A Snowy Saturday

We woke on Saturday morning to pretty heavy snow falling outside. My trusty, 4-wheel drive Jeep was dead in the water, with a useless, flat battery. Darn! Hubby was finally feeling better and he offered to drive me in his station wagon. One great thing about Hubby, he really knows how to drive in snow! Whew! I really wanted to go and see my daughter!

So about ten o’clock in the morning we headed out. I was a little bit of a nervous wreck, due to the snow, but on we went! Hubby needed to get gasoline, so we stopped at BJ’s Warehouse, and conveniently across the street is an Outlet Mall. And in that Outlet Mall is a Carter’s Outlet store! So in I went, where I proceeded to buy two very pretty pink outfits and a pink blanket, for my little granddaughter! In fact when I entered the store I stood for a moment and announced to the nice sales girls that, “IT’S A GIRL”!!! They were so nice, helping me find the things I bought for the baby.

We were back on the road heading south, and with each mile we went, the snow seemed to get heavier and heavier. Not good. We saw two accidents on the way down. One car skidded off the road, and probably scared the driver to death, and the other was an actual flip of the car, and I understand the driver was air lifted to Boston.

We finally arrived at the restaurant about 5 minutes early. I was seated and I was speaking to the manager telling him that we were celebrating my daughter’s pregnancy, and learning that it was a girl!

Mandy and Matt arrived and lunch started. We all had delicious food and talked about the baby, the future and life. It was so wonderful!

She is getting a cute baby-bump and allowed me to take a picture, but I do not think my blog is a place to share it. I will share the picture above, as I think you can see how happy we are!

There is no name yet, just Baby-Girl! Time. Time will tell, what name will fit their little girl.

We had yummy desserts and when the check came, the manager told us that Mandy’s dessert was on the house! I thought that was so sweet!!!

We said good-bye and headed off. The roads in Nashua were still bad, and we saw another accident, but as we drove north, home, they seemed to improve.

We needed to stop at LL Bean to get the zipper on my jacket fixed, but when I went in, the saleswoman suggested a find another coat instead. She told me it often takes 2 months to get something fixed. By then, winter will be over! So I looked around and found this coat:

They looked up and saw when I bought my jacket (2005) and I payed $59.00. Here we are in 2012 and they gave me a full credit of $59.00. This coat’s price was $79.00 and after using a $10.00 coupon I payed $10.00! It is nicely insulated and as you can see stadium length! I shall miss my old light blue jacket, pictured in the side bar. It was such a nice comfortable coat!

Then we went off to Sam’s Club where I witnessed a woman yelling at a disabled employee. This young man is a wonderful, hard worker, and she made him cry with her cruelty. The manager was handling things with the young man very well, talking with him, listening to him, but I felt real anger well up inside of me toward the abusive woman! I made sure that the management knew that I appreciated this man and that I felt he is a good hard worker.

Then Hubby and I headed home, where we were greeted by the doggies! Talk about pure happiness and joy! I’m not sure if they missed us, wanted to eat or wanted to go outside and run around in the snow. It’s okay, after 30 minutes, they had done all three!!!

Now it’s time to sit back and put up my feet. What a great time we had with Mandy and Matt and it was actually kind of nice driving in the snow, with the trees looking so pretty.