BBRRRRRR

We are safely tucked away in the house for the rest of the foreseeable future.  We are waiting for this next snow storm to hit, with 8-14 inches predicted by Monday.  Then the deep freeze hits.  We are going to have a high tomorrow of -9, windchills expected to make it feel like -30 to -45.  All my Texas relatives.... enjoy your warmth!!  The children have orders to not open the curtains until the cold snap breaks to help the furnace.  We went to Meijer today - ours was for our regular weekend grocery run - and it was worse than Black Friday shopping.  We got into the self serve check out lane and just cringed at the long lines.  Mike left me in line with the groceries and he started bagging groceries for everyone in front of us so the line would move faster.  As it was, we got in line at 1:20 and left the store at 2:10.  But we have plenty of food, water, and toilet paper (and cookies baked by Aunt Jenny).  We have the snow plow scheduled to come plow the drive after the worst of the snow stops.  We have gas for the generator.  Blankets, flashlights and batteries gathered.  Plan to all sleep in the same room in the basement if we lose power.  And we have lots of board games and things to do.  Mike is prepared to take Monday off of work as a vacation day due to weather.  The boys are already scheduled to have Monday off school since it is the beginning of the second semester and it is teacher in service day.  And I bet school is called off on Tuesday too due to the cold -13 expected for Tuesday.  That's actual temp, not windchills.  The news reported that today one of the Meijer's in the area (not the one we shopped at) ran completely out of meat.  So now that we are completely prepared...... let the storm totally miss us!!!