Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts

Thursday, February 6, 2014

More Winter

I think by the second week in February we should already be well into spring in Dallas, don't you?  

This is what we woke up to this morning…
It says 18 degrees, but it felt more like 1 degree when I opened the garage door for the girls to go to seminary.  

The snow started coming down right at 7:30 when kids were ready to leave for school so we abandoned our regular plans and I drove them all. 

By 11:00, this is what our street looked like...
So I tossed out my to do list, turned up the heater, and snuggled up to read a book for a few hours. 
It's always nice to have an excuse to stay inside, but I'm a little bit ready for warmer weather.  Remind me of that when it's 105 degrees in August.  


Thursday, January 17, 2013

Throwback Thursday

While I was happily snuggled in my nest on the couch the other day with the heater cranked up to 75 degrees, I thought about January in Utah.  We don't have quite as many pictures of that month as we do of all the others, probably because I have an aversion to cold weather and the snow fun almost always happened without this family photographer.  But I did manage to find a few moments from past snow days.  

We had a permanent snowman in our yard from the time the first snow fell until sometime in May.


Mack was always my biggest snow fan.  I could NOT get him inside, even when his little cheeks and fingers were beyond frozen.

People planned such great snow activities for us in Utah.  We weren't exactly equipped to play in the snow, but everyone was happy to teach the girls the finer arts of sledding.  I'm pretty sure there's a smile under all that snow covered hair.


This is quite possibly the only picture of Flowering Buttercup in the snow.  She didn't love it either.
That is pure joy on Mack's little face.  See, even when he was tiny he loved that stuff.
This was Mack's second favorite thing to do in the snow.  Whenever I could hear the snow blower, I knew he would be right behind it.  Back and forth, back and forth for as long as it took to clear a path.

There is not one day that I long for snow around here.  I love that Dallas days are almost always sunny and that if we do get snow, it never piles up for very long.  But there is nothing more beautiful than waking up to trees that have been flocked with tiny icicles the night before.  I rarely actually walked out into the snow, and for sure never played in it, but I LOVED looking at all the snow covered things from inside my warm house.  :)

I'm grateful for all the happy, snowy memories that my kids have.  I'm grateful that they have an appreciation for this stuff that I never quite acquired.  And I'm so grateful for the opportunity to experience warmer climates now.

I hope you are somewhere warm and happy this Thursday...or snowy and happy!

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Snow Days


This is what we woke up to this morning...


It snowed, but technically this wasn't a snow day because school wasn't cancelled.  We were all pretty surprised by that as we anxiously awaited the email from the district giving us permission to stay in our jammies all day.  When it didn't come, I reluctantly loaded everyone up for the morning carpool, dropped off my very disappointed children, and then hurried back home so that I could assemble my "nest" for the day.  

I cranked the heat up to 75, got my favorite blanket and pillow and spent most of the day here...
...and here...

Oh, how I love an occasional grey, snowy day!  I can't do them all the time and I give in way too quickly to that license to not exercise, not get dressed, and not leave the house.  But fortunately they are few and far between in Dallas, so when they happen, I head for the couch.

The rest of the week should be bright and sunny, so I will be leaving my couch and getting dressed.  But what a nice little break in the middle of the week to just be still for awhile.   I'm grateful for lazy, snow days.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

White Christmas

I'm not a big fan of snow, but when it comes down on Christmas morning and lingers just long enough for everything to look like it's been dusted in powdered sugar, and you know you won't have to drive anywhere in it, it's perfect.