Wellllll....as I said in the post about my New Year's Resolutions, I'm not so good at keeping them...as evidenced by my lack of posting on my blog. Anyhow, I have been enjoying the Virginia weather for the last week. We have SNOW. Last weekend, we got about a foot of snow - enough to close down the state for a day. Work closed, restaurants closed, schools closed. It has been FANTASTIC in my opinion. Douglas & I have spent plenty of time outside playing in the powdery white stuff too. He's been waking up in the morning, going to the back door, grabbing his boots & snowpants, and basically begging to go outside to play. I think he would do very well in the Midwest! On another great note, they are forecasting more snow for this weekend. I have heard varying reports - anywhere from an inch up to four feet. I HIGHLY doubt that we will get four feet but even just a few more inches will just add to my joy. I was telling my mom the other day that I believe I am a true snow-bunny. I may not go skiing or snow shoeing or ice fishing or even ice skating, but just seeing the snow and the world covered in white brings a smile to my face and a calmness to my heart that nothing else seems to be able to. I live for snow the way most other people I know live for the sun and/or the beach. The snow for me is tranquility!
Hope you all are doing well!
My snow angel. I taught Douglas how to make them but his didn't photograph very well....they just looked like someone rolled in the snow.....perhaps that's because that's really what happened.
Douglas really is all bundled up to play outside -- a t-shirt under a hooded sweatshirt under his jacket, pj pants under his jeans under his snowpants, 2 pairs of socks on his feet with his pants tucked in to them so they don't ride up, BOOTS (thanks mom!), a pair of socks on his hands under his mittens (because the mittens were kind of small), and a hat over the hood on his sweatshirt & under the hood on his coat. He is TOASTY warm!
If you love snow so much you need to come up and visit us in Canada during the winter! One difference up here is that we get a dump of snow and about the only thing that shuts down is some of the school buses. Everything else stays open and running. Gotta love being Canadian!
ReplyDeleteJulie - I would LOVE to spend a winter in Canada! I think the reason Virginia shuts down when it snows is because they don't have any snow-plows out here...just kidding. They have them, but they don't know how to use them. Oh well - I still love the snow!
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