Wednesday, February 9, 2011
We’ve lived in the Missouri Ozarks for about five and a half years now, and we’ve never had a winter with as much snow as this one. We thought when we moved here from Western Kansas that we would be moving to a place with nicer and less extreme weather. Yeah.
A tornado destroys our house in March of ‘06. An ice storm leaves us without power or running water for 23 days in January of ‘07. Now, in the winter of the restoration tour, we’re having blizzards and snowstorms every other week, it seems.
The difference is, those other storms were a bad thing for us and our marriage. They interrupted and changed our lives in negative ways and I especially didn’t handle them well. Where they seemed to be a curse to us, these snowstorms have been a blessing.
Yes, we are home yet again experiencing ANOTHER snow day!
These days have not been filled with the hassle of shoveling driveways and walks, dealing with the lack of electricity, or wondering where we are going to live or what we are going to do. Instead, they’ve been joyous days of bonus time to spend together, cooking, playing, trying new things, and nurturing our ever growing trust and intimacy.
The Restoration Tour 