Finally!

The strangely warm December weather we've been having has been producing rain instead of snow, and has had some members of the family very concerned about whether we'd be having a white Christmas or not, so we were all surprised and happy when we woke up this morning to find this!


Goodness gracious, how did this happen while we were sleeping?


There wasn't an ounce of snow on the ground the day before.

This is how it's supposed to look in December.

The kids were outside playing in it by 8:15am!

Since Randy's car is in the shop (can you believe both of our cars have had to go in this month?!), I just had him take my car today, so the kids and I enjoyed a stay-home day of coziness (with some shower and water heater repair going on with the landlord here). Good times.

**Will your Christmas be white?**

Comment Window Tidbit: I wrote our Christmas letter today, so there's a chance our cards will go out BEFORE Christmas...good grief!

More Than You Care To Know

I called our Landlord (who is our next door neighbor, yes that's a double-edged sword) to come check out our fridge while I was at Michelle's house (to minimize the annoyance factor for me) on Friday. As soon as I returned from Michelle's house they (they're an old couple) pulled up in the driveway to tell me they bought us a new fridge and that it would be arriving between 9-1 on Saturday. (On a funny side note, it's was 4:00 and they were headed out for their weekly dinner at JCWs.)


Landon woke me out of a dead sleep Saturday morning at 7:16 to tell me that the fridge would be delivered at 9:00. That meant I had to get out of bed that early (#$%@!) to get myself presentable and start taking things off the fridge and out of the fridge.


It was rather stuffed from the added things I'd taken out of the freezer the day before.

Weird to see, and seriously how old was this fridge?

Randy and I both commented in dismay about how a fridge with nothing to eat could have so much in it!

The delivery guys were actually 10 minutes early!

They took the old fridge away for us (thank heaven!).

And brought in the new one. Welcome to the 21st Century Stuart Family! Clear drawers and milk-on-the-door technology are finally ours! (There was a small dent/scratch on the door that sent our Landlords into a tizzy, but they ended up calling the head-guy and got $100 credited to their card because of it. Randy and I wouldn't have made a scene at all.)

Daunting mess.

The pile of magnets that were on the old fridge.

The new, cleaned up look of the fridge exterior. I found this rather fun to do.

Is it pathetic that Randy and I are giddy about the milk-on-the-door technology?? This seems like a huge space-saving innovation so we're thrilled.

This whole process felt like a huge ordeal at the time, but now that it's over it feels like a blessing in disguise. I suppose much of life is like that, but it's sure hard to remember that when you're in the middle of the hassle. Profound no?

**Have you gone through this?
Do you have 21st century fridge technology?
Do you love milk-on-the door innovation?**