Winter in PA

K's bedroom suite didn't even make it off the rental truck before she was taking her new sled down the small hill in front of Grammy and Pop Pop's house. Our second day here, my mom was in hog heaven as all her chicks were home to roost. My brother, sister-in-law and niece came up to go sledding on the "big hill" behind the house. Grammy was having such a good time she even took a trip or two down the slopes herself. Sledding was followed by a picnic . . . yes, a picnic . . . outside . . . in the snow . . . in 30 degree weather . . . complete with hot dogs and marshmallows over the campfire. It was fabulous.

K barely won out over the video of my mom sledding.

I love snow. I love it so much it apparently followed me to Virginia Beach. Late in January I took a weekend trip to Virginia Beach to sign some papers with the realtor, do some yard work at the house and finish cleaning out the garage. I had a great weekend with the Joslin's even though Kristin wasn't making chocolate. I also got more than a foot of snow . . . in Virginia Beach . . . where they don't have snow plows . . . or cinders. On the up side, my snow shovel actually got to be used to shovel snow at least once in Virginia. That was four weeks ago and apparently the snow missed me.

Early last week the news was all abuzz about the massive storm front scheduled to hit the east coast resulting in SNOWmageddon. I woke up Wednesday morning expecting a 2 hour delay, and saw CANCELLED scrolling across the news. Needless to say I've still got enough kid in me to enjoy a good old snow day. We spent most of the day shovelling off the porch . . and the stairs . . and a path to the mail box, etc. We did manage to get in a few runs on the sleds and attempted to build a snowman. Apparently, my architectural skills are more suited to sand than snow these days and I couldn't get a ball of snow to actually roll to save my life. Kaitlyn's help consisted of snow dancing with a 100 yellow lab and making snow angels when he knocked her down.



The "snOMG" storm continued throughout the day and school was cancelled on Thursday as well. Friday was already scheduled off for teacher in service and Monday was closed for President's Day. Surprisingly, we somehow avoided cabin fever the entire time.




I love playing in the snow and I love playing with K, but after our 4 day weekend turned into a 6 day holiday I could have cried tears of joy at the sight of the big yellow school bus coming down the road this morning.