Snow Fun!

Snow!

After the holiday program we walked out into a winter wonderland. It had started snowing around noon so by the time we left the building at 4:30 about 4" had accumulated and it was a beautiful snowy sight. This was the first time Almi has seen snow falling, and I'm sorry I couldn't capture it with my camera, but she was so excited. She had on her thin tights and party shoes (must buy her some boots) but she still wanted to jump in the piles of snow. Since I live less than ten minutes from work I figured we'd be in the tub before she got too cold.


When we got home she insisted on playing in it some more. Even though she had no mittens on I figured another minute or two wouldn't hurt.

Wrong. She went from laughing and playing to screaming and crying. I threw open the door, stripped her clothes off as I sprinted up the steps and dumped her in a warm bath. Must buy mittens, too.

It was all good, though. Yeah, the snow was cold and made her cry, but it was nothing a warm bath, hot cocoa and Elm0 couldn't fix. :)

WOW!!!

I have never seen so much snow in all my life! This is the craziest, snowiest, most unpredictable, most unusual, most unDC-like weather ever! It's unbelievable! It's crazy to think that I shoveled my walk and cleaned off my car yesterday--it had NO SNOW on it-- and spent a long time shoveling out my parking space and now it looks like this!!!

Of course, now I am completely second guessing my decision to not stay in that rediculously long line at the grocery store yesterday to buy more food. I swear the line stretched all the way back from the registers to the back of the store and then crossed the store perpendicularly and went almost all the way to the other side. There must have been at least 50 people in line! I just did not have the patience and my cabinets are full of food so there was no need. If I was snowed in til May I wouldn't starve. I just wanted what I wanted (cookie making ingredients, wine, ice cream.. no wonder I'm not losing any weight!)

So, I am without Toll House cookie making ingredients but I am nice and cozy inside while the wind whips about my windows. It's scary, to be honest with you. I am so grateful for this warm house. It sure is cozy in here with my tea (seen here in my favorite "COCOA" mug I made)

but I wouldn't be surprised if we lost power. I had read that the weight of the snow was making peoples awnings and roofs collapse. That is a very scary prospect. I cleaned off my awning as best I could yesterday and this morning I thought about the skylight in my bathroom. I pulled it open to clean off the snow that had accumulated. Look at all this!

I need to do that every hour. So, yes, I am off work for the rest of the week with loads of time to work on the nursery and prepare for my daughter's arrival but it won't be as relaxing as I had anticipated.

It's whiteout conditions out there. Our second blizzard in a week! I will never forget this winter, hence one of the names I gave my daughter: Naomi Winter Almaz.