snow day

there is nothing like the excitement on a victoria child’s face, when they wake up and see snow. the sounds of delighted screams i am sure could have been heard across town from our house this morning when i told the kids that the school was closed and they could stay home and play. they jumped out of bed, pulled their ski pants over their pj’s and off they went to sled down our perfectly suited driveway. it seems funny to me, having grown up with snow as a kid my whole life that this fluffy white stuff  is now such a novelty to my own children. usually now we have to vacation to go and find the snow rather then to vacation to get away from it, so waking up to so much of it this morning was a pretty little surprise! i secretly hope it doesn’t last long as it really does cause problems in our city, since we really are not well prepared to deal with the very icy conditions on the road it causes, but i hope it lasts long enough for my kids to get their winter fill. it may be the one and only time it snows. the bottom photos are taken before breakfast at about 8am and the top two taken at noon. amazing how the time of day can make such a difference to a photograph. they were taken in the exact same spot in the yard.