Slowly rolling

Well, I did my first vermonty drive. In somewhat snowy/slushy roads, I drove the 75 mile roundtrip from E ST J to Montpelier. Though it worked out fine, I probably wouldn't have made the drive if I had know what most of the roads would be like. As in, I did about 30 mph on the return trip. Nice!

The roads were only bad in the sense of I wanted to drive slower that everyone else. But it all worked out, with no honking and little passing (quite a break from driving 20 mph below the speed limit around Portland). But things are still great here. there is so much snow everywhere that I feel like I'm on Mount Hood. I'm still on "vacation", ad I love our little house and our little road. We also have a nice Christmas Tree (something that I've only come around to in the last 5 years) and I'm actually getting excited about the impending white Christmas. Those holidays seem much better with a wife and child, I tell you.

And I'm getting back into the old swing of things. Watching movies and interneting and all of that... And I did more reading today than I have on any day for a long time.

We have been moving Elinor back and forth between our house and mom's with her little red sled. It's actually quite fun, quick and easy to pull her up and down the road in the snow!