Winter Storm

How did the holiday gathering of Gatewoods go.  Anyone get any good white elephants?

Friday evening I watched Paulette dance in the Winter Showcase and she was dancing on Saturday so could not go to Reno with me.

Saturday morning.

Bright sunshine in Sacramento, ditto in Reno.  In between, over Donner Pass through the mountains.  Somewhere around Nyack, CA snow has fallen.  The road is wet on the sides and then in the middle and then dirty snow between the tire tracks.  I do not see a chain requirement; only the 40mph recommendation so I carefully drive in the slow lane.  I can still see the center line and some drivers; braver than I are zipping along.  Tiny snow flurries and I use lots of windshield washer.  Rest stop in Truckee and on to Reno.  I see the END CHAIN CONTROL sign as I leave Truckee.  The entire trip took from 8:30am to about 12:30pm

Being Grandma makes me very popular for the afternoon.  I get there in time for lunch.  About five PM Nana arrives and she, too, is very popular.  She's more popular because she has brought the PIZZA for dinner.  David and Robin, all dressed up, say bye, bye and leave for their party. Nobody cries.  We have pizza, salad and milk that gets spilled, of course.  Nobody cries as we mop it up and determine it is Grandma's fault because I filled Sterling's glass too full.

After clean-up, baths and pajamas we are ready for Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer--the original.  Skyler only moves to view the TV around Sterling who dances to all the music and in between runs in front of the watchers.  Shae has questions, as usual.  Why is Santa so thin?  What is that (the abominable snowman)?  Is he bad?  and so on.  Sandy (Nana) and I wonder how this has remained a classic.

The kids went to bed after drinks of water and checking on one more thing or another.  Sandy went home, I started reading and David and Robin came home.  GOOD DAY.

Sunday.  We went to church and then Robin, Shae, Skyler and I went to the Nutcracker.  Great show.  Enjoyed by all.  Then to dinner at Outback.  On the way home it started to snow.  Meanwhile, after church, David and Sterling did the COSTCO shopping and watched football.  Sterling was taking a bath when we got home.

And now it is Monday afternoon and I had planned to be at home.  Too much snow, roads in bad shape and one more storm on the way.    It stopped snowing several times today, the winter storm warning lasts until 10pm.  I do have to get home tomorrow.  That will be an adventure.