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Snow days and Madeline's Kitty Kare Palace

Holding her favorite kitty, "Genevieve"
 We had a lovely ice storm over the weekend that started late Thursday night or early Friday morning. We were keeping some kittens and a momma for a friend for a couple of days and that turned into all weekend because of the storm. Good thing we had them to entertain us since everything else imaginable got cancelled this weekend--church, craft fair, Dallas Marathon, school, etc.
Snuggling with James
 Fortunately Aaron is a pretty good driver on icy roads so we were able to get out quite a bit to do errands etc. On Friday we went over to some friends and Aaron and Maddy went sledding with them. On Saturday we went out and did our Christmas shopping. Great day to take care of that and don't think we would have had another time to do it anyway. Lot's of businesses were shut down because of the ice and I would say Saturday was the worst day for the roads because it was so cold we never got any thaw that day. Tammy and Jeff came over that night and we celebrate Tam's b-day with stew and biscuits and then went to Cafe Brazil for dessert and coffee.
frosted window

"Elijah"
 Sunday was a lazy day. We didn't even watch much football. The kitties went home that afternoon.
holding "elijah"

Maddy's favorite thing to do with the kitties--push them around in the grocery cart
Today, for some reason unknown, Maddy's school decided to close because of the weather. Our residential streets are even dry so I don't know what that was about. Aaron was on a delay til 10 for DBU. He said the commute was pretty slow because of the bridges. It did not get as warm today as they predicted but I hope it will be somewhat better tomorrow and get completely melted off so we can get back to a routine. My semester wraps up this weekend with finals on Friday for my class. I am SO READY!!

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bee said…
Maddy is so cute with these kittens. Did she name them or were they already named? Surprised those kitties stay in the cart. haha
December 9, 2013 at 8:22 PM
Anonymous said…
Wow! I can't believe that weather! Glad ya'll had something to entertain you! The sledding sounds fun. Good luck with your last day and congratulations!
brittany
December 10, 2013 at 12:25 PM
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