So Cold

When you can write in the frost on the inside of the windows, you know it is a little cold.

Never give up though.  You can still practice your volleyball skills after you put on your snow pants and boots.

Sledding

The good thing about the North, they just cordon off places and accept that the kids are going to wreck the place during the winter.

 

Ben wasn't happy that I told him to just wear my snow pants when his from last year wouldn't fit any more.  But I'll be he didn't mind when his super long legs didn't get snow on them.

 

It's a little more formal than our backyard, homegrown launching pad, but not much.

Not Groundhog Day Yet

But it has felt like it.

After treating three with a bad cold, it got me.

And so I earned a few days on the couch with some favorite movies.

 

Not one power outage, but three successive ones over our recent cold snap.

Wherein we figured out that we could use our hotspot to make internet and stream a movie.

And a fire would keep us warm.

 

And our November snow, which was pretty absent during December returned.  On the first of four days that I woke up not feeling worse than when I went to bed, I finally got out of the house in this.

After a Week of Thanksgiving Vacation, a Snow Day

Because we hadn't had enough snow up to the day of leaving for Thanksgiving, the Monday after we were dumped on.

 

But the girls took advantage of the snow day to make me a birthday treat!

Let it Snow!

They were so excited.

 

No matter how little that day...

The dog--not so much

Unanimous

And in a rare, unanimous vote after a full day of seeing some real losers, we found a new, temporary home for the next year.