*UPDATED* I Need Your Help!

*UPDATED TO ADD*  Good night, Nancy, y'all know how to show up!  We've been keeping a running tally all day and have been kept mercifully busy with your kind comments.  Thank you!  We'll be posting an update some time tomorrow (Friday) since school has been called off again (*twitch, twitch*).  Keep those comments coming, if you're reading this for the first time.

We've been iced in since Friday afternoon.  Let me repeat that for emphasis:  Friday afternoon.  We've ventured out a couple of times, but with little success--the roads are horrible. 

And I don't mean to sound like a complainer--we've had plenty of fun times.  The boys have had a ball sledding across our ice-covered backyard, and we've done lots of movie-watching and game-playing.  We are enormously grateful to have kept our electricity, especially since so many people near us have not.  But after six days of utter "togetherness", well, nerves are wearing a little thin around here.  And our brains are atrophying.  My friend Jules called to give me a pep talk and reminded me of that Erma Bomback essay in which she discusses how, after three snowed-in days with her kids, she was ready to organize a dog-sled team to get them back to school.  Jules and I had a good laugh.  Then I stopped laughing and eyed my dog carefully, wondering just how much weight she could pull.

So, we must learn something today.  Or we'll go crazy.  This is where you come in. 

We've spread out a map on our kitchen table, with hopes that each of you might leave a comment telling us what state (or country) you're in.  If you don't blog publicly about where you live, just leave your comment anonymously.  As the comments come in, we're going to chart it on our map and learn a little something about geography.  Also, we're placing bets as to which state will have the most visitors (Adam guesses Texas, Stephen guesses California, and Joseph guesses Arkansas).  The winner gets to lick the bowl when we make brownies tonight.  They've also set a strangely specific goal of (*gulp*) 675 comments.  Some of you are seriously going to have to come out of the woodwork.

Y'all, help a girl out. Please leave us a comment with your location!  The kids are standing by my computer jumping up and down AS I WRITE THIS, they're so excited.  So...where in the world are you?