Many of you reading know that we live in
Kansas, specifically South Central
Kansas. Where we live, we
typically only get around 15 inches of snow per winter -- assuming I'm remembering correctly what my weather-minded husband has said. Last year, we hardly received ANY snow at all -- maybe 2 inches if I remember correctly. Our winter this year started out as having very little snow. In December, close to Christmas, we received just enough for Luke to be outside and THOROUGHLY enjoy it, despite Marc being at work and my need to be inside with a baby.
At the VERY end of December, BEGINNING of January, we received a little bit more. This time, Marc was home for the holidays...they went sledding in another part of
town where there is sort of a hill (relative to
Kansas)....(Marc said that Luke did LOVE sledding -- he's just not showing it in this pic...I was home with Kate)...
THEN, at the end of February, we got the "Mother of all Snowstorms." Actually, we got two of them in less than a week. It was "deemed" by the weather guys that
Kansas hasn't seen snow like this in 50 years. According to Marc's measurements in our yard (which is reported to the
National Weather Service), we had 19" in those two storms. School was cancelled quite a few days -- which means Luke didn't have preschool for quite awhile. It was pretty, fun, and laborious (henceforth, the title of this post). AND, we're grateful for it -- after all, God did create it!
Marc was home from work for a total of 1 1/2 days...we were grateful he stayed home -- both for safety reasons and for the "need to shovel" reasons. Not too many people own snowblowers here in this state. However, a couple of our neighbors actually do. One neighbor cleaned a good portion of our little street -- which NEVER gets plowed. Another neighbor loaned us his snowblower or our driveway when Marc & Luke spent several hours on it and never made a dent. Marc later told me that if we ever moved ANYWHERE NORTH of here, he'd want to purchase a snowblower. I didn't disagree!
One thing I learned during these snowstorms is that Luke knows how to GET AFTER IT with the shovel. He did awesome, and he didn't complain at all!
At the VERY end of December, BEGINNING of January, we received a little bit more. This time, Marc was home for the holidays...they went sledding in another part of town where there is sort of a hill (relative to Kansas)....(Marc said that Luke did LOVE sledding -- he's just not showing it in this pic...I was home with Kate)...
THEN, at the end of February, we got the "Mother of all Snowstorms." Actually, we got two of them in less than a week. It was "deemed" by the weather guys that Kansas hasn't seen snow like this in 50 years. According to Marc's measurements in our yard (which is reported to the National Weather Service), we had 19" in those two storms. School was cancelled quite a few days -- which means Luke didn't have preschool for quite awhile. It was pretty, fun, and laborious (henceforth, the title of this post). AND, we're grateful for it -- after all, God did create it!
Marc was home from work for a total of 1 1/2 days...we were grateful he stayed home -- both for safety reasons and for the "need to shovel" reasons. Not too many people own snowblowers here in this state. However, a couple of our neighbors actually do. One neighbor cleaned a good portion of our little street -- which NEVER gets plowed. Another neighbor loaned us his snowblower or our driveway when Marc & Luke spent several hours on it and never made a dent. Marc later told me that if we ever moved ANYWHERE NORTH of here, he'd want to purchase a snowblower. I didn't disagree!
One thing I learned during these snowstorms is that Luke knows how to GET AFTER IT with the shovel. He did awesome, and he didn't complain at all!
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