

One of Those Days
It was one of those December days in Minnesota, the ones where a load of snow is dropped onto your driveway and you're the only adult around to tackle it. You can't just ignore it because the snow plow left a mountain that you won't be able to back over without leaving your tailpipe behind. Back when my kids were little and my husband worked crazy pre-Christmas retail hours, I had to shovel if he was going to make it to the garage (yep, no snow blower back then). I often re