The Sewing Mom

My birthday was earlier this week and to celebrate, I bought myself and my family tickets to see Phantom of the Opera!

My husband and I saw this fabulous musical 20 years ago in Los Angeles and tonight we will be taking our daughter to see the live performance here in Dallas. I am so excited and hope it lives up to all the wonderful memories I have of it. Of course, my daughter is having trouble deciding what to wear (she is 14 after all) and my husband has yet to come home, but in the end, it will be worth the trip downtown I am sure!  For now, I sit here waiting to go, tickets in hand.

I hope you all have a wonderful evening, I know I will!

If you had as tough a week as I did you might be in need of some light humor like I was. I received this in an email and got quite a kick out of it. Thought I would share it with you and hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

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Scroll down if you want to see the snowman I made just a couple of weeks ago, right in my own front yard. While my daughter and I had a lot of fun playing in the snow, we really did move to the south to get away from all that white stuff and I really don’t enjoy being cold. That’s probably why I’m enjoying this weeks weather so much more. It’s iin the 60’s and the sun is warming us all up. Before long we’ll be seeing the flowers in bloom and I can’t wait!

The weather lately has been so completely unpredictable! I don’t think that’s only the case in Dallas, but it seems to be true just about everywhere. Now that softball season is starting back up, I sort of like to be able to plan what I need to wear out to the fields. Do I need a coat or just a sweatshirt? Long sleeves or short? Will we get rained out or just a delay?

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snowman Feb 12 2010, originally uploaded by the_sewingmom1.

This is actually one of two snowmen my daughter and I built the day we got around 13 inches of the fluffy white stuff here in the Dallas area. There are no slow plows here so the snow sticks around until the sun decides to return and melt it. We had plenty of time to play in it and we took full advantage, even though we no longer own any proper winter clothes to be playing outside in!

Snow in Texas, originally uploaded by the_sewingmom1.

It is hard to believe that this is what I was looking at less than 2 weeks ago when I stood outside my front door. We live just northeast of downtown Dallas and we received 13 inches of the white stuff in a 24 hour period. This set all kinds of records and made me question why we ever left Chicago, leaving our snow blower behind!

If you live somewhere that gets snowfall on a regular basis, it is probably difficult for you to understand why this is such a hardship here in the Dallas area. Basically, it comes down to this. Texas doesn’t own a snow plow. Not a single one. As you can see from the photo, the roads were completely covered and this photo was taken around 8 in the morning. Up north, these streets would have all ready been cleared!

We also don’t own a real coat anymore. We left the parkas behind when we moved south, along with the snow shovels, sleds and snow blower. This was excellent, wet, snowman building snow. So, my daughter and I layered up the best we could and headed out. We built 2 of the best snowman we’ve ever built (I forgot to upload those pics) all while wearing jeans (you know how they soak up the cold moisture), sweatshirts, and some thin driving gloves. But, we did have a blast and enjoyed the beauty of the day.

I am glad the snow is gone though. As pretty as it was it made for very dangerous conditions here. There were mass power outages, people without heat, and people, including me, who couldn’t get to work. I am definitely looking forward to Spring.