It's A Snow Day

With snow falling from yesterday afternoon thru this morning, we got about 10" or so and everything is closed up today so I am home with the boys, enjoying a "snow day" with them. Of course, they are still to young to understand the thrill of having their school's name be read off on the radio (or scroll across the bottom of the screen nowadays), so I had to be thrilled for them. The excitement of knowing no school today, or for me no work, can only be topped by the notion of fresh powder, a hill in the backyard and that new plastic sled the boys got for Christmas.

Snow can take a perfectly ordinary yard that you've seen, mown, walked on, and taking for granted, and transform it into a wonderland of white waiting to be explored. God the Creator created us in his image and we too can go out and form a man out the frozen white "dust" and then fall on our backs and flap our arms to surround him with angels in the snow.

Adults can take pleasure in the transforming a snowy landscape back into a cement driveway and sidewalk surrounded by mounds of freshly tossed snow and rejoice in our productive capacity! Our children in turn can turn our mounds into forts, tunnels and snowballs and rejoice in their own productive capacity, and more importantly to them, their marksmanship as they tag your backside with a sidearm curveball.

Go and enjoy yourself today if you are able, I know the boys and I will be shortly. And don't worry, we know what not eat out there and I will not be teaching them how to write their names.