Ha - We have snow!!

And it's about time!!

Warmest winter on record for us, so we didn't get any snow until this past week.
It was strange the first few weeks of January, not having to shovel our way out of hibernation.
Riding bikes and seeing grass, why that's an April activity, not January.
Trust me, I wasn't complaining.
The kids were - they wanted to go tobogganing - which is rather hard to do on grass and mud.

so finally, we got snow - sort of. It was preceeded by freezing rain, and a sheet of ice about 1/4 inch thick over everything.
Then a little dusting of snow.
and capped with wet drippy rainish snow - leaving us with maybe an inch and a half of hard crunchy snow that the kids can actually walk on top of.

It's hard to make snow angels in crunchy snow. :(
Crunch snowballs hurt.
You cannot build a snowman out of crunchy snow.
I'm convinced that no good can come of hard crunchy snow - It is treacherous to walk outside.

Still, they couldn't wait to get outside - and I was all too happy to oblige. Anytime the kids opt to be outside and not messing up my house, I let them. It's so much better for them, and goodness knows that come February, it will be so miserably cold that they'll just want to snuggle up with me on the couch and drink hot chocolate with wee marshmallows and watch the same 3 movies over and over again ad nauseum.

Here's a few of D. and J. outside (M. was in school)







And this one - I don't know - do you think he could show just a little more enthusiasm?


so we've had nearly a full week of snow and ice and temperatures below what we'd consider balmy.

I'm officially tired of it already - When's spring?