7 Blogs in 7 Days Challenge: Day 1

Well, we did well to create a blog but as you all have noticed we haven’t updated it once. So I have decided to challenge myself. 7 new blogs in 7 days. (I know it seems pretty lofty since we haven’t updated the blog once in probably three weeks but there’s no reason to set the bar low.) So here we go!

A Little Snow and A Little Fun!

On Sunday night, March 1st (at least I think that is right) our particular part of Raleigh got about 2” of snow. It was just enough snow to cover everything outside and to make for a beautiful morning, but not really enough snow or the kind of snow to have much fun in. But that didn’t stop us from trying. When we told Maddie on Sunday afternoon that it might snow that night she asked if we could make a snowman. I figured that we probably wouldn’t have any other chances this year to make a snowman so I told her that if it snowed we would try. She was very excited! So when she woke up Monday morning and saw the snow she knew it was just a matter of time before we went out to play in it. Providence was on a two hour delay that morning, so right after breakfast we got dressed and headed outside to the grassy area behind the apartment. (Unfortunately Davis was still battling a cold with cough and runny nose so he was unable to participate in any of the outside play but he made sure to watch from the window.) Maddie had read some books about snowmen, so she knew what we needed: buttons for eyes, a big carrot nose, and sticks for the arms. Unfortunately all we had were the sticks for the arms, so we had to get creative with the other necessities. We did not have a big carrot but we did have a bag of the small baby carrots so the nose was going to have to be a lot smaller. We had recently purchased a box of Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookies so we decided to use two of those for eyes. And we took out a can of raisins to make a mouth. After we had collected the parts it was up to me to make the snowman. The snow absolutely refused to stick to itself so after about 5 minutes of intense trying Maddie started to ask questions about my progress. At that point I only had a small sized snow ball formed. After another 5 minutes Maddie was getting cold and growing increasingly impatient. (Don’t misunderstand, she was having fun running in the snow and throwing snow, but she was ready to assemble the snowman.) I delayed her as long as I could, but eventually I had to give and do the best with what we had. It was nothing to get excited about, but it was a snow man and Maddie was happy. Here are the final results:

Maddie was happy, so the rest of us were all happy and satisfied as well. Unfortunately the snowman’s head fell over about 10 minutes after we went inside and we think the Thin Mint eyes and raisin mouth were quickly consumed by a neighbor’s dog. Oh well – there’s always next winter!