Snow Day

Snow in Mississippi is like some sort of urban legend. Everyone knows someone, who knows someone, whose sister's neice's half brother has seen real snow in Mississippi. This past week dispelled the myth of Mississippi snow! We got snow. Almost eight inches of snow at my house and it stuck around for a couple of days. The girls finally got to build their first snowman. And we found a really good use for loaf pans (well, other than making warm delicious bread).

We were a snow fort making MACHINE! Three loaf pans and a couple of hours in the snow and we had a fairly unstable, but totally fun snow fort.

There was quite a bit of snow consumed by all (except Jena is WAY too cool to eat snow).

First snow of the winter

So far, the children have seen a maximum of 1 inch of real snow in their lifetimes. That inch fell yesterday. The girls were very excited to go out and play in it. It snowed last winter but all of it melted before the day was over. This year the snow stuck. Granted, it IS only 12 degrees outside right now (in Mississippi, mind you), but the snow made it through the night. I personally, would rather be back on the beach...

I crocheted this hat for Ashni from some alpaca yarn that I got from a friend. I decided to see if it would felt and it felted very nicely. Now, it's Bijou's hat. Fortunately it was not Ashni's only hat.

I had to remind Bijou not to eat the snow - especially the snow that was brown with bits of leaves in it...