Texas was CLOSED today!

We do NOT handle ICE well in Texas!!

So the majority of the state just closed today!

We may reopen tomorrow - late in the afternoon!!

But then SNOW is in the forecast for Wednesday!

At LAST we are getting some W.I.N.T.E.R.

Deanie and I heard about the impending ice storm on Sunday morning so we decided to come on home last night instead of waiting until today! Good thing we DID! We had HOPED to watch the Oscars together but both of us sent word to our husbands to record them. It will not be any where NEARLY as much fun as watching them together but we can now fast forward through them!

One more good night of sleep under our eye balls and we were ready to leave San Antonio and head for home yesterday!

We did NOT leave the hotel room before having coffee and Mexican pastries!

Food for travel!!

My beautiful sister!!! 

LOVE those dimples, don't you???

I 'softened' myself nearly beyond recognition! Haha!!

I was rested and relaxed but not looking my best!

Some people have bad hair days. Sometimes I have bad face pic days. 

On our way north on I35 we stopped in Austin to visit with Deanie's son and his family.

They had prepared a delicious brunch of breakfast casserole, hash browns, fresh fruit, yogurt and granola, coffee and juice......the whole nine yards!

We had a great visit and caught up with family news. Deanie's three grandsons were SO much fun!!!

Would you believe I did not take ONE picture??

From there we did an HEB grocery store run! You KNOW how I love HEB stores!

Back on the highway, we stopped at Starbucks.....

and a kind customer offered to take our last photo together for this trip.

It turned cold and started to rain shortly after we left.

It was so GOOD to be cozy in our homes by the time the ice began to fall.

This was the way we looked this morning.

Green grass poking up through the ice.

Fall leaves, winter ice and green grass springing up all in one pic.

The fountain runs despite the ice around it.

Louis Dean wanted a lunch that had some FLAVOR to it!

Trader Joe's stir fry vegetables and chicken won tons!

I did 'Damage Control' today and it wasn't all that bad.

Louis Dean is learning to clean up after himself.

He took the sheets off the bed, washed them and put them back on!

ALL the pieces were there, too!

The last time he did this, he decided to dry the down comforter outdoors and draped it OVER the umbrella above the patio picnic table. It took me DAYS to find it!!!

This time he even put the sheets on right sides together - just the way I do it!

The only REAL 'Damage Control' was in the kitchen. When I tried to pick up a salt shaker that usually lives in the cupboard, I found it STUCK to the counter!

 And for SOME reason the coarse sea salt container was on the counter - empty - with coarse sea salt all over the place. It could have been SO much worse!!! It HAS been so much worse in past times!!!

Lucy is glad I'm home and she has stayed pretty close to the fireplace all day long.

Maddie is never far from Louis Dean whenever he sits down.

She is such a pretty little cat and fits in with us perfectly!!!

Staying IN and staying WARM tonight!

Hope YOU are, as well!!!