Now here's the part where you all say "How cold was it" and we show you this picture of our exploded pop can. We had been enjoying the ability to leave pop out on our porch for a free way to keep it ice cold without cluttering up our refrigerator. Obviously we had to come up with plan b after our sub-zero temperatures created a 4 can explosion. Thankfully tomorrow night is supposed to be our last night of single digit temperatures for a few days. Hopefully we will be thawed soon.We could also use the exploded can as a metaphor for my head, but it is much better. I managed to make it through the day without any cold medicine, and the only issue I've dealt with is lack of hearing. But, with a noisy dog and noisy Abby in the house my muffled hearing is almost a blessing in disguise.
Abby has been entering a new stage - deliberate disobedience. We are not too excited about her finally reaching an age where she purposely does things we've told her not to do. Our biggest problem is her constantly turning the t.v. on and off. I will admit, we found it funny and didn't address it right away, so we are partly to blame for the problem. So today, we tried doing a time out for not listening when I told her not to touch the t.v. power button. Let's just say that time outs were not working for us today, mostly because I couldn't stop laughing. Abby apparently loved being in time out and started doing her little Abby dance, cracking up, and in general enjoying her time in the "naughty chair". We are going to have to reconsider time out - it isn't going to be very effective if it's too fun. 