Snow!?!
I’d like to blame the weather. It has been getting darker and darker, earlier and earlier. If the children didn’t go to school practically in time for elevenses, I don’t think I would see them in the light at all. The sky started to accumulate snow, waiting, holding it over our heads for days.
And then it blizzarded. I don’t think of blizzard as a meteorological term, but I guess it is. It snowed and snowed. They cancelled classes at UW-Madison, which didn’t happen the entire time I was in college there. There was a snowball fight on Bascom Hill. And we had less snow than that here. It is amusing to say only 9 inches of snow. Heavy, wet, sodden snow. After the clockwork temperature drop after the giant storm, I slid on several ice sloes on my way across the parking lot today. I’ll digress to say one of the most interesting things I’ve ever heard is that is some place (NY?) get lots of snow but don’t get the ice. It makes snow sound charming. It snows and then it melts. Like rain in Hawaii. It doesn’t ruin anything.
The local schools were brave and had a 2 hour delay. My particular kids had afternoon doctor appointments that day, so 2 hours late plus leaving 2 hours early meant that they’d go to school for lunch. Not that it didn’t cross my mind to send them. I wouldn’t have to make lunch. Ah. We had our own snow day. It was nice.
I am tired of this snow already. It should melt and try again. A nice wet snow, good for snowmen. Not ice. We could go snow shoeing. Bella could go outside. Bella loved the snow. She loved to taste it, touch it, stomp on it. Miranda went out at 7:30 yesterday morning and started rolling a snowball. She and Henry made two, roughly 2-3 feet in diameter. then she convinced Grandpa to help her lift the first snowball on the second. Grandpa nearly fell over. It was the fastest snowman the kids had ever built. The wind in the night knocked over the snowman. That was some powerful wind. We escaped downed trees or power lines. In the end, it snowed. Let’s not make a habit of it, m’kay?