Snow Brush For Sale!

We were up and on the road at 5:30 this morning, taking Matt to work and feeling a little sad that he wouldn't come home until at least noon tomorrow. But then, like a ray of sunshine, we remembered something wonderful! That we may never again get up early in the morning and have to do THIS: 

Woo hoo!! Hahahaha! Yippee! What a great trade! This actually cheered us up enough to almost not care anymore about 30-hour+ shifts in the NICU, or getting to work by 5:30 every morning this month. We realized, wow, we get up early in the morning, and we aren't crippled with cold. We don't ever see our breath! We don't sit in the car shivering and utterly miserable, waiting for the heater to kick in. In fact, we don't even turn the heater ON! Woo hoo! The inside of our car never gets muddy, salty, nasty snow all over it! (Neither do the insides of our shoes. :)) And, best of all, we don't have to worry about knowing when to wake up an hour earlier with the car needing to be scraped out (that is TORTURE any time of day, but especially at 5:00 in the morning!) and the roads so icy it will take an extra 50 minutes to drive the few miles to work. We just get in the car, Matt in his scrubs and me in my pajamas and flip-flops and Seth in his pajama shorts, and we just...go.... Imagine! We start the car, and we drive.... Beautiful. 

And I haven't yet woken up in the middle of the night with a sense of doom that the pinkish haze through the window means it's already snowing, even though it's early Fall (there always seemed to be at least one early snow that would strip the pretty leaves right away! Sadness...). Hurray, Hurray, Hurray, Hurray!! And it's even rained a few times! Ah.... Lovely rain. (We can't wait for the proper rainy Winter! :)) It's been fabulous.