While my husband is intensely watching the Duke/Carolina game on t.v. in the living room, I thought I would take my leave and retire to our room, light my new lavender candle (a gift from my hubby and son today) and just take some time for quiet. Though we live here in the country where it is almost always quiet, save for the train whistles from down the road a piece, it is nice sometimes to just have a little time at night to just reflect.
It is supposed to be snowing tonight, maybe up to 5 inches in some places, but so far all we have is rain. For a Virginia girl, this is hard, because when I head that snow is headed me way I instinctively get all excited and relaxed at the same time. I love snow. I really love snow. So when I get that last minute email update from the Weather Channel cancelling our Winter Weather Warning, I cry a little inside. It sucks!!!! I am hoping for the best, but honestly I'm not holding my breath. We've been cancelled around here a lot lately, so I'll be excited when I see a white blanket outside in the morning.
In Virginia growing up, snow meant a lot of things to me. First and foremost as a child it meant the beloved SNOW DAY! No school, hot chocolate all day long and play time outside with my neighborhood friends! We would go back and explore the woods behind my house and look for little hills we could sled down, dodging trees and whatnot until we were so tired we feared we'd get lost finding our way home! As an adult (sort of), snow again meant SNOW DAY- a glorious day off of my job as an after school program supervisor and sleeping in, more hot chocolate all day long, and sewing a quilt while curled up on my couch, candles lit and a good movie on the tube. And watching the snow fall outside for hours.
There is something so beautiful about snow.
Sigh.... here I am, getting my hopes up again..... I guess we'll see.
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