Yesterday was one of those days that will be remembered for years to come.
The day started out early (8:00am) with me cleaning the house and moving various pieces of furniture. Jess’s family was coming up to do their cookie swap, Jess’s birthday dinner, and her birthday party as well. To accomodate everyone in our house, I had to move my computer back into Jackson’s room, and setup our 6 foot banquet table and 8 folding chairs. Now to do this simple task in a house as small as ours, is like one of those old sliding puzzle games that has one piece missing. You have to move one piece at a time, and to get something from one side to the other, several pieces must be moved, and then moved again. Long story short, about 40 minutes later, the computer was moved a whopping 15ft away and the table was up.
The weather men earlier in the week had talked about snow this weekend, but truth be told, we didn’t lay much creedence in it. Every time we want snow, we get rain. Every time we want rain, we get sun. And when we want sun, we get monsoon. Sense a pattern here? Anyway, Jess was out with her mother shopping the in morning and I was feeding Jackson. Then around 10:30am or so, I spotted something come flying past my window. It was snow! It was light and fluffy, and gently falling to the ground. I wasn’t sure how long this would last, but I wanted to savor every minute of it. As it would turn out, I didn’t have to. After a good 90 minutes, it was coming down increasingly harder. As I sat at the table eating some left over sweet & sour chicken, the radio reported that they had just increased our snow totals. The valley cities were now getting 1-3 inches and the Pocono mountains were looking at 3-6. This was great!
I called my sister over to watch Jackson for a little while so I could run out and grab a cake for Jess and pick up her present from my parent’s house. The snow was not sticking to the roads, but that was just about the only surface it was not sticking to. It was that wet, fluffy snow that has the beautiful characteristic of laying on tree branches and filling in the holes of a chain link fence. It literally blankets everything and gives everything you look at that wonderful Holiday feeling.
A few hours later, Jess’s family showed up and they started decorating cookies. Afterwards, the kids went out into the yard and started building snowmen. I was curious, so I went out with a measuring stick to see how much had fallen. According to my yard, we had about 4″ of snow on the ground around 3pm.
Around 4:30pm, we had a very nice dinner, immediately followed by an ice cream cake and brownies. Even Gavin managed to sneak over for some cake! We started to cleanup afterwards, and everyone was gone by about 7:00pm. Jess and I hung out for a while, enjoying the Christmas lights, snow, cookies, and some TiVo goodness. A few hours later, we headed off to bed together. All in all, it was a great Holiday day.
(And thanks to my wonderful wife who can do no wrong, my post has been edited so that I don’t sound like a moron who can’t write clearly.)
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