Bracing for Franken-storm

Well, we are due to get a lot of rain and snow this week. Hurricane Sandy is going to give us bad winds and there is apparently a massive cold front coming through. They are supposed to collide somewhere around us and give us an interesting week. We have wind advisories and winter weather advisories already for Monday through Wednesday. We will see how well everything goes with this commuting thing. Since all this collision is supposed to happen between now and Halloween, the experts have dubbed it "Frankenstorm" and that seems to be a good name for it.

This week A starts at a new daycare. It is a lot closer to work and seems to be a better place. Hopefully she will fit in well and not take any of her bad habits from the old daycare with her. We will see how she does. It also will adjust my schedule a bit as the daycare closes at 5. (Who ever heard of that?!) I will be working 730-430 now, so hopefully it goes well.


In our efforts to brace for this wonderful storm, Chris's father and step mother are here. They came for the weekend and it has been nice having them. On Friday they took A around lunch time, had lunch with Chris, and then hung out for the afternoon. Yesterday we went trick-or-treating at Grandfather Mountain. They had different keepers dressed up as animals, and A went as a butterfly. We didn't really get any good pictures of her since she was shy around the keepers. We went across the bridge though and A loved that. She walked across (again) and was trying to play around on it.

Here are a few pictures that my father-in-law took at the mountain. The animals were out and having a grand time in the pretty weather. It was overcast and dark clouds were definitely coming in, but it was warm.

Who knew bear tongues were so long?

We will see how this week goes and how our new car does in the bad weather. This past week it did well in the beautiful weather. We all like our new car, A especially. I hope all is well with you and that you have a safe and happy Halloween.