The Snowy Day

We didn't lose a mitten...instead the kids had fun.


Lily-first snow she knows & has had the chance to actually play in.  I didn't let her out much last winter.


Ava-first snow to play in but she won't remember it.  She had so much fun she was acting out the phrase "kicking & screaming" when I drug her frozen little body back in the house.

Big kids-old hats at this snow business & LOVING that they had a day off from school.  We knew the night before but didn't tell them, hoping that they might sleep in a minute or so (I'm being literal here, every minute past 7:00 is precious I'm telling you) but like some sixth sense, they knew-EARLY-that there would be no snow.

 

Ava was like a little stuffed marshmallow...and when she would topple over she had a hard time getting up, it was hilarious.

Even I went out for a little while...I scooped the walkway with our newly purchased snow shovel & did some refereeing.  Did you know that a couple can be married 15 years, owning 4 houses in that timespan, & survive without a snow shovel?  That's the kind of snow we get around here...in the past when it has occasionally snowed a lot like this, we've used a regular shovel (or made our guests sink to their knees in snow!  It's all about the hospitality.).  That's hard work.  I won't get into the expense of purchasing a snow shovel at this point...being that they are just so super expensive and all.  Ha!

You know how it goes with kids and snow...mom spends 20 minutes rounding up clothes, 30 minutes dressing kids so their ears don't fall off, and then shooing them out the door for them to return in about 15 minutes either frozen or needing to go potty.

Such is the life...but I love it.

Weather inspired food...homemade bread and snow ice cream with chocolate chips.

The big kids felt it their civic duty to explain, several times, to Lily the perils of eating snow that looks like this or is yellow when it is outside...it's okay when mommy makes it like this but if you found it like this, just plain ole' snow outside, it would not be good to eat Lily!  Remember that!