sounds of the season

Ah, the sounds of winter in Minnesota. The snow plows, the snow blowers, the snow mobiles, kids playing on mountains of snow, the phone ringing like crazy with people who love me telling me not to drive two hours to Minneapolis in the snow...

So I didn't. Really, should the girl who got stuck in the driveway this morning trying to bring the laundry to a friend's house be driving 4 kids home in "the worst blizzard in a quarter century"? So God provided Dick Kneisl to drive Micah to the airport on CHRISTMAS EVE DAY! Micah and his sister are both safely in a hotel for the night. They will go to the airport early tomorrow.

We had a family Christmas today and played with presents and prayed with daddy before he left and then played out in the snow on a hill bigger than a house. And it's still snowing...we are praying that the blowing will hold off until Micah and Rebekah are safely on their way to Amsterdam.

Oh...another famous sound this time of year (in Kerkhoven, anyway)..."BINGO!" JT won an 18 lb. turkey at our annual Ambulance Bingo night.