SNOW DAY!!

Howdy! Another SNOW DAY here in the Frozen North. Funny, because my daughter has missed two days of school and today she wakes up FEVER FREE and ready to rumble. AND Friday is a half day. She could have phoned it in this week. Our trip to the doctor yesterday did point out that, had we not gotten flu shots earlier in the season, her flu would have hit her much harder. Thanks goodness for modern medicine, eh?

I am just reading a collection of diaries from women crossing this country in the 1800's when the West was settled. What they had to endure! Just being a chick was hard enough. Throw in child birth and long skirts.....ouch! A cholera epidemic swept through the trail as well as dysentery, etc. The women noted the graves they passed every day. In one three day period they passed over 40 graves, hastily dug. Never being completely dry, having to cook over an open flame in a treeless landscape, never having a chance to completely wash.... It was said that the absence of women were hard on the ones travelling. That three women could use their shirts to offer privacy to each other. Not to mention the comfort of someone understanding your personal hardships.

The more I read about the settlement of this country it is AMAZING to me that people live west of the Mississippi. Ya know??

Hats off to hard working women. The men may have made the decision to push West but it was the women who insured they would make it in one (nearly) piece!