Snowy Times!

This week has been insane. I only went to school for two days this week, and honestly, that is perfectly fine with me. Thursday, I got to spend the entire day with my siblings. I was dreading it at first, but it turned out just fine. Both Momma and Daddy were at work, so it was my job to make sure that the little twerps had edible food. I actually made a roast for supper; my siblings were pretty impressed. We played Just Dance for like 2 hours. It turns out Rudy is actually a good dancer. We were acting like crazy spazes. Honestly, it was amazing. Later that night, Elizabeth, Rudy, and I were watching Seal Team 6. Elizabeth slides down the awkwardly large couch and sits right next to me. I looked at her, and she said the cutest thing, "Wanna snuggle?" and then I see a blanket appear on my lap out of the corner of my eye, "I'll share my blankie with you." It was adorable. About a half hour later she tapped on my shoulder. I turned my head and she whispered in my ear, "What's Micah's last name?" "Most, why?" She got a confused look on her face and said, "Oh, I thought it was Mestl." I laughed and said, "Maaika Mestl is a girl." Then she asked, "What about Byron? What's his last name?" so I said, "Nelson". "What about Elijah? Isn't his last name Humphrey?" I laughed and said "No, Makenzi's last name is Humphrey. Elijah's last name is Elmshaeuser." She got the most disturbed look on her face and asked, "How in the world do you spell that?" I laughed and said, "It's just like spelling 'Elm' 'shae' and 'user'. E-L-M-S-H-A-E-U-S-E-R." and then before she could ask any more silly questions I just told her the rest of my friends' last names. "Why the sudden interest in their last names?". Then she said, "Well whenever we visit Ogallala you spend a lot of time with them, so I figured I should know more about them. In fact, I'm going to have to have a little talk with some of them." She is so adorable.

That night, Dad didn't get home until later, and Momma had to stay the night at the hospital she was working at because she was "Urgent Personnel". Meaning that even though there was like 8 inches of snow, she had to be there right away in the morning to get medicine ready for patients. I had just started doing my homework when the land-line rang. I knew instantly that it was the school because the only people who ever call our land line are the school and awko people trying to sell us stuff. I thought about doing my homework anyway, but then quickly decided against it. Procrastinate to graduate!

On Friday, all four of us went sledding. It was so much fun. Unfortunately, the snow was too fluffy and deep to pull the sled behind the 4wheeler, so we went old school sledding. The dam on the north side of the pond is perfect for sledding. It is really steep and the snow always drifts at the bottom. (This is actually where I wrecked the 4wheeler and broke my arm a few years ago.) The thing about sledding down the dam is that you have to pull upward really hard on the front rope of the sled, otherwise you dive headfirst into a huge snow drift. No one informed Elizabeth of this, so the poor little girl ended up being buried in a drift. When she popped her head up, she had snow caked everywhere, even on the inside of her neck warmer thing. This was followed by much complaining, so eventually we started the dreadful trek back up to the house. The walk back is always the worst, you are already tired from sledding, and your boots are caked in snow, which makes them more heavy. As we started to enter the yard, Dad said that we had to help shovel the sidewalks and the concrete slabs in front of all of the buildings. Thankfully, Dad hooked the snow blower up to the tractor and helped us out a little bit. Usually, Dad uses the snow blower on one tractor, and Rudy scoops snow with the loader of the other tractor, but the other tractor is still in Ogallala sitting in Grandma's yard, so it took twice as long to clear the driveway.

Today was the first time I had been outside of our farm since Wednesday. Daddy, the girls, and I went into town to get some groceries. After that, I took a three hour long nap. It seems as though the energy is just drained out of me. I don't know what's wrong. Actually I do, but I'll hold back from making that completely public. For those of you who know what this means: MUIOF!