If you are not living it, have not been watching the news or been reading this blog, here is a news flash: We are having a terribly cold winter on the prairie. Thankfully it quit snowing for a few weeks now and Nathan does not need to clear out our road and driveway a couple times a day. However the temperatures have remained way below average and it is downright bitterly cold. All of this is coming from a native North Dakotan. However my mom always told me that God accidentally put me in the wrong family. I really belonged on a California beach. My nose and toes are always cold. Always. Marrying a North Dakota boy, moving to his hometown and having him take over a family business pretty much has me and our family locked into these winters for decades to come. At least ten years. Nathan and I always say you cannot plan for anything past ten years. (Thus the reason we are not getting too worked up about the extremely low balances in our 401K and IRA’s…we’ll still be working in ten years.)Hunter is relishing in the winter. He has become an outdoor, avid cold weather enthusiast–wearing my ski pants (men’s medium tall…scary that those fit him) instead of his ripped snow pants. You may noticed a lack of photos of Hunter. First, he is eleven years old and not overly thrilled with his mother snapping pictures of him. But mostly, the pictures would be the same thing over and over again–snowmobiling or fort building!
This brutally cold winter has led to some family travel partners for me on some upcoming business trips. The fortunate thing is escape winter with business travel to warmer, domestic locations and this week my grandma is heading south with me to visit her only sister while I attend a few day of meetings, a trade show and generally schmooze= business development. We will be in Phoenix and I do have reservations at what is my husband’s favorite restaurant with a few colleagues. He has reminded me several times of that…but not to worry. Nathan is escaping south to golf with a friend while I have meetings in South Carolina later this winter. Most of these trips I am inside 95% of the time but I do hope to get some walks outside to take in some sunshine and just take in some deep breaths of warm air. Hopefully I will be thawed before boarding to return to my favorite place on the entire planet…home. No what the temperature is, how much snow there is or how the wind is howling, as long as I am in our warm home with my family seeing sunrises like the above each morning, I am happy. And thus ends my ramble…
This brutally cold winter has led to some family travel partners for me on some upcoming business trips. The fortunate thing is escape winter with business travel to warmer, domestic locations and this week my grandma is heading south with me to visit her only sister while I attend a few day of meetings, a trade show and generally schmooze= business development. We will be in Phoenix and I do have reservations at what is my husband’s favorite restaurant with a few colleagues. He has reminded me several times of that…but not to worry. Nathan is escaping south to golf with a friend while I have meetings in South Carolina later this winter. Most of these trips I am inside 95% of the time but I do hope to get some walks outside to take in some sunshine and just take in some deep breaths of warm air. Hopefully I will be thawed before boarding to return to my favorite place on the entire planet…home. No what the temperature is, how much snow there is or how the wind is howling, as long as I am in our warm home with my family seeing sunrises like the above each morning, I am happy. And thus ends my ramble…
Girl…where and when will you be in SC?