snow storms and buying houses and growing up and things.

Winston-Salem has been hit yet again by a substantial snow storm. It moved in on Friday and stayed until Saturday. Today, Monday, our little southern town is trying to figure out how to lower the plows and clear the roads. It seems they have the salting down, but not the plowing. It has been a surprisingly cold winter down here and these snow storms (the first just before Christmas) pretty much knock everyone on their backs for a few days. What is more, we're supposed to be blasted again on Thursday and Friday.

Last weekend I took the high school girls from church to Winterplace, WV to ski. Monday morning, Mark left for a four-day business trip in Lubbock, Texas. Lubbock, you ask? You've never heard of it. Me either. Mark described it as the setting of an old western film. Also the home of Texas Tech. And wouldn't you know it that Texas, for the first time in about ten years, had a massive ice and snow storm and Mark was snowed in there for an extra day. Fantastic. We finally got him home, though, when he flew into Charlotte during our massive ice and snow storm, thanks to Doc's 4 wheel drive truck.

Saturday we plowed forged through the snow to visit a house we've been scoping out for a few weeks with our realtor Chad, Mark's parents, and trusty old Kyle Welch. We love it and today... we'll make an offer! We also found out Kyle has been accepted to UNC Chapel Hill to complete the North Carolina trifecta (Adams, Evans and Kyle).

Seems we're growing up, all of us. I'm flipping through my memory and trying to figure out when it began and I can't quite find a starting point. But... so it is.

Happy snow!