Being from the south, I do not prepare for such times. We don’t have mittens, snow boots...nothing to use to go outside and properly play in the snow. Hell, it took 20 minutes to find Laney's coat! Here is how we roll in SC. (don’t snicker you Yankees). Laney had on 1 long sleeve shirt, 2 footed sleepers, a hooded jacket, her winter coat, and a hat...and a partridge in a pair tree. She looked like Ralphie’s brother.
The big kids got off a little easier…they had on thick sleeping pants, jeans and 3 shirts…with coats and hats. The did have to put ziploc bags on their hands and then put socks over them…what! I didn’t want their hands to freeze. The hospitals here are not prepared to deal with frost bite. I am pretty sure they ditched that look as soon as I came back inside. Oh well. I did my crazy mama duty. If they lost a finger in the big snow of 2010, that was all them.
Laney did not think the snow was that cool. Actually, she did not like it at all. She let us put her down for 3 seconds and she was done. The big kids loved it, but were not complaining when we told them to come inside. Less then 24 hours after it started, ½ of my yard is melted and the other half is going as quick as the wicked witch on the Wizard of Oz. I am not sad. I must give kudos to my friends that live in the north…I don’t know how you do it. Check back with me in 4 months…I will be hating the heat then. Hopefully, my nasty ass pool will be pretty and blue by then…if we ever get the sunken tarp out. Oye!
One nasty cement pond!
OMG! I have told you and told you that I find you so freaking hilarious. I am sitting here reading this to my (adult) kids (oh, and the one on sex). LOL!
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That baby in the snow is just way too cute! We don't get much snow here, but dang has it been cold!
ReplyDeleteCute baby!! They don't think much of snow do they. Mine just sort of fell over a few times then decided she wanted to watch TV instead...
ReplyDeleteHi April!! I am so sorry that I have been so out of the loop this week. It's been one crazy week, but I think things are returning to normal. Anyway, I'm so happy that you are posting again. I have a lot of catching up to do. As you know, we're over here in Texas and we experienced the same storm you did. It was fun for the kids too!! Nino had never experienced snow like this before. Several folks around here said that they hadn't seen snow like this since the 70s. I'm from up north, but I don't miss it one bit. Brown, gray and yellow snow are all I think about when I think about winter up north. Oh and extreme cold that makes you want to stay indoors for 6 months straight. I'll take the bleeding heat any day. I loved all the photos you included with this post. You guys look so happy! Even LC who you said didn't enjoy it looks super adorable in the photos. (Diego wasn't into it either btw.) One more thing, I looooooooooove the new look your blog has! It is awesome. I'll be spending a lot of time on your bloggie this week catching up. I've missed you! (Sorry to hear that you decided not to go with the biz you were working on. It sounds like a really cool idea, but it is hard to take a big leap of faith like that, esp. when it involves so much time. Maybe when your kiddos are older you can return to it. It sounded really neat and like a really important project.) Huggles to you and your family!!
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