Christmas Eve Snowed In

Moiya is snowed in for New Year's Eve.  More snow than David Pilling has ever seen, even when he lived there in his youth.

Desiree, Brandon and the kids are there -- Aiden, Celeste, Parker, Tanner, and Seth.

So their New Year's Eve is without electricity and  left-overs for food.

The hot dogs from a couple of days ago are being cooked on the pot bellied stove.

There is some hot chocolate -- mostly for warmth.  The martinellis, which Moiya can pull out of a cupboard, makes the evening seem festive.

Moiya had taken out a  casserole that can can be warmed on the pot bellied stove and bedding and sleeping bags laid down on the floor so that is where the children get to sleep tonight:  next to the warmth of the wooden stove.

There are many candles lit.  And people are living with flashlights.

It gets dark right now -- at about 4 pm.  And Moiya said she has been wanting to turn the lights on all day, even though it is light out.

Celeste said to her grandmother, We are living just like pioneers.  You have a nice house grandmother."