frozen-cold-snowy-icy

On Saturday it was finally warm enough to actually go outside and take some photographs of our frozen, snowy world. It has been so unbelievably cold and snowy and icy . . . I feel silly complaining, because I know much of the country has much colder, snowier and icier weather than we do, but this is more than we usually get here in KC (a LOT more!) and it's so tough with small children. If it was just the husband and I, I'm sure it'd be wonderful . . . lazy afternoons hunkered down in front of the fire, marathon cooking sessions in the kitchen, a couple of good old movies to watch . . . but with two little ones at home (and both with a stomach virus, naturally!) our snowy-day fantasies will have to wait until the children are older.

cocoa-in-the-snow

Yesterday another wave of snow began it's assault on kansas city, and the children and I decided to celebrate (?) this by making hot cocoa, getting bundled up, and going outside to have cocoa-in-the-snow. This rapidly became James using the child-sized snow shovel to scoop up snow and throw it at Lucy and I, but it was fun while it lasted. And yes, there was peppermint schnapps in my cocoa.