We hit the jackpot last week. Another snow storm in England. My friends were quick to point out that until we moved here they hadn’t had snow in years and years. I told them the story of standing in my garage three summers ago with two piles. One pile was headed to storage and the other pile to England. B was incensed when he found the sleds in the ‘wrong’ pile. I gently explained we wouldn’t need them in England, so we were leaving them behind. “It doesn’t snow in England?!?!?” he said. “Then I’m not going!” I didn’t really blame him. We’d had a similar conversation about baseball the week before. Why in the world would we move to a place without baseball and snow? He couldn’t figure it out. I wasn’t sure even I knew the answer at the time.
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B with what we have discovered makes
an excellent makeshift sled--an old real estate sign |
So here we are in England. We’ve lived here two years and four months and we’ve had three major snow storms. Each time it happens everyone says is the worst in 30-50 years. I like to think of myself as the snow fairy, but really it’s B. Last year we had the most beautiful white Christmas. No one could believe it. He’d been predicting it for a couple of days. Said he could smell it in the air. Everyone just smiled a bit patronizingly and patted him on the head. I was indeed one of the unbelievers. I was so worried he’d have a broken heart. I just couldn’t bring myself to encourage his hope. When it finally did snow we all wondered if he had some kind of magic snow juju. This year that fact was confirmed. He gives all the credit to Santa. Last year he asked and received. This year he wrote it in all caps on his list to Santa a few weeks ago. He even added ‘(please)’ after it. Yesterday I was looking at his list and I noticed he’d crossed it out and replaced the please with ‘thanks!’ So sweet.
We got three good days of sledding in. Built a giant snow man. C dug himself a snow cave. The boys even got to miss 3 days of school. It was so fun! It feels so good to me. To look out my windows and see snow. Snow on the backyard and in the fields. These poor Brits are cranky now though, and I can’t really blame them. There are no services. No one clears their sidewalks--no one has snow shovels to do so! The roads don’t really get cleared or sometimes even gritted. No one has a clue how to drive on this stuff so driving is sketchy. There is black ice everywhere and a lot of people have fallen or have tales of helping someone who has.
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Caid in his snow cave.
He happily worked away on this for hours. |
2 comments:
I am JEALOUS !!!! Michael and Grace are waiting and waiting, but Colorado is BARE !!!!
"Old" sign indeed!
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