Life Is Beautiful.

Pictures of our recent storm are

a dime-a-dozen

these days....

But I thought I'd add ours to the mix.

We woke up on Wednesday morning to see

one of the city plows stuck in our front yard.

I opted for child-care duty,

and Joe put on his snow clothes...

I thought to myself,

"Self, you should poke your head outside and take a picture."

I soon realized, however, that our door was snowed-in.

This photo was taken after I pried the door open about 4".

And it's not a snow day if Ian doesn't don his balaclava.

As is customary, the city sent the big guns on Thursday.

They move the snow from in front of our house

to the side of our house.

(Snow Pile Contest is imminent, folks.)

I'm a little bit embarrassed to share this next part.

But I will. Because we're all friends here.

I never bothered to clean off my car.

So Joe finally did the job on Friday.

(And a nice New England trick we've learned is to drive your car to the road to clean it off...thus not un-doing all of your hard work when you shoveled. Joe took this opportunity to give the Corolla a bit of a Mountain Main complex.)

Ouch.

After our last storm (the Sunday after Christmas),

We had an unfortunate freeway spin-out on

our way home from Maine. It was scary and oh-so-inconvenient...

But thankfully no one was hurt.

Check out that snow pile!

Molly, should we just cut to the chase and give you the prize?

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