D minus 6 and counting...

Well, as the excitement for the wedding continues to build, this weekend's weather has really made life interesting.

I was going to post about our experiences with planning the liturgy, but got sidetracked by the weather. However, that meeting went very well, and Sarah and I have chosen readings, hymns and songs that will make the day extremely poignant.

And now onto the weather. On Thursday the meteorologists were predicting snow and ice storms. Of course, because Friday was to be our last day before break, the kids were fantasizing about having a snow day. Looking at the weather forecasts all day, I played Mr. Rational and said that I thought we'd have a 2-hour delay, but I doubted we would have a cancellation.

Well, feed me worms and call me stinky (any Perfect Strangers fans out there remember that one?)! We DID have a school cancellation! Apparently the ice was so bad that the roads were unable to be safely navigated by the buses. I'm glad I didn't bet my kids on this one; the last time I did that I had to buy donuts (and no, I'm not talking donut holes...actual donuts) for my first hour class.

I will admit that I enjoyed the early break. With less than a week to the wedding, it was nice to have an extra day to kick back and get some little things done. Heck, I hadn't even begun my Christmas shopping yet!

Things went downhill, though, while I was out running errands Friday morning (yeah, I should have been a mailman--I'll go out in just about any weather!), and Sarah called to tell me that tree branches had fallen on our power lines, bringing them down. Oddly enough, we still had power, but Frieda could not go outside because we didn't know how safe it was.


It was not until Saturday afternoon that NIPSCO came to fix the lines. That may seem like a long time, but I had never seen ice covering branches before, and apparently lines were down all over Northern Indiana. When our repairmen came, we asked how long he had been working. He replied that he had been going non-stop since Thursday, and probably wouldn't be done until Tuesday. My hats off to those people for braving the elements like that!

While we didn't lose power, Sarah's parents did for awhile, and my sister and brother-in-law had some power surges. Luckily, as of this posting, everyone is doing well. Today's high temperature is only going to be about 6 degrees, but it will be warming up over the next few days. The forecast for Saturday is for temperatures in the 30s with a chance of rain/snow. We'll see how it goes though. That's still SIX DAYS AWAY!