What a beautiful white Christmas

Snow drifts up to my head and all snuggled inside. What a beautiful white Christmas.
I love being with everyone I love! Aaron's here from Boston and Drew has moved from Florida. I feel so lucky to have such a wonderful family and such a loving fiance.

Now my trip to family from Lincoln was not such an easy one! I started on the 23rd...my ma's birthday :) it was raining in the morning, but not yet freezing. After I made it out of Lincoln it started freezing over and the sleet started falling. My knuckles were white on my steering wheel and I was wishing that I wouldn't have left home. My tires could barely find traction up hills and my car felt like the little train that could... 'cept I was starting to doubt that it could. The slush was building up on the highway and I was fighting to keep a straight line. I slowed down to 40mph thinking I was being conservative in my little 4 cylinder, 5-speed, no anti-lock break car. I hit a rut with my back tires and the mayhem began. I started swerving slightly...and then the swerves got bigger. All I said was, "oh shit oh shit!" haha I knew I was heading into a full out spin. And I did...I did about 3 spins. In my lane first and then over into oncoming traffic and then into the snow drift in the ditch. :( I had never gotten stuck before so I was scared. Making trembling-voiced calls to Drew and Dad, I was trying to call for a tow truck to get me out. I saw everyone looking at me as they drove by but nobody stopped. All the sudden a red truck that had passed circled around to me and the gal got out. She said, "you from 7-county? Are you headed to Norfolk?" yeah! She asked if I wanted a ride! So I literally unpacked my car and snuggled in with them as we made our 4 hour journey to Norfolk! I happened to know the couple too! Now, it's folks like these who make Christmas...who understand the Christmas spirit. She didn't know that she knew me when she made the stop, but she was willing to bend her schedule enough to turn my horrible start of a Christmas into a huge blessing. Thanks Jill Wilson :) And thanks to my Dad who then drove all the way back to Seward the same day to drag my car out of the ditch! And Drew who helped him!

Merry Christmas to all
May you be blessed with abounding love this Christmas season