies of all, chocolate oatmeal cookies. Then off to bed where they passed out. 😴

 

The girls got a special suprise from Santa when we showed them the pics of Santa on the cameras. We caught him. And he left them a note. And he even took the time to pose for a pic for them. And Gmaw got sugar from Santa. I know without a shadow of a doubt that Nanny got the biggest laugh out of this and is smiling and laughing. 💗

It was so nice to have all our kids under the same roof and share the day with. It was nice to hear children's laughter and excitement again. 😄 

After exchanging gifts, me and all my girls hit the kitchen to make a good country breakfast, after eating and getting full bellies, everyone was so comfortable they passed out. 

Ad if the day couldn't get any more perfect, it started snowing and snowed most of the day. God truly blessed us with a wonderful, white Christmas. Then the cows had to be taken care of of course. 

We had such a great time. The girls got to spend two nights with us. Dakota is on vacation and Atleigh is on school break so I have to share her with Daddy. Lol. 

We have been playing games and playing with their new toys. 

I've also been trying to get my house cleaned too. Lol. 

This week I just want to play with them and have fun and next week I will begin to undecorate, clean and get back to normal. 

I have plenty more new videos coming and making. 

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and I hope everyone has a very blessed and Happy New Year with Gods blessings. But it's also about blessing God too with our daily lives. 

Blessings to all.