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Icepacolypse 2015

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By Natalie
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Near death toll= Harris, pipes, furnace

Tuesday 2-17-15 = Ice storm

Wednesday= Natalie gingerly walks to work after picking up breakfast at Scratch where the other three sit and enjoy their food. Madeline playing outside, Margot napping, Harris goes outside, slips on the back stairs, and hits his head- hard - on the concrete steps. He blacked out, forgot part of the morning and after Natalie got home, he was taken to the ER. No crack to the skull or brain bleed, but he's on brain rest (no screens, quiet, rest, lots of sleep) for a head injury just the same.

Thursday = our lemon of a furnace is replaced. Coldest day in years, recording breaking really, and we have no heat downstairs while Harris is on brain rest upstairs. Girls leave the house for lunch and shopping. Natalie is sick, but not as sick as Harris. We wandered around the Trosa thirft store, southpoint mall, target...anywhere warm where the baby could be pushed in the stroller. I know we looked a fright.

Friday = wake up and the pipes are frozen. We had the conversation "Harris, I know you have a brain injury, which is better, sitting and keeping the girls quiet and warm upstairs or finding and thawing the frozen pipe in the crawlspace. He chose the crawlspace and after about 90 minutes we had running water again. Then we had breakfast and went to the brain injury follow up appointment.


And today, a week later, it is snowing.
Spring is in....three weeks? right?


So I give you BABY! with a messy house in the background. 

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