December 14, 2015
My kids have grown up in the southern desert of Arizona up until now and this is our first year experiencing snow in the winter time. So you can bet your boots I cancelled our morning school work when it started to snow and all the kids wanted to go outside and play. Especially when they cancelled public school for Jeremiah too.
It started snowing last night and has continued on and still is snowing lightly presently. The kids are all outside having a snowball fight for their lunch break from school work.
One of the first things my kids did was only last about ten minutes before they had to come inside to get a second pair of socks on their feet and a second set of gloves for their hands so they could go back outside and keep playing.
Winter clothes such as snow shoes, scarves, mittens, gloves, coats and ear muffs what are those? Things I have never before needed to purchase in my life and now I find myself in need to quickly go and outfit a family of seven properly for a snow and cold filled winter.
It's so funny because all morning I keep getting asked if we are going to have a "white christmas" like in the movies. We've got at least 4 inches maybe more. It was so fun to sip hot chocolate this morning and watch from the windows as my kids discovered the joys of the winter season.
Joy's I remember getting a fleeting taste of when we visited my grandparents around December for the family Christmas party and there never quite being enough snow for more then a 12 inch tall snowman scrapped together with the sprinkling of snow on the hoods of the cars in the driveway. Or one year when Showlow really got a lot the weekend we visited and we got to go sledding with my Aunt and have a proper snowball fight.
I am grateful for this moment for my children and for the memories it gives. And I count my blessings today.
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