LIFE WITH KIDDOS
The obligatory house-in-the-snow picture. Processed with VSCO with a6 preset.
When it comes to dealing with a winter storm, we all seem to follow the same script.
It’s entertaining to see how similar we are in extraordinary–if not unexpected or familiar–circumstances.
I’m talking, of course, about what we do when it snows in the South. We thin-blooded folk follow predictable routines, flooding the grocery stores in the preceding hours of precipitation to obsessively purchase bread and milk. Further, based on my own trip to the market, we also keenly stocked the ingredients for chili–though not as barren as the bread aisle, the holding places for kidney beans, ground beef, sour cream, and shredded cheddar cheese were noticeably sparse.
Many people my age joke about needing to stock up on wine. My mother, who works at a nursing home, packs an overnight bag in anticipation of working multiple shifts and not being able to make it back to the house.
