Snow Days

The forecast? Possible snow in Seattle. Not a blizzard or anything like that, just a little dusting to change the scenery.

I do hope it snows because I love how snow has a way of calming the city -- the cacophony of city living is muted, replaced by cars softly crunching down the road. Listen carefully and you'll hear the neighbor shoveling a walkway -- it almost sounds like an ice skater's skate cutting into the ice just before leaping into a triple Lutz. 

All this talk of snow has me thinking about my girls playing in the snow when they were a wee bit younger. Here's a picture from 2007 of Sammy proudly displaying her snow creations.

This next image just melts my heart. This is Alex seeing snow for the very first time. She's actually watching Sammy make a snow family.

While I'm typing this post, Alex said, "Wow, how old were you back then? You're wearing the same bathrobe that you're wearing right now."  That Alex never misses anything.

Jon's been asking me what I want for Christmas so you better believe 'bathrobe' will be at the top of my list. How embarrassing. 

Here are more snow day images...





 

I just love this image of Sammy because it says, "I love it out here in the snow, but I'm cold and my face is frozen. How do I stop smiling?"

My kids have grown so much since these pictures were taken, and I can't believe it. Where did the time go? But the one thing that hasn't changed is... they still enjoy eating snow. I'm glad some things haven't changed.