iced in! [oh my!!]

this. weather. has. been. crazy!
i mean, i feel like typically we can't really expect toooo much of snow predictions around here when all the media outlets are calling for winter weather... (although, one mention of snow and the grocery stores are completely out of bread and milk! why does everyone need bread and milk?! any great bread and milk recipes out there? ;)) but this time... oh my!! we've been covered in white aaall week!

fortunately, as it was all beginning, we made it on over to the farm, so we haven't gone as completely cabin-fever crazy as we would've had we stayed at our little housey, and steven's been able to make it to work from the farm a bit more easily. (although, i much prefer having him stuck with us!) but really!! it just doesn't even feel like we're in nashville anymore. winter, you nutty, kooky old fool, you!
aaand so, while northen states are probably totally rolling their eyes at our snow-related chaos and complete inability to function in these conditions... well, it's true that we are super not used to it, but also, the stuff we get around here is often really icy, turning the streets to skating rinks and making driving conditions altogether no bueno. and since monday's sky opened up with a lovely pouring of sleet, we woke up on tuesday morning to a beautiful view of white, glisteny, solid ice ice ice completely covering the land! i mean, it sure looked like pretty white snow... but... it was mooostly slippery, slick ice! and it certainly had steven and i wondering...
hooow are we going to make it to our baby gender appointment?!!
...ahhhhhh, our long awaited, gender-revealing, 20 week, baby-number-two scan was scheduled for the most frozen week nashville has seen in years, and there we were 25 minutes and a couple of ice-covered hills away... but oooh, winter weather, you just can't hold us back!! no siree bob! not us, my friend, nooooot us. ;) (okay, you can, actually. a lot. but not where there's such knowledge to be had!!)

(aaand this is just gonna have to... be... continued!)