snow day!

The first snow has already fallen at my house. It was a fairly serious snow, too – two feet in a matter of two days. It snowed and snowed. And snowed. I watched throughout the day as my car seemed to disappear into an ever-growing ground of white.

I live for snow days – it’s the only time I will take a day off and not go into work anyway. Nor can I go shopping, run errands, or out for a beer. I built a fort in the middle of the front room out of pillows and quilts so I could curl up with a stack of books I had been meaning to start reading for quite some time. I was able to make a substantial dent in the reading – considering every two hours I had to get up to re-shovel the sidewalks.

Each time I went outside to shovel, I could almost feel my glasses freezing to the bridge of my nose. I shoveled with my sister and my roommate, laughing even while shivering. Before stepping back into the house, we would peel off the wet, messy layers of boots, legwarmers and gloves to leave on the sun-porch. And each time I’d walk back into the house, the rush of warm air would immediately fog up the cold lenses of my eyeglasses. It was a sweet reminder of the warmth and safety I was so blessed to be held in for the entirety of my two Snow Days.