Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

Today was a historic day. It snowed here! Those of you who live anywhere other than here (or maybe Florida) are probably rolling your eyes. It was 67 on Christmas Day. For the record, I don't do cold. I wasn't completely unprepared, as our local newscaster said last night, "Don't laugh at us, we've got the snow patrol ready just in case. We're here at the grocery store and just look at these shelves!" He was standing in the bread aisle and it was completely bare. When someone cries "snow!" it's amazing- everyone and their grandmothers haul it to the market to buy bread, milk and water. Most of the time, it just gets really cold and nothing happens. But not this time.

LM has been keeping me up at night, so my big plans to get up early were blown out of the water and we all actually didn't get out of bed until 7:40 (thank you for sleeping late, BigM!) We have to leave the house no later than 8:42 to get BigM to school on time (or less than 10 minutes late), so I accepted the idea that we were just going to be a little late(r than usual.) I got the girls dressed and we went into the kitchen to eat breakfast (yes, it really does take about 30 minutes to get BigM dressed.) When I looked at the clock and it said 8:17 I just decided we'd be reaaallly late. (I was still in my bathrobe and pjs.) And then I looked out the kitchen window and saw snow falling to the ground. BigM said, "Mama, I want to stay home wif you and Widdle Mouse." It actually had nothing to do with the snow, she usually says that every morning at least 2 times before we leave.

So BigM played hooky today. Okay, okay, MM played hooky from taking BigM to school today. And I did laugh a little bit at 2:30 when she decided she did want to go to school. (School is over at 1.)

It snowed on and off all day long and at first I was a little bit disappointed that DM has our camera with him... until I realized that if I took a picture of anything, it would look exactly the same as if I took a picture of the yard in the middle of the summer after it rained. Not even a millimeter stuck to the ground and anything that stuck in the bushes had melted by lunchtime.

Yes, today was a truly historic day.