"When It's Cold Outside, I've Got The Month Of May..."

"One winter morning, Peter woke up and looked out the window.
Snow had fallen during the night! It covered everything as fas as he could see..."

I mean, it kind of snowed. I think we got an inch...maybe?
But around here, that wimpy dusting of a-sorry-excuse-for-snow, can lead to very slippery roads. I made the idiotic choice of attempting to drive to a play date at Michelle's, and ended up having to have Eric (her husband) bring the kids home in his Land Rover, because I was too freaked out after seeing a couple of guys trying to get their car out of a deep ditch. My VSA went off like crazy, and I did manage to make it up the hill in one piece in the van, but I slipped and slid a few times and freaked out at the possibility that I could have so easily had the same fate as the dude in the ditch. I'm glad my kids were in the car with four wheel drive. The crazy thing is that this tiny inch of snow only makes the roads with the big hills in them unsafe. All the main roads and the highway are totally fine. I live off a busier road and would probably be just fine to drive anywhere that is off the main roads, but after this morning I am just to freaked out to drive anywhere. I don't like the feeling of not being in total control of my vehicle. I used to laugh at the fact that school actually gets cancelled over this bitty snow (if you can even call it that), but now I see that they don't really have a choice but to cancel if the busses can't run and half the kids won't be able to make it in.

The girls were much more excited about the snow and the opportunity to play in it. Reese was dying to make a snowman or a snow angel, but there just wasn't nearly enough to do either, but she enjoyed making footprint "tracks" like "Peter" from the book we read before bed last night.
The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats is about a little boy who wakes up to find it has snowed during the night.

I had NO IDEA it was going to snow overnight, and was just as surprised as Reese and Quincy when we woke up to the winter wonderland outside. Reese said it was "a dream come true" (hmmm...do you think perhaps she's seen one too many princess movies?) It's supposed to be in the 50's on Saturday, but it was only 6 (yes, as in SIX...what's with the FREEZING temps here this winter? Brrr!) when we went outside to play this morning.

Not sorry at all about missing preschool!

Quincy downright REFUSED to keep a hat or gloves on, but cried and begged to go out with Reese and "play in the frosty" too. I thought she'd get cold and come back in to watch through the window. (I did!) Being cold causes Braxton Hicks in exponential amounts. Once I'd had enough fun in the snow, and enough discomfort, I gradually moved from the yard to the front porch, to the entryway, to behind the door watching through the window. Quincy hung in longer than Reese and I had to physically SHOW her the mug of hot cocoa to lure her back inside.

like the ironing board in my kitchen? don't be jealous.

Shhh! Don't tell!

Ok, so I'll admit that it wasn't actually "cocoa" it was one of those Carnation Instant Breakfast Drink mixes. But I warmed it up, called it "cocoa", and they couldn't tell the difference. Nothing wrong with pumping a few extra vitamins into my kids, right? Unfortunately, I CAN tell the difference, so I had Stephens Mint Hot Cocoa (thank you Rachelle!) instead, which is basically nectar from heaven to a pregnant woman on a cold winter morning.

But as far as the kids are concerned, my mug just contained a bunch of rugga-rugga.