I have been absent for a few days as our hard drive bit the dust. Nice to be back!

Well, after my post on not celebrating Christmas till Dec 1st, I bent the rules a bit. Why? Because we got snow the next day! Regardless of the fact that many of you think that Canadians live in igloos year round, I am here to tell you that we don't get very much snow. The last white Christmas may have been more than 7 years ago. (do you remember, Kathleen?) We get a bit in November and then maybe again in January. It is often gone in 24 - 48 hours, but occasionally we get it for a week. So, seeing how we were actually getting some white stuff sticking on the ground by late afternoon, we wolfed down dinner to Christmas music, bundled up and went and had family play time in the snow. I broke my sacred law of no Christmas music played in the house till December, just in case it didn't snow again this year. We were coming home from play practice and had stopped at the grocery store when the slushy rain turned into soft, white flakes. We got out of the van exclaiming and cheering on the snow, while a man unloading his groceries next to us suddenly yelled, "NO, GO AWAY!!!" My kids and I stood there stunned for a minute because we thought he was referring to us, until I realized that he was in fact yelling at the snow. We get pretty excited over the weather around here! Our snow is gone, by the way- we are supposed to get more this weekend. I want a really big dump of it!!!