And so, in an unusual development for NWTN in mid January, we had a bit of a snowstorm at the end of last week. This on top of a minor sleet-fall that left the kids out of school on Wednesday and Thursday. They were out on Friday while it all piled up to about 6-8 inches, and then today while the rest of the ice melts off the roads. Thank heavens the temperature climbed up above freezing.
So what. It’s just a typical southern snowstorm — not even that uncommon these past four years. We usually don’t get ours until late February or early March, though. It is instructive to observe, however, the reactions of adults and children to the novelty of snow on the ground, especially when one is laid up recovering from surgery and the other is stuck between the world of parenting and the world of studying. What ends up happening to me is that I forget the studying almost entirely and devote myself to dealing with the kids. Lots of clothes on and off. Lots of making of hot chocolate and feeding them various foods. Lots of running the dryer. All of it fun, but strange in that the rest of the world is continuing to move while our little house becomes a snowbound fortress of solitude.
Eventually, though, cabin fever takes over and makes it hard. We just aren’t the sort to be constantly taking the children all over the place.
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