Snow Day!

I think February must be the season of miracles for the state of Louisiana. In the span of a week we have seen 2 miracles...the Saints winning the Super Bowl and snow that actually stuck to the ground. I can't tell you how much everyone around here is celebrating. I am sure it is all still a little surreal for some...lol!

Usually when the weatherman forecasts snow, we all roll our eyes and say we will believe it when we see it. We had high hopes this week though still riding on the excitement of the Saints victory. The snow delivered in full form too. It started Thursday morning and snowed all day. It didn't start sticking until around 3:00 p.m. though.

When I went to pick John Reagan up from "school" a couple of hours early, it was so strange because we could here the snow/freezing rain hit the windshield but there weren't any drops on the windshield. It was dry as a bone. You would have thought the roads were covered in black ice the way everyone was driving.

It snowed through the night and a little on Friday morning. John Reagan couldn't wait until Friday to go out and play, so Daddy wrapped him up and took him out Thursday night. He had a blast. He was used to our time in Tn. Every time it would snow we would run out and play in it in the fear that it would be gone by the time we got up the next morning.

We enjoyed ourselves Friday morning. Evie wasn't too sure about it all, but she endured. She and John Reagan tasted the snow for the first time and thought it was great eating the snow. We didn't get around to building a snowman. Evie wouldn't let me sit her down long enough to help John Reagan, but he didn't care because he got to make snowballs and throw them at Mommy. He has been anticipating snow all winter because he has been talking about how him and Daddy used to throw snowballs at Mommy at "our yellow house" in Tn.

There were many things we loved about Tn, but one was the fact that John Reagan and Evie always got to see at least one snowfall a year. That was not the case for us growing up in La. We would always hope for snow and very rarely get it. As a matter of fact, growing up the main snow that we heard about was when I was 2 years old, and the snow came up to my knees. That was my fondest memory of snow, and it came from pictures. What a shame! We sure hope it won't be that way for our children..."Remember our last big snowfall, John Reagan was 3 and Evie was 1." We might have to do some winter traveling to where it snows. We are believing this will become a regular occurrence though.

Thank You Lord for the snow!

A side note...Part 2 of our milestones will hopefully come this week. We were supposed to know for sure this week, but that didn't happen. We are hopeful that we will know this coming week.