mid-winter news

It is snowing like crazy right now.  Columbia Public Schools did the right thing by cancelling school today even before the first flake fell.  University of Missouri is also closed.  Poor dogs just don't know what to think of having both of us home ALL DAY!
I had a snow day yesterday, too.  Mid-Missouri was still feeling the affects of the freezing rain/drizzle that happened Friday evening.  It was an A-day and I had to stay later than usual for a club meeting so I ventured out not only in the freezing drizzle but in going-home traffic, Those two factors stretched a twenty-minute drive from Rock Bridge high school into an hour-long commute!  I came home to a beautiful bouquet of roses from Steve.  We celebrated 39 years of marriage that night with a home-cooked steak dinner and strawberry pie and by watching "Groundhog Day".  That winter storm cancelled an RTO performance Saturday afternoon and Sarah's moving plans and a date with Sarah to finally see "Frozen".  It also cancelled almost all Sunday church meetings from Columbia northward.  While the main roads were fine, the neighborhood streets and rural roads were still treacherous.  The YSA branch DID meet so Steve and I took the truck and picked up Sarah.  We braved the long, curvy, ice and snow-covered driveway, we avoided hitting her car that was stranded in the yard, and we attended church with the young single adults.    By Sunday evening, most of the residential streets were salted and drivable but the rural roads were still bad enough to call off classes Monday. 
And, we have a snow day tomorrow.  Wow, all this free time!  What an amazing gift. I finished disc 2 of season 3 of Downton Abby yesterday.  The final disc is supposed to arrive tomorrow.  Eeeee, can't wait. Last Wednesday, Steve and I went to see the "Saratov Approach"  - can't believe a Utah movie made it all the way out to Missouri.  We were the only two people in the theater which was too bad. It is a very well made film. 
I have a new calling.  I was released as a counselor in the stake Relief Society presidency and sustained as the stake single adult adviser.  I will work in a committee comprised of Cindy, the stake RS president, Mark Burris, the high counselor over single adults, and Steve, the stake presidency member responsible for that group.  I means I will still travel around the stake - with Steve usually.  I am also a substitute seminary teacher and I taught three days last week. 
Time to close and practice the cello - we have a CCO concert coming up soon and the Berloiz is hard!