Winter Wonderland

I have been watching one of the most beautiful sunrises I've ever seen this morning. The sky is clear, the colors are brilliant, and the white of the wintery weather that we've been experiencing is adding a calm that, frankly, I've needed this entire holiday season. Yesterday, we had the best snow that I've seen in a long time. Bailey has never seen snow like this. Now, she's been spoiled and will want nothing less. We taught her to do snow angels and many times she just plopped down and started doing them. She was happy, though, to run through the snow and see how her footprints disrupted the snow - she loved picking up the snow and eating it - and, she tried her hand at throwing (and deflecting, in a snowball "fight" with Daddy) snowballs. I used to wish for snow as a child, and then would be too cold in it to really enjoy. So - we bundled Bailey up like the child from A Christmas Story and let her play in it. She lasted much longer than I'd expected, and it was so fun to watch her play!