A few weeks ago Alabama experienced a rare occurrence that caused mayhem and a frenzy like no other event could in Alabama. My Canadian friends and family would laugh if they knew how this one singular event could affect the whole state. I’m talking about an inch of snow that lasted for about 24 hours. No joke. But I digress, for a state that sees snow like this once in a decade I suppose all the commotion is justified. Just don’t ask me to get excited.
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Rachel happened to be visiting that weekend and we got some pictures our girls with her experiencing her first snow. This first picture is of the girls when they were happy to be outside – catching Alabama snowflakes with their tongues.
Here Sophia attempts to throw an Alabama snowball at Miss Rachel. Alabama snow makes some fine snowballs – I however do not make great snowball throwers. I think she missed. You will notice that there are no mittens on any of the girls.
This last picture pretty much sums up how the three girls felt after ten minutes outside with no mittens, and how I feel about the snow here, there and everywhere. Crazily, Alabama snow is no different than Saskatchewan snow; cold, wet, and miserable.
Here’s another one for good measure.
And just in case you are wondering, I didn’t deprive these Alabama girls of an Alabama snowman.
The next time we get enough snow to make a snow man – in ten years – my girls can make it themselves. Maybe by then I will learn to have an emergency pair of mittens hanging around.
