Tanya: It sounds like you've got great benefits at your new place of employment! That's wonderful! I had to accrue my time off when DS #2 was born and I could only accumulate 1 1/2 days per month so it took quite a bit of time to get the amount I needed to have paid time off; we couldn't afford for me to be off without pay; I did that with DS #1 and it was rough.
We're digging out from a major storm--Friday night it was so icy, the university closed early (3 pm) and the drive home was not nice. Saturday we couldn't even get out because of the wind, snow and accumulations. At this point we've have over 24" of snow from Friday night to Saturday night (7 pm); the official storm total hasn't been tallied yet. It's crazy! The snow is over the tops of our cars and we don't have room to shovel it anywhere!
More tomorrow.