Snow Angels Anyone? ⇒

We had a huge dump of snow on Saturday and Sunday and despite the chaos it has caused around here, I can't help but think of my many happy childhood memories growing up in New Brunswick - especially in the winter. To this day, I still can't resist making a snow angel in a fresh patch of snow (did it this morning in my work clothes while waiting for the bus) and if I had a crazy carpet, I swear I'd go immediately to the nearest slope and launch myself head-first down it (well, ok, maybe not in my current condition but if I wasn't pregnant, boy....)

I was so excited on Sunday morning when I woke up to see all that snow. I couldn't wait to get Elise all dressed up and out there. Loch, Christie and Corbin Roome were staying with us and Christie also couldn't wait to get Corbin out there. Unfortunately, Elise's first snow experience freaked her out and when we put her down she just started crying. How disappointing for her Eastern Mama. Corbin fared a little better and managed a smile for the camera before he got fed up with the cold white stuff. I almost went to join the kids down the road who were building a snowman.

So what did you do in the snow? Winters in New Brunswick were all about tobogganing, skating on frozen ponds and building forts in the big piles of snow left on the edge of our property by the snow plow. We had many epic tobogganing adventures with Dad - several of which left him injured. One year, he stuck his foot out to prevent us going unintentionally over a second slope into thick trees and tore the ligaments in his leg. He was in a cast for weeks! Then there was always "the day after" the tobogganing when the track we made had a thin crust of ice on it.

Of course, getting ready to go outside was always an adventure in itself. Tights, pants, ski pants, boots, coat, scarf, hat, and ski mitts which had to go over the sleeves so no snow would get inside and so required a second person to put them on. Inevidably, I'd have to pee after that was all said and done! Poor Mum.