A Mom's Musings
Snowtober
An early dusting excites the kids and motivates mom for holiday shopping.
“Hooray! No school on Monday,” my kids yelled when they saw the snow falling last weekend. “Not likely,” I told them based on weather reports that we were only supposed to get a light dusting in our neck of the woods (and hoping they were right). Earthquakes, floods, a hurricane and now snow in October? This is Virginia after all! Just when we thought it was time to rake the leaves, we nearly had to drag out our snow shovels and ice scrapers. But it appeared that we dodged a bullet this time, as many of our neighbors up north had power outages due to snowfalls measured in feet, not inches. I reminded my kids they already used up one snow day when we got the flooding rain. That only leaves two remaining, and we still have a long …
Mandy
7:03 am on Monday, November 7, 2011
I'm happy to report I'm done with my Christmas shopping :-) But, like you, will likely end up getting a few more things, thinking that I don't have enough! more ›