Crazy Commute!!!

Okay, I have to share Todd's commute yesterday because it makes me truly grateful to be a stay at home mom. As most of you know we have seen some serious snow for Seattle. We probably got about 12 inches here in Poulsbo, the streets are still covered and there is ice everywhere because the temperatures have stayed in the 20's so nothing is melting. Todd had taken work off last Thursday and Friday because of snow and then we got a huge dumping on Sunday as well that actually shut down the airport. However, Todd needed to go into work on Monday to do payroll. So he puts chains on the mini-van, gets dressed in his snow pants and running shoes with accompanying waterproof backpack and off he goes. He drives down to the park and ride on some very icy roads. Parks the van, takes the bus from Poulsbo-Bainbridge Island and takes the ferry accross to Seattle. He then runs 4 miles to work in the snow and ice, gets to work and showers and changes, works a 10 hour day, changes back to running clothes, runs to the bank to make a company deposit only to find out the bank is closed because of trecherous weather, then runs to the ferry 4 miles away(after stopping to chat with a friend he meets on the snowy streets of Seattle, and barely makes the ferry by 3 minutes, ferries back to Bainbridge Island, hops on the bus back to the park in ride in Poulsbo, drives to Central Market to pick up medicine for Ellie, because she has a UTI (although our Dr.'s office is shut down, the on-call doctor okays a prescription based on symptoms) and then makes it home by 7:00. All in all, made for a very long day for him, but for me as well. We have been snowed in here all week. I tried to make it out last Thursday to pick up Todd and the girls as they were going on a snow trek which was a little too long for Ellie. Got a cell phone call to pick them up about 1.5 miles a way (pretty long trek for the girls don't ya think?) but I got stuck in our little car about halfway up a hill. A kind older man helped me back my car down and Todd had to go get it later. I am very content to stay at home after that until all of this clears out. Here are some recent pics of us in the snow. Like I said, this is unbelievable for this area. CRAZY!!