the great snow of 2010

For days we've been watching the snowfall records being made and broken in the northeast. This week the DFW area saw record amounts of snow in a Texas Blizzard. And here we sat in Bryan/College Station with nothing but really cold temps, hovering just above freezing, and a lot of rain. It seems we live just far enough south to miss all the fun of being stranded at home, class being cancelled, and enjoying some good, quality family time in front of the fire, eating chili, and playing games.

But tonight we got a little surprise. I'm so glad my mom called to tell me that they were getting HUGE snowflakes at their house. I'd just taken a dose of TheraFlu and was hoping to go to bed, but the thought of snow gave me a little boost of energy. Pickles donned her new winter coat and ran outside. SuperGirl grabbed her galoshes and a scarf and ran out, too. No coat. Please don't judge her. Or me, for that matter. She was having fun and didn't give a hoot about how cold and wet it was. (Oh, and you can't see it, but her hair is dripping wet... she'd just gotten out of the bath!)

Hubby was working late. Poor Summer was at the dance studio. They missed the whole thing. When class was over, Summer picked up her phone to see 14 text messages that all proclaimed, "Snow!" "It's snowing!!" and "Snow, snow, snow!!" By the time she and Hubby got home it was just slush, slush, slush... and of course this morning it's all gone.

It sure was fun while it lasted, though!