(Editor’s note: This post has been sitting around a couple weeks….)
It’s been quite a weekend for our family. Fort Worth looked a little bit like Minnesota last week, when we got 12 inches of snow in one day. Practically shut the city down! I wouldn’t have been so bad, but we lost our power. Had it been just Jason and I, we would have piled the blankets on the bed and toughed it out. But it was way too cold for little Miss Maya! So we headed to a hotel Thursday night.
We wish her first night in a hotel had been under better circumstances, but she did pretty well anyway. She was probably a little confused when Jason was trying to pack up with a flashlight! I was at work for the night so I met them at the hotel when I got off, and Maya was already asleep in her pack-and-play.
A little snow does wonders for the beauty of any city, and despite all the downed tree branches, it was fun to see snow covering Fort Worth. It was Maya’s first Texas snow (she got to see plenty in Minnesota over Christmas) and it was Bailey’s first significant snow. He’s been around for dustings, but nothing like 12 inches, and he LOVED it! He was running around in circles as soon as we let him out. He loved chasinng his ball and losing it in the snow. And he’d stick his snout in it and enjoy some for a snack, too.
Finally three days later our power is back. Luckily we had planned to head to Shreveport the weekend for Mardi Gras, so that couldn’t have worked out any better. We were happy to have a place to keep warm!