That's what I said, after 4 months Jori is now here with us for the Christmas holidays. I dropped off Sheldon and the boys at church this morning then headed off to Amsterdam to pick up Jori from the airport. Well, it's been snowing the past couple days so the roads were a little yucky this morning. After getting out of Eindhoven the roads were drivable but I had to stay well below the speed limit. About 30 minutes into the drive I got stuck behind the snow plows. How they do it here in the Netherlands is they have 3 snowplows that stagger the lanes so they make it virtually impossible to pass them at all. The only problem to me was that the roads were clear so there was really no need for them to to keep the road blocked like that. I had to follow them for over an hour and they only went 20 mph:( Talk about frustrating. Finally I was able to to get about 10 miles out then the snow started to come down really hard, almost whiteout conditions. I ended up being over an hour late getting Jori, and the poor thing was wondering what was going on since she couldn't call me to find out. Coming home we had a lot of snow up until 15 miles out of Eindhoven. Needless we got to the church with 15 minutes left for sacrament meeting. We missed the whole program, the singing and things. I guess half the ward knew I was on the road driving to get Jori and when we walked in fine they were all relieved. Talk about how sweet!
All day we've had snow coming down so after lunch the kids went out for a little while to play in it. We finally found some boots and gloves but this will motivate me to go and get the things we need for the kids this week. I'm sure once I get it all, the snow will melt and we won't have anymore for the year, but at least the boys are ready for their skiing trip in March. It sure is beautiful to watch coming down, and the fields around the house look so pretty. We really love living out here.
Some members in the ward are having a birthday party tonight but the roads are a little slippery and we are all really exhausted. Jori feel asleep on the couch and I have a tired headache from the little sleep I've had this week. I think I'll get to bed early tonight, and tomorrow get up early to make a list of what we need to do the next couple of days to get ready for Christmas.
We will have about 14 people all together for Christmas Eve. It will be a nice evening and hopefully the food will be good;) I just want to have a fun night with everyone. We are looking forward to it.
Hopefully tomorrow I'll get some pictures of the kids out in the snow and post them. I need to get better at that!
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