SnowJam 2014

So, I know that half of our blog readers are from places where 3 inches of snow is a Tuesday in April, but here in the south we lack basic snow-coping mechanisms like salt, plows, snow tires, adequate mass transit and correctly raked roadways. That being said the snow-related traffic kicked our city's butt last night. We have friends who were on the road for 4 hours, 7 hours, 12 hours... some abandoning their cars and walking home. There are still kids stuck at Ali's school from yesterday. We were both lucky. Ali left work at 1:45 and was able to make it home (and get Maggie) by 4:15. I left work at about 3:45 and got home around 6. Of course, I realized that I have an ice scraper but not a snow brush (I may or may not have borrowed a small broom from our roadbox to clean off my car) and we don't own a shovel but... little things.

All that being said, Maggie got to enjoy her first real snow day. We bundled her up in the snow suit Nana gave her for Christmas and proceeded to attempt some snow angels. The snow is too light to pack, so no snowmen were made, and the few snowballs I made were all powdery and disintegrated mid-flight. It was still fun, though.