february eleventh

I woke up this morning to snow... that was a surprise.


I mean - :) - I know it's winter and all, but our extremely mild weather has marched us merrily into some sort of suspended Playland... not like it's Spring, exactly, but it is as if winter has been held off... almost dismissed.

Soon enough this morning I remembered that building a snowman is still on the children's list of things to do this winter, and I started thinking "park... snowman.... sledding...." and since it is family day today, I put it to the other three (or four, but Annabelle will happily go where the rest do), and they were game.

So we puttered around the house for a while
(in our usual style of puttering)

dressing up dolls

making a book

decorating a knapsack

Mama's

doin' puzzles

playin on the computer

rasslin' with Daddy....

and then it was time to go.

And, sure enough, we did the things we set out to do.

And did quite a bit of adventuring, besides.

I'm so thankful that so many of our nearby parks have these little wild places


-well, not wild like along the Amazon, you understand - but these little streams and natural areas that are still the way they've been for a long, long time...
spots that tumble and roar,


that summon forth the imagination


and encourage derring-do's.





So once again, today we were called,
and once again we eagerly answered "Yes!"





We eventually arrived back at our warm house
to a civilized dinner
and rather uncivilized baths
and now there's some movie watching going on -
along with some wild sort of dancing.

Sounds about usual, doesn't it?
We'll see you tomorrow.