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not blown away

I know that some of our family up north has been dealing with snow, blizzards, closed roads, and other severe sorts of weather. Well, we’ve been really windy…

Seriously, that’s the best I can do. There are some grass fires that are pretty bad. I can see the smoke out my window at work and the dry, warm, and very windy conditions don’t help the people fighting those at all. Sure, we could use some moisture, but considering Rhiannon and Brooklynn are home on spring break right now, it’s nice they can go outside each day.

Brooklynn loves to be outside. More like LOVES. We have to spell works like W-A-L-K and speak in hushed whispers to discuss plans for the next day that might include a P-A-R-K. Say the word playground in our house, regardless of the time of day, and you will get a pair of shoes handed to you and toddler standing by the door, waiting to go. Cold, windy, middle of the night? Who cares, let’s go!

So, Rhiannon and Brooklynn have been playgrounding all week long, even with the wind. Frankly, if we had snow on the ground for an entire winter, I’m not sure what we would do with the tiny person in our house. Maybe she would actually learn to like snow instead of it being that “weird white cold stuff that I do not like”.

head first?

Ever since Brooklynn got a small slide that sits in our house for Christmas, she’s been much more inclined to explore other slides at various parks she goes to. Like, say this one, at the park near daycare. (Thanks to Jamie for the picture.)

I do hope that she managed to sit down and go feet first before sliding down. I’ve seen her dismounts on the slide at home – it’s a last drop of about 3 inches and she still ends up plopping on her butt more often than not.

This is for all of our family who lives to the north of us that wish they could stay consistently above freezing this time of year. And yes, I do realize that by posting this, I’m just asking to get about three feet of snow in March, which is traditionally the snowiest month of the year. To make up for it, maybe I won’t post the picture I took yesterday of Rhiannon’s tulips starting to peek through the mulch on the front of the house.

baby steps

I’ve mentioned before how much Brooklynn does not like snow. She does not like it on the cars. She does not like it on the ground. She does not like to touch it, even when the touching involves only the bottoms of her feet with the snowy ground. No snow, no thank you, not now or ever.

Yesterday, it was 60 degrees outside. Brooklynn really likes to be outside when it is nice. But, there was still snow. At that point, the only thing left to do was build a snowman (or in this case, snow-woman).

Just Her Size

Notice how she’s standing on the verycorner of the step without snow? That isn’t an accident. Still, we consider this some serious progress.

winter made it

After going through the first half a winter with hardly more than a few flurries and a couple of overnight lows that could actually freeze water, winter finally found us. The rest of the country is saying welcome to our life. I think our entire household is starting to think moving farther south sounds like a really good idea.

Get me out of here

Yes, we are all less than impressed with the snow.

brrrrrr

School has been called off again tomorrow due to cold weather. It’s too cold to snow and the roads are cold enough to be free of snow and dry for the most part. Not so much a snow day but a cold day. And yes, it really is cold. Negative 17 in the morning with wind chills predicted to be in the negative 30 range. Too cold for kids to be out waiting for buses or walking to school.

Maybe the kids are enjoying the extra weekend in the middle of the week. Unfortunately, standardized tests don’t get pushed back at all, so that means two less instruction days for Rhiannon in the classroom before testing. Things I never considered when I was a student myself. Of course, back in the ancient days, standardized test results weren’t quite the deal they are now.

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