Hang on to your hats... this is gonna get lengthy.

I've got so much go catch up on here that I seriously had a list entitled: Blog this stuff. Then Sophie destroyed it. Now I'm just winging it. So we'll start with Monday and work through the week. Like a top twenty countdown. In fact, we'll just do it like that.

20. Monday. Jacob left for school Sunday night. We knew there was a big storm predicted so I had already packed up the kids clothes and such and went to Momma's house. No one wants to be snowed in with two toddlers and no help. At least I don't, anyway. I left derby practice early that night when we heard it start sleet. It didn't take long for the roads to ice over. Boo.

19. Lot's of ice here, kids. No school. Then the snow started.

18. Now my memory gets fuzzy... we lost power somewhere in this time, and phone. The power was out at home longer than at moms. I am really a homebody by nature, and though I had a great time with Mom and was thankful for the light and heat, I was ready to go home. I finally went home on...

17. Wednesday night. Sophie had played in the snow and all was well, and then when she was walking up the stairs she tripped and hurt her foot. She really hurt it. Like wouldn't walk on it, no pressure on it, nothing. She at first would just collapse when you put her down, then eventually she resorted to this pitiful side hobble. When she woke up from her nap and was still hurting I took her to the...

16 Emergency Room. X-Rays showed she hadn't broken anything, and really I was surprised. But, I'm glad I took her anyway. I would've felt bad if I had waited and it was broken. Anyway, back at home...

15 Um... Jacob just told me that it was Thursday night when she went to the er. My bad. My days are a bit mixed up.

14. Home... No water. It seems that the power outages have affected the city water pumps and when the water tower pressure ran out, so did the water. Which apparently is the perfect time for the kids to have a...

13. Poop-a-thon. Seriously. First Keegan threw a basketball into the toilet, that had not been flushed yet, and now there was grossness all over the ball. Then Sophie decided to try to go poopy in the potty, but she had already gone in her diaper, so there was poop on her potty chair, the adult potty and the smaller potty chair that goes on the adult potty. Not to mention her hands, legs and clothes. No water to help clean. Nice.

12. Poison Control. Keegan got into my humidifier and ate some of the Vapo Steam that goes into it. Lot's of milk later he is good to go and I am really ready for Jacob to come home.

11. Friday was Mom's shoulder surgery. She is currently in massive amounts of pain. Please pray for her.

10. Jacob was supposed to be home around 7:30 on Friday. We figured that with time for slow going due to snow. What we didn't count on was the massive car accident that held up traffic on the highway for hours so he didn't get home until 9:30, just in time to tuck the kids in.

9. Jacob has to leave tomorrow. Boo. Sophie really had a hard time with him gone his week. I honestly didn't expect her to care much, but she was really upset that he was gone. The first thing she asked him on the phone Monday night was if he was going to come home now because she missed him. It made both Jacob and I cry.

8. Since she missed him so much she is going to go with me on Thursday night to see him. There is a banquet for the officers and his graduation is Friday and she'll go with me. She was going to stay with a sitter, but now just K-man will. I think she will manage the long car ride, the long ceremony and the dinner. I hope so anyway.

7. Jacob hopefully will start his job in the schools on the 11th. Day shift, here we come. He really thinks he will like it a lot, he is enjoying the training even though there is a LOT of work that goes with it. I think he will be a wonderful DARE officer and am excited to see him start.

6. You'll have to forgive me for the lack of comments on your blogs lately. I've not even begun to catch up, I've just been busy.

5. But not busy with work. With school being out for so long I am seriously not sure how my semester is going to go, I've already missed several meetings with several schools. Add that to a second job I'll start soon and you've got an interesting spring lined up. When I say interesting here you can read busy. Ugh.

1. Notice I skipped a few numbers. I'm totally ok with that.