The Blizzard of '08

Wheee! Imagine our delight when we woke up to a foot and a half of snow on the ground. Only the "old man" of the family could remember ever seeing so much snow before. Jack, of course, wanted to get out right away to play in it, but Mike and I are stodgy enough to want to sleep in and then actually dress ourselves and Jack appropriately for the arctic weather. Half an hour later, we are all set to go. Jack takes three steps outside the door -- steps that were, to be fair, up to his middle -- and then screams to be allowed to go in. All that effort, and the little guy had forgotten to put on any socks! Nothing would avail, he would NOT come back out, so Mike and I were left to shovel alone. Well, actually, I was left to shovel with Mike watching, as a few shovel fulls were enough for his back to threaten to seize. It was exhausting but fun -- we really enjoyed looking at the mountains of snow on our drive! Later that night our friends the Kami, Nate, Kate and Moira invited us over to spend the night in a Blizzard Party, followed by a huge and delicious breakfast. We're thinking perhaps we should plan a blizzard every year!

To top it off, Jack had recovered enough by Monday that we could all build a snow fort togehter for FHE. As you can tell from the picture, one of us got "left out in the cold" so to speak, and was in grave danger of being pelted to death. True to Ohio weather, it was 60 degrees the next day. The fort managed to hold on for three days, though by that third day, it could hardly be called a fort anymore. More of a tiny ridge, really.