snow in the kitchen

For some reason we decided to watch a movie last night.  We started it really late, and about half way through Teoman joined us.  He had woken up, and when he saw the movie was about space, space ships and astronauts - well, he was wide awake.  Dinosaurs and movie theaters scare him.  Spaceships impress him.  When we all finally went to bed - Teoman had LOTS of questions about space and spaceships.  He lay in bed with his hands folded behind his head and eyes wide open.  Thinking.

Tomris woke up too.  She was fussing.  I had the light off - and she wanted water as she usually does when she wakes up.  I turned on the light and saw that her eye lids were almost glued shut.  She had the same eye infection as Teoman did almost two weeks ago.  I'm pretty sure it was pink eye - and Tomris's looked even more so like it - but in both eyes.  I brought her to the bathroom.  She was crying and her voice was croaky.  I took a warm cloth to her eyes and gently washed all the guck off her eyes.  She calmed down and eventually took over the washing herself - becoming fascinated in the guck on her eyes.  

I sat with her in a chair because she was coughing too.  We sat them both up and gave them spoonfuls of honey, some vapor rub on their chests, and humidifiers already on.  It was 3am or later before we slept.  

I woke up with Tomris - I was sleeping in the recliner chair as I am changing all night long my positions and sleeping places - its hard to get comfortable.  The window was casting a strange morning light - the whitening reflection of snow.  Sure enough, when I looked out - not only had it snowed, but we were in the midst of a snow storm.  Just yesterday it had reached over 50 degrees, and now big wet flakes were coming right at the window.  I opened the window to feel the fresh cold air - but the snow blew in.  We live on the 9th floor of an apartment building - so the wind can be pretty strong.  We looked out the front window and several car wrecks had already happened.  It's not that people were driving fast - but the intersection in front of our house is busy with hills in all directions - which wouldn't be serious if the roads were plowed and salted - but they had hardly been touched.  So while people were going slowly - one by one, cars thought they could make it safely down a hill, and the hill just sucked them into the side, piling them up one by one.  

snow collected from the windows

We watched the pile up from the window for a while.  Men trying to wave people away or around, or even "catch" the smaller cars that were helplessly sliding into theirs.  

I collected the snow from the window sills and put it in the wash bin to make indoor snowmen.  They may be sick and couldn't go outside to play - but we could find some to bring inside.