Outside the snowing is pinging on the windows, and Nome is in a blizzard warning. I would be lying if I said I didn't want to have a snow day tomorrow! We had a lazy weekend, nothing that HAD to be done which in my opinion is the best kind of weekend. Saturday morning we went to a small craft fair. Andrew bought some coffee from the Ski team that was selling Nanook Joe for a fundraiser. Saturday night I went to a Christmas party out at our friend Erika's house (the one with the honey bucket). It was a really fun night decorating cookies, eating lots of food, and doing a white elephant Christmas exchange. Apparently in Nome white elephant means nice gifts (which I knew before hand thankfully). I brought some caramel corn, caramels, and English toffee that I made. I got a really pretty piece of pottery one of the other girls made. Someone else got a onsie for a baby that said "Future Nanook" that she had no use for so she gave it to me.
We have a 4 day week this week, and leave on the 9:39 pm flight on Thursday. We travel to Anchorage, leave Anchorage at 1 am, get to Portland, OR at 5 am, and leave Portland to Minneapolis at 6:37 am. Hopefully we will arrive in MN at noon on Friday. We have started to pile stuff into a corner, getting it ready to pack up. Hopefully the week will go quickly as we are both quite excited to be coming home. We both are looking forward to seeing everyone and I am looking forward to being in a place with more food choices. Nome is somewhat limited as far as gluten free foods.
Some of you have been asking how I have been feeling lately: thank you! I am feeling better lately. I haven't thrown up since Thanksgiving which is wonderful. I have a doctor's appointment in Plymouth for a week from this Monday. We are hoping that the doctor says that everything is AOK with the baby.
Safe driving to those in the storm areas. I have heard from a couple people that it is pretty nasty down there.
See you all in a week or so!
3 comments:
If a white elephant gift is nice, maybe a white reindeer gift is tacky?! We were graced with a foot of snow and at noon it is -12...not seeing too much progress on the temp front. We made caramels yesterday too...they are in cold storage waiting for the caramel crew. Safe journeys...sounds like plenty of connections.
I love that Wanda has a blog picture. She's so high-tech! Anyway, I just wanted to wish you safe travels. Looking forward to seeing you both very soon. :)
I am looking at the weather in Nome right now and it is 22 degrees warmer there than here! Hard to believe. Also, great to see the daylight has increased about 1 hour 15 minutes. Can you notice a difference there in daylight?
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