snow Snow SNOW!!!

Like a giddy 5- year old I found myself exclaiming to the kids this morning "ohmygosh, it's snowing - it's snowing!!!".  The kids have been asking for snow since they got here in June and finally today is the day!  The walk to the bus stop this morning was so much fun and Oliver kept saying that he can't believe Pappa is missing this and that this is the best day of his life!  Don't worry Danny - we have about 7 months of snow ahead of us now...

I love the fact that the kids already have experiences from living in different places and can compare them for their specific traits.  Skyler made me chuckle this morning when she noted that "we would totally have had a 'snow day' in Virginia today - and then we would be off school and the snow would be melted by lunch..."  I told her that she'd better not expect to have any snow days where school is closed here in Sweden.

After waiting and preparing for this day by going and stocking up on winter clothes at very well stocked flee markets I have to say that I was still completely unprepared!  It actually wasn't snowing when we first got up this morning.  But after brushing the kids' teeth and getting them ready we realized while walking down the stairs that the ground was all of a sudden all covered in white!  My kids will be the ones on the playground freezing their toes off in rubber boots, with rain clothes covering their clothes.  Oh well, usually they run around so much at recess that they don't have time to get cold.  At Ollie's preschool I made excuses that I haven't really had a winter for 18 years and asked them to just put his emergency change of clothes on top of his other clothes when he goes out.  Haha - makes me think of a particular Friend's episode...

Oh well, tomorrow's a new day - and tomorrow I will do better...