2nd Part To A Northern Day

A few days ago I wrote a happy New Years post and also included my first vlog. It was getting late when I wrote it so I finished it early and decided to continue on the next day.
The next day I had no time and then I started having pain in my wrists in which it lasted sometime and got worse each day, yesterday being the hardest time. Today is better so I am taking advantage of getting this post out. I don't want to make it more sore by writing a lot, so I will see what I can do for now :)

I wanted to show this in the last post. At 4:30 am, my husband woke me up telling me he got the van stuck. He needed me to help him so he could leave for work. It's not nice to be woken up by panic telling you, you have shovel before the sun comes up. This is what I call an unholy hour.

What happened was, we had a lot of snow fall the day before and overnight. The township never plowed any of it. They always wait till it is over and mid-day to get rid of it. So when he left for work he had to face deep snow. He didn't get very far as the tires spun and couldn't get any traction at the start of the street on the right. He put the van in reverse, and with very little vision as everything was dark and white he backed up, thinking he needed to give himself enough room to try again. But he backed up too far and got stuck.

This is something we have to be prepared for living and dealing with the winters. Even though we dug as much as we could there was no way we were able to get the van out without help. The snow that got cut underneath the van was so packed that when someone came to pull it out, they had to do it bit by bit as to not rip the bumper off. Fun stuff.

That day, many people couldn't go to work. Some streets had 3 cars stuck in the street, some didn't even want to take the chance.

There was so much snow! It took me all day to remove that snow. It was great exercise but man! I could have gone with a little less of it.

The kids came out to play, and even help shovel :D Well Frankie did.

And then there is Aaden, my son, my oldest.

He wanted to climb a tree. Try and try as he might, he kept getting his foot stuck. He would get it out and then try again.

And then, he just figured it out. He went up and up and up!

And he wanted to go even higher! And I also know my son. I had to say no as even though he has some climbing skills, he does not have any 'going down' skills. It was time for him to climb down and when I said that, he looked down and he got scared.
He was up there for 15 minutes telling me to call the firemen or the police to get a ladder to help him get down. It was hard not to laugh as I thought he was quite scared, I didn't want to make things worse for him by laughing at what he was saying.
I started getting cold while waiting for him so I sent my husband out to go get him, thinking my boy was getting cold up there.

He grabbed the ladder and got him down. Super hero dad of the day :P

It was a fun and adventurous day outside for us all. We built memories, muscles, precious moments and laughter. A great way to begin the new year and wanting to keep it this way.
I hope yours is just the same :)