Winter wonderland

So right now I'm totally snowed in, in every way possible. I went up to Kelowna for a week and had a most wonderful week- staying up late every night, going for 2 am walks in the snow and watching the flakes drift down in the orange light of street lamps....tobboganning, sitting by a crackling fire, playing scrabble and cards and dominoes (I lost horribly), hanging out with friends, watching movies (I finally saw the Dark Knight), eating oranges and chocolate and eggnog and having a wonderful time. Yesterday Will and I started the treacherous drive home and to make a long story short, we ended up stranded in Aggasiz with a broken down car, no cellphone, no tools, no warm blankets, and yes, I had left my wool socks behind in Kelowna.
To make the even longer miraculous story shorter, I spent christmas eve eve sleeping on Will's shoulder in the cab of a tow truck with tendrils of cigarette smoke curling around the cab and outside the snow was falling.
This morning I woke up in my own bed and realized I have a broken down car and the airport is shut down and I'm supposed to leave for Chicago in just over a week and apparently the snow is just going to keep falling. I think I would be excited about the adventure but the fact is, I'm not just snowed in physically, I feel a bit snowed in emotionally.
I feel like I left part of myself behind in Kelowna and I wish I was there but at the same time of course I want to be home in Vancouver for christmas.... of course I do. I love my family and I wanted to see the look on my nieces' faces when they open their presents and I want to sit by the christmas tree and play scrabble with my mom and have eggnog drinking competitions with my brothers and all the wonderful christmas things we do.....
Several years ago a man I hardly knew prophesied over me and told me that I had laid plans, but that God was going to turn them upside down. That he knew the desires of my heart and was going to give them to me, but in a way that was different than expected.
I feel like right now I'm in a surreal world. It doesn't help that everything is buried in snow outside, which makes it seem a bit weird. But things are not going according to plan. Perhaps that's a good thing. Perhaps I just need to go with what is happening and not worry about what might happen.
So while I'm stuck in this winter wonderland I'm going to enjoy it. We have a hot tub on the porch that we can wade through two feet of snow to get to.... and sit in it with eggnog... and of course there is gingerbread and candy canes and christmas carols and family and friends and lots of love and the joy that God brings every day, just one day at a time.