I Hope It's Not an Omen

I keep thinking that I will post about Christmas and all the fun and activities that occurred around that big event but so far it hasn't happened.  I look at my blog, I sigh and I log off.  Nothing sticks out in my mind or begs to be written about.  So suffice it to say we had a very nice Christmas.  We spent the rest of the holiday break fighting a flu bug so we watched too much TV and played too much Wii, we ate cookies and candy and Advil and amoxicillin.  By New Years Eve, everyone was feeling well so we had the party that we had scheduled with friends.  Rachel and Geral were beside themselves with excitement to be allowed to stay up until midnight.  Then on the stroke of twelve they were done, exhausted and ready for bed.

The first big event of the new year was they joyous occasion of having the sewer back up into our basement.  Yuck, yuck and double yuck.  I called the kids to dinner Thursday evening.  William came up from the basement and told me he thought the toilet had clogged and overflowed.  Toilets clogging is a common occurrence around here but overflowing is another matter entirely.  I ran downstairs to see what was happening and there were inches of nasty water on the bathroom floor and seeping out into the rest of the basement.  Lovely.  Ralph walked in the door from work at that moment and was greeted by my cries of help from the basement.  Have I said yuck yet?  Ralph was unable to snake anything out so we called in the pros.  He brought his power snake and found a clog way out in the line.  With that solved, we cleaned things up and cut out soaked carpeting.  Then we called in more professionals to spray it all down and dry it out.  Now we have to decide what to do with the basement.  More decisions, more money.  Alas.

So far this year, we haven't had snow that was worth speaking of.  The kids are hoping that this will change tonight.  The forecast has us at 2 to 4 inches.  The salt trucks and plows are lining the roads and already treating some of them even though we have only experienced a slight flurry.  Like the past couple of storms the bulk of the snowfall will be north and south of us.  We are really just hoping for enough to go sledding, and if we are really fortunate, a delayed opening.  Keeping our fingers crossed.