Let It Snow...

 

It's snowing!  Big, fat, slow, beautiful, I-want-to-put-on-Christmas-music flakes.  It's been a few years since we've seen snow.  The kiddos have been anxious and excited about the coming of winter.  I rather thought we'd be waiting longer than October 22, but I'm not bothered by it.  I'm rather enjoying it myself.  There is chili in the crock pot, I brewed a pot of Starbucks (decaf), and a batch of pumpkin cream cheese muffins just came out of the oven.  Yes, it seems a rather perfect day.

Luckily, the flakes started to fall before school so we got to run out, however briefly, for a lick or a catch before heading off to school.  As the kids' godfather so astutely put it, it's a good day not to be an elementary school teacher.

They took just a moment to catch the first fat flakes.

This is, for all practical purposes, H's first snow.  She was only 4-5 months old for her first winter, and we've spent every winter since in sub-tropical Brazil.  So I was glad I didn't have to usher her off to a classroom today.  Instead we had a chilly sensory morning.
 

M told her you can eat snow if you can catch it with your tongue.  Here she is trying her best. 

I love the flakes on her eyelashes.  She told me the snow 'tickled her eyes.' 

I didn't actually think it was going to stick, but the ground is white and we made snowballs!  I guess I'm going to be spending nap time locating what very inadequate supply of snow gear we still have.  I have a feeling after school we'll be very busy enjoying snow for the first time, all over again.