in like a lion…

Published by Jana on March 2, 2009

March has arrived and so has our biggest snow storm of the year.  With the windchill, it will be down in the single digits, so needless to say, Kai won’t have school today.  I hadn’t realized when he started pre-school that snowdays would be much harder on me than him… and not because I have more time with my little one, but because it usually means we’re stuck inside most of the day as my kids usually will not stand more than 45 minutes of play in the snow.  Though I can’t complain. I have a friend in Wisconsin who wrote me recently that she’s happy when the temp gets above 0 F - she’s moving to Florida soon and I’m sure she can’t wait!  I always thought I’d be willing to live anywhere, but, as I get older, I’m starting to wonder if that’s true…

We have had some fun in the snow though this year and you have to know the cold to appreciate the warm. And oh how ready I am to appreciate warm…

Our first good snow of the season took us for a walk down to Fairmount park.

While it’s only a 15 minute or so walk in good weather, it took a lot longer with all the fun, snowy distractions and slippery sidewalks.

The kids were excited to get there and play around and see the river frozen over along boathouse row. Definitely no one rowing the Schuykill river that day…

But what I hadn’t counted on was the fact that they would be freezing by the time we had to turn back -

and would still have 30 or so minutes of shivering stroller time before we reached home and hot chocolate.  So, while I enjoyed it all, I think it was a bit much for them.  The next decent snow just took us to our local maze park and some quality time building a snowman.  Unfortunately we did not have our camera on that occassion, but we were quite proud of the 2 footer our efforts produced - until a local man walking his dog told us about the “perfect” snowman across the park.  How those kids got their balls so round and packed hard, I’ll never know…