It's Just Snow.....right?

I've always made fun of the fact that when the snow begins to fall here in Virginia and the roads are barely covered, schools close for the day. I mean my goodness, where I grew up, snow would have to be more than a foot deep before school officials would even consider closing for the day. Today humbled me. We awoke to 4 inches of snow so I called our friends and asked if we could come over for a day of sledding and she suggested that she and I could have some fun scrapbooking while the kids played. Great, it's a date! I'm not frightend about driving in snow, it's just snow and there wasn't to much of it either. A phone call to Barry just to make sure, and he said the main roads were okay, patches of snow here and there, the secondary roads were a bit more snowy, just be careful. Well, the roads that branch off the secondary roads were NOT clear. This I didn't count on. Once on the road to my friends house the going was slow and slippery. I almost made it to her driveway, but the ice was just to much and the tires could no longer hold any traction. I started to fish tail or spin in place. I had Ryan go and get help from our friend and she brought some salt pellets (they were meant to be added to her water softener). They helped, but there just wasn't enough salt to get the van to go where it needed to go. Soooo, I thought, I will just back slowly down the road in reverse, go get some sand or kitty litter and use that for traction to get up the road. Yeh, well that didn't work out so well. The back end of the van just slid to the side and ended up in the ditch. (See above photo)
So I left the van in the road and went to call Barry for help, my friend called her husband too. Barry said he would call a friend who owns a towing truck business to get me out, but he was busy and it would be a while till he could pull our van out. So I waited. After a half hour or so, I noticed that the snow was melting somewhat on the roads; my friend and I went out to see if we could get the van out now that the snow was melting some. "How great it would be" we thought "if we could get the van out before all the men showed up." We shoveled more salt and gravel to give the tires traction, but it didn't work. The tow truch guys showed up first, then my friends husband and they all saved the distressed females stranded in the snow. The truck pulled the van out, friends hubby moved the van into a more secure parking place and my hubby came to see that all was okay...plus I had to get the house key from him. (as we were leaving in the morning I asked Ryan to start the van so it could warm up. I asked him 2 times if he had my keys. "Yes, Mom I have your keys" Barry does not have a house key on his personal key chain, he has one on his work key set and I have one on mine. Ryan did not get my keys, he got Barry's personal key set. So, not only was I stranded in the ditch of snow, but, I was locked out of my house too.) Once the van was out and all was well once again we fed the kids, put the young ones down for a nap and got busy with the more important things of the day....scrapbooking

I was able to finish two double page spreads. This was of Christmas 2006

Here is the double page spread for Christmas 2008. Yea, I'm almost caught up with my family Christmas scrapbook album. If only this were true for the kids' albums.