Merry Christmas everyone!!!
It's snowing a lot here in Dubuque right now. We're up to four inches since last night. Those four inches on top of the two feet of snow already on the ground, adds up to too much snow for me to shovel. I attempted the other day when we got around 3 or 4 inches. The actual pushing of the snow isn't so bad but the lifting -- that's awful. When the snow pile is about as tall as I am, I can no longer add to it. Like I said, I attempted, but it was a failure. Luckily Nate was there to rescue me again. Our two-person team consisted of me pushing the snow to one end of the driveway and him lifting it to the top of the pile. By the time we had the driveway shoveled, another half of an inch of snow had fallen. In fear of not being able to move the next morning, I retired to the house and let my dad and Nate resume the shoveling at a later date. The best part of shoveling is providing Addie with ample time to lie outside in the snow. She loves to spend time outside accumulating small piles of snow on her back and tiny icicles from her mouth.
Last night was our Gilligan family Christmas. Good news! I received an electric mixer! (See previous blog about cupcakes). It was a lot of fun last night. Lots of laughter, chatting, presents, cookies and a few drinks here and there. My mom distributed her homemade rings and mittens that everyone fell in love with. I wore my mittens the other day while I was shoveling and I can definitely say my hands were toasty warm. My only problem last night was that for some reason I only ate one cookie. I must stop writing now so that I can go meet my cookie quota from yesterday and today.
I hope everyone has a great Christmas Eve!
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