i will be playing in the snow

When we woke up this morning it looked like a winter wonderland.  It had been snowing really hard in the night whilst we had been sleeping, which always feels a little like magic.  Everything was white, even our messy garden and the grey road and driveway, like all the rubbish had been swept under a big white rug and everything was all fresh and untouched and bright. 

It was good, we played snow ball fights and built a snowman.  I did take pictures of the snowman, which we stuck a Dracula mask onto that was still hanging around from Halloween, but it didn't turn out so good.  Our snow-Dracula is out there now, on the driveway guarding the house.  Along the street, the neighbors have been building all day.  There's three snowmen out there in front of their house, two biggies and little'un.  A little snow family but it got dark before I could take a pick. 

Then, when we got cold and our fingers went numb, we came inside and had sandwiches and warm drinks and got out the huge lego set.  Building by the side of the window to the sound of people crunching along in the snow. It was nice, I would've like to go back out and maybe find a huge hill and go sledging, but with a little baby kicking inside I didn't think it was such a good idea so I settled for lego building instead.

I think this will be the last time is snows this year.  It's already started to melt and the forecast is rain for tomorrow.  I did plan to do more writing today, to cook some blackberry and coconut pie and to perhaps do some sketching, but that was before I saw the snow and all plans went out the window.  But that can happen on a weekend and I'm glad it did.