Groundhog Day

Today Jay popped up from his underground den and checked for his shadow. Okay, actually, he tunneled his way from our couch to the end of the deck through four feet of snow and scared the crap out of our neighbors who were walking by and saw him standing between the railing and a snow drift taller than him. Chris stuck his head out of the sliding glass door and waved nonchalantly at the neighbors, probably catching them just in time to avert a call to the local child protection service...

Jay tried to convince me to let him have a camp out tonight in his snow tunnel. When I demurred, he told me that AS SOON as he wakes up in the morning, he is going back out there. He has plans for adding a few extra rooms, complete with snow furniture and snow blankets.

Snow is a resource we have plenty of at the moment. I think the official count from yesterday's blizzard was 14 inches (I also think I just made that up, but there are entire websites devoted to that kind of information and only one website devoted to crap I make up, so this is where it's at people). Snow drifts were much, much higher. Chris went snowshoeing this afternoon and walked on snow that was five feet off the ground. I stayed inside and feverishly cleaned and scrubbed everything I could get my hands on, because oh my god, this condo is filthy and don't you know there is a baby coming, a baby that will need a clean place to sleep and nurse and crawl and we can not POSSIBLY bring a baby into this world if that teapot continues to have hard water deposits on it, DO YOU HEAR ME? Can you SEE the cobwebs on the floorboard of the bathroom? No? Get down on your hands and knees and cock your head to the side. There! Do you see them now? How can we LIVE like this?? Really.

Really. Between the spring cleaning itch and nesting fever, it is best to avoid contact with me for the next twenty or so weeks, unless you'd like to help Chris rip out our carpet and replace it with hardwood flooring. Nesting is only getting started, baby. Luckily, spring cleaning will end a little sooner. Jay did not see his shadow this afternoon.

(Probably because I compulsively scrubbed it off of the snow).