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| Getting to Know Me...Snow!
by alludreemof at 2/27/2008 2:14:53 PM
Seeing the snow this morning got my motor running for sure. My daughter had warned me I better not wake her up today even if we had a blizzard...so I put on my coat this morning and began to walk the hills and valleys around me. I spent about 30 minutes letting the snow fall and melt in my hair. At one point it was pouring from the sky in a solid white flurry....then the sun came out a bit and the flakes looked like little speckles of glitter.
Each year we have at least one good snow in the Tennessee hills..sometimes two. The first year I moved here was a real treat as we had about 8 inches dumped in one night and it was fluffy with no ice. It began snowing around 8pm. It was dark out so I didn't notice at first. But around 9 my daughter (at the time she was 11) walked toward our front door to let the dog out and yelled, " Mom! It's snowing!"
I ran to the front door...looked out...saw the ground covered and told her to get her coat. She was out the door before me but then that was her first snow to ever see besides in pictures or tv. She was already up the hill beside our house where the accumulation was the deepest. I watched her as she plopped herself in the white powder and began to roll around...remembering my snow days as a child.
I watched her as she tossed and giggled. As I watched and remembered suddenly a feeling swelled up inside me. I became 11 years old again and in seconds flat I was right beside her...rolling downhill, giggling, packing and throwing snowballs. We stayed out there an hour before feeling our bodies go numb from lack of proper clothing.
We decided to go back in and thaw ourselves out before the next round. I boiled some water for hot chocolate, got out the marshmellows and hunted for warmer clothing. We were back outside in no time flat. We grabbed our lawn chairs and some blankets on the way out and set up camp out by our weekend campfire area.
While sitting there watching the flakes fall from the darkness upon us I suggested a fire. She was all for that so I gathered up a few logs, built a small fire and snuggled back down in my chair with some hot chocolate. We both used our cells to call folks back home in Louisiana...sharing our night with them. They all thought we were nuts and the neighbors up the road drove by laughing...knowing where we had moved from.
Sometime around 1 AM my daughter began to nod off...the time had flown as the two of us spent the rest of the evening talking, laughing and having a few more snow battles.
Once inside again I tucked her in bed, saying goodnight and couldn't help but watch the flakes fall from outside my bedroom window. I couldn't sleep and I was still rather chilled from all our time spent in the freezing cold. I don't know what came over me at that moment but I remembered a fantasy I had once had of making snow angels in the snow....naked.
to be continued....
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