…aaaaand that just about sums it up (we don’t have a fireplace to find delightful – damn 1970s townhouse architects).
Honestly – I do love snow. I do! I love seasons. Really! I’m always the first one to say that I’ll suffer through a couple of freezing, sleeting months if I can experience autumn leaves and pink cherry blossoms and yes – sparkling white snow blanketing the neighborhood. I wouldn’t say that I’m a Winter fanatic, but I find snow lovely and cozy. And the snow we had right before Christmas this year was downright festive.
I really couldn’t imagine living somewhere without seasons.
When I visited Chris’ family in Arizona for the first time and listened to their friends exclaim about not being able to survive our East Coast Winters I thought, “yeah, well you enjoy that ‘but it’s a dry heat‘ holiday season – I’d rather revel in wool sweaters and sip hot cocoa after an invigorating walk through freshly fallen snow.
But that’s easy for me to say since here in DC, we get maybe one or two big snowfalls per year. We’re not usually buried in snow for almost two weeks.
And as I go through photos I’ve taken over the past week, I can feel my attitude changing.
So I present to you a brief travelogue of our journey through the past week’s snow festival:
1/31
Yeah! Snow! Let’s go sledding!
Or perhaps a snowball fight?
Thank you Oliver for being the second Hood child to break a camera. Eleanor – You’re up!
2/5
Can you believe it’s snowing again? And the camera didn’t break – so we can take MORE pictures!
Nice hat.
2/6
When is it going to stop snowing? Our children are disappearing into the drifts…
2/7
All I have to say is Winter Wonderland. Behold the majesty.
And behold my son who can’t feel the cold. Actually, he can feel the cold – he just has his priorities.
2/10
The snow is starting to get old…yet Oliver still insists on going outside fifty times a day (okay – more like five but when you’re slowly going insane from not being able to leave your house, you start to exaggerate). Where is everyone else anyway?
Eleanor is sick
And cultivating some really crazy bedhead
Chris is cooking (and apparently drinking…)
Kate is taking pictures since she doesn’t like to have her unshowered in pajamas look documented, and George is melting down from cabin fever.
2/11
Giant icicles have started falling from the roofs.
Where are the news reports about widespread impalings?
2/12
Today the furnace stopped working. Yeah – more sweaters! So festive…
2/13
The furnace has been fixed, but now the dining room lights and kitchen outlets aren’t working. Weather related? Or the result of Chris’ roiling psychic energy?
2/15
Losing track of the days…it’s started snowing again…I’d like to say that I’m not baking yet another batch of cookies because of the weight I’ve gained while house bound. But the truth is, I’ve run out of chocolate chips.
Day 13 of Snow Prison: We have come to accept that help is not coming. Survival now rests on our own shoulders. Provisions are running out and morale is low. Straws were drawn for a volunteer to venture out in search of food. As the snow falls steadily and the temperatures drop, we try not to wonder when it will end. The waiting is the hardest. But that is all that is left for us now. To wait. And hope.
To all of my other snowbound comrades: Stay warm!
To all of you smirky warm weather residents: Suck it!
Cute pictures! And it's been snowing a lot here, too. I used to love snow, now…I'm pretty much sick of it! XD
~Kendra
Wow that icicle is lethal! I used to like snow until I moved to a city where it snows for half the year. I am over it! Love the photos!
Loved the chronicles of snowdom. I can't actually remember all of the snow days we've had, so thanks for the reminders.
The pics are adorable!
Oliver rocks the sweetest rosey cheeks I've seen! I am thrilled that we are closer in and in the condo so the snow was a tad bit more manageable for me. I wish I had gone sledding though!
Haha! Great post, great pictures! I loved seeing all the pics in this order… yup, looks like a typical CANADIAN winter – I know you folks down in D.C. aren't used to this, and I'm sorry. Luckily for us, it has not been that bad snow-wise, this year. (Please knock on wood!) Just think… it is amlost March… the end IS in sight!
I miss the seasons and then I see this and I'm thinking not so much
I'm so thankful that I'm not there.
Okay, I won't smirk, not even a little, but I will whisper a silent but oh so fervent thanks that I don't live in the northeast or any other snowbound climate any more.
Ducking now.
PS LOVE that snowball shot, glad the camera survived.
So funny Kate! Who drew the short straw and had to go get food? Thank god your furnace was fixed quickly — hopefully the repairman didn't mess the electrics and mess up those lines for you! Love the photos – eleanor's bed head is so cute!
Fabulous photos. You have a good attitude.
I. Am. So. Sick. Of. Winter.
Love the pictures! The thing I find most disturbing about the snow aftermath is that they STILL have not picked up our trash…. not good for keeping urban rodents at bay!
I went outside today to shovel some snow from the front steps. I got about three good scoops before I quit because it was too cold and at this point, I just don't care; however, and despite a horrid winter here, what I was dealing with is nothing compared to what you just showed us! If whooly mammoths trudge past your house, it's time we all start looking for property elsewhere!
Man, that's a crapload of snow!! We got some, but nowhere near that! I feel for you! And I think the entire country is ready for spring.
Wow, you guys are troopers! I hope rescue somes soon for you. I would be going nuts. xx
I am one of those warm smirky weather residents…for out here anyway. No snow and its like friggin spring here. Last year we were getting snow in April. Who can understand any of it? I feel your pain though. That was us last year losing our minds at all of the snow.
I thoroughly enjoyed your documentation of it!
Do I need to say stay warm? I bet you want to punch me right now.
Oh I am so jealous!! That snow looks wonderful! Great pics!! What's cookin in the crockpot?
I'm so friggin jealous. Those pictures are great. I would SO be out there with Oliver! Let him roll in the white stuff for me please!! :)
My gosh that is a lot of snow! I hope you've dug out.
Your pictures are amazing, Kate! I can't believe what we dealt with. Was it only a week ago?? It all seems like a dream now. A really bad one!!
I couldn't imagine living anywhere without seasons either….and so we have six of them here!!
I love the snow, but this has been a little too much snow. I slip and slide every morning while I try to strap the kids into their car seats. When is it going to melt???
That is crazy. Glad you are looking on the bright side and finding the fun. All my mom can talk about is the shoveling! Awesome pictures.
mmm, snow. i've heard of that.
may you all survive this current apocalypse.
I'm a million years behind in my reader…but this is great! (Even better able to be enjoyed now that the snow is melting!) Curiously, our furnace went out during that whole thing, too. I especially love Day 13!
It always makes me smile at how red little kids faces get in the winter. Its such a symptom of childhood winters until you turn into a grown up and you go to work and forget to bring your hat and gloves and you have a snow storm and you traipse through the nonsense only to arrive home looking exactly as you did when you were a little kid. And nothing has changed.