Today started out like most other days of the winter break, being pretty lazy and staying warm. My weather app said SNOW was happening at 9 am, but no, there was no snow. But about an hour later, it started sleeting a little. Then a lot. Then it was a wintry mix. I kept watching for the real thing. I kept waiting but not very patiently. A watched sky never snows! I tried to do a few little projects around the house to keep busy. That worked! It started snowing, REALLY HARD! It was beautiful and came down for hours. Our whole neighborhood was coated in a blanket of white.
We got out all the snow gear that we own. We all have ski pants or ski bibs which is great, but the kids really don't have great coats so we layered hoodies and fleeces under their rain coats. We also had to make do with cheap cotton gloves/mittens for them. Mama has the good ski gloves which I later shared even though they were gigantic on Camp's little hands. Savvie DID NOT CARE that she had gloves which got wet immediately. She must have bionic hands. And she just loved the snow that much. It was her first real snow, and it was magical. Camp also had a blast once he stopped complaining about being cold!
Some of the things we did today were: make snow angels, have snowball fights, make small snowmen (too powdery for anything bigger), sled down driveway on Rubbermaid lids and also body sledding by Camp (imagine a penguin; it was hysterical), walked down the road, made hot chocolate, kids snuggled on recliner, preserved Savvie's first snowball, made snow cream, and took our neighbor our space heater since her heat was not working. It was such a fun, fun day with my family.
P.S. Wearing pajamas inside out last night really worked! Yay snow!
