Just had a nightmare picking dd up!!

[Dingle]

It has taken me nearly an hour to get to the nusery, (only about 5 minutes walks usually) and back home.

Firstly the snow was so deep I just couldn't push the buggy, it took so much strength and I was just going along like a snow plough!
Like a mad woman, I though, we'll be alright, just take a very slow walk home with dd.
Got there, school closing and the wanted me to take ds as well. He came out, soaking wet, no sock, no wellies! Waited and eventually got ready to face the snow, they had locked the side gate, so I had to march all the way round the school.
Before we were even out the school gate,dd's wellie had come off. She was moaning because the snow was going in her face (she seem to have a lot of sensory issues, that no-one is really helping us with!)and was refusing to walk. I picked her up and tried to carry her, but she is the size of a 5 yr old with DS, and almost 2.5 stone! I just couldn't do it.
I felt like just sitting down in the snow and crying my eyes out.
Back home at last I feel so exhausted and out of my depth, is life always going to be like this?
Something as stupid as getting the kids home from a school/nursery only minutes away and I felt like I had been adandoned in the middle of the Antartic!!

well wednesday he didnt get back till after 9!
and yesterday he couldnt get even past Faversham, took him 3 hours to drive to faversham then home again

Kids were off again!!! Havent a clue what is happening today

Think our school/nursery is open again today, but we are all feeling as if we are coming down with flu and I am just not going to make dd walk all the way to school and back 3 times today and it is still too bad for the buggy!
I will ring the school and tell them that we are not able to make it.

DH has just de-iced his car and is going in to work late, I think he is also hoping to get out a bit earlier too, just to avoid the worst of the traffic.

My mum has to get up to King's for dialysis today as she was snowed in and missed it on Wednesday! She said she was really tired yesterday but I haven't spoken to her yet today.

Hope hubby gets on better today Keane!

hope your mum gets on okay dingle dd's school is closed again but ds has gone into nursery, wish i hadnt of bothered, i feel down the concrete steps and have buggered my arm in, dd just kept whinging, the major buggy wobbled all over the place

Oh Keane, so sorry, are you OK?

DH didn't even get on the M2/M20, the road heading that way was blocked so he turned round and come back home with the intention of trying again. Since then we have had another downfall,leaving the roads in a terrible state, fresh snow covering up layers of solid sheet ice underneath!! He has given up and is meant to be doing some work from home!

Mum's abulance picked her up, but it's anyones guess how long it will take her, and what time she will get back home! It's not usually until 7-8pm on a good day!

it's days like this I wish i knew someone i could leave dd with whilst i fetched ds

I hope your mum gets there in time dingle!

I haven't tried the Major buggy in snow or ice yet, is it awful? If so I think I'm going to miss my old Monbebe pram which let me march along on icy pavements without a care in the world. Luckily (?!) I haven't had to take ds out this week as he has been home with a chest infection/conjuctivitis, plus dh has been home to look after him while I pick up dd.