i don't know why i thought i could do a blog tonight. i'm so tired and empty of all creativity.

i'm in nanaimo and there is a lot of snow here and it just keeps snowing and snowing and snowing. having so much snow is a novelty but that's worn off now. i'm ready for it to stop so it's not hard driving around anymore. know what i mean?

bethany and i are sharing the baby's room. the unborn babe. it's filled mostly with our flabby air mattress that shoots the air out before you can get the cap on it. outside our little window is a fierce and thick sabor toothed icicle that goes from the edge of the roof almost all the way down to the ground. it's a fearsome thing to behold and would kill a man if provoked. i've taken a picture of it, naturally and will post it sooner or later.

we thought church might be cancelled today, but kyle was sure that it wouldn't be and that's because he knows things. and the thing he knew about was that today was the making of a new ward in nanaimo. the new nanaimo ward, and no more other wards exist in nanaimo now. seems strange but good too.

i wore elicia's gum boots to church. sarah and kyle left earlier than us in kyle's truck. i went out after them and brushed whinnie off. (thanks to lisa for giving me yet ANOTHER ice scraper but with a long brush on it and thanks to edith for showing me the thourough way to shake down a car). it was cold and icy and windy but i perservered and made sure i even knocked the ice off of my one working wind shield wiper. preshus grimaced with cold from her waiting spot at the front door. when we did get going, whinnie did not like the loose high ruts of snow on the corners. especially when crossing bowen road. but preshus had said a prayer and we made it to church safely. hardly anyone was there, but there were a row of boots and gum boots by the door. elicia's boots joined them.

we sat with katie and brent in the second row. i shared my hymnbook with michealah and elizabeth who liked to hold a corner of the book. natalie gave me a thin strip of gum, "not grown up gum", she whispered to me. i bit it in half and gave the other half to preshus who was hankering after gum, allbeit not that kind of gum. beggers can't be choosers and all that.

after church i sat with katie in the font room as she nursed and we discussed the changes. she was released which is hard especially when she puts so much heart into her callings.

preshus and i made it home despite difficult roads and missing lovelay's house the first time around. lovelay and preshus made us yummy tuna sandwiches for lunch. and we had naps. and we started doing a story. and we had a yummy supper of sweet and sour meatballs. and we worked on stories more. lovelay and i started a story of our own. lovelay and preshus made cookies. i played with adriel and watched backyardigans. preshus hates pablo. lovelay despises preshus's weights being in the house. tit for tat.

we played consequences...aGAIN. we had played it on the ferry yesterday. because of all the story writing and illustrating and because of yesterday's efforts and because we were tired, it was a case of extreme results. we were all pushed to the limit. we all came up with some doozies. at one point, when preshus was reading i almost started crying (well i kind of half cried) because laughing is so close to crying and i was so tired.

now lovelay and her family are in bed. me and preshus are up and this is all i can bring myself to write at this time.

the end.