The Number 7

Some might say that their lucky number is 7. It certainly is the number of many things in my life. My daughter was born on the 7th weighing in at 7 lbs 7oz. Growing up, we had 7 people in our family. My husband has 7 kids in his family. Those were the first things that came to mind. But as of last night we have a new 7 in our lives....

7 was the number of hours it took for my husband to get home from work!!!! Seriously! He works in the SLC area and we live in Utah county of course and on a normal day the drive takes about 50 minutes. Yesterday's storm seemed to hit our area the hardest. It snowed between 2 and 6 pm yesterday, non-stop. It was white out conditions at times. It was really windy too, just adding to poor driving conditions. David left work at 5 pm and arrived home just before midnight! Many roads were closed, mostly in our area, cars abandoned on the road from running out of gas, several accidents, and cars that couldn't make it up the hills. I felt so bad for David and everyone else just trying to get home. An hour could pass by and he hadn't even moved an inch! There were school buses in our school district stuck on the roads until late at night, many students were stuck in their elementary schools, our school had a couple. But luckily we did not lose power like 1,500 other people in the next town and stayed warm. There are only 2 ways into our town. The main road was shut down for the night because of huge snow drifts. However sometime around 11 pm they opened up the windy background, which is the fastest way to our house and slowly let a few cars in at a time.

Seery did not want to go to bed until she saw her dad. She fell asleep on me finally after 11 pm. Aidan of course went to bed on time, when he is tired he goes to sleep no matter what. Seery... doesn't matter how tired she is once she decides to do something she does it. David carried her to bed. Obviously she didn't know that because she woke up in the middle of the night wanting to see her dad. She just loves him so much.

Well, we love our house, but we did not think about what winters would be like out here. With such limited access to our town, and being in the mountains... I guess there might be some very long commutes in the winter. (Had we realized that......)