Snow in Georgia!

It's March 1, and it's snowing! Just a week ago I was noticing the flowers on our trees and thinking, spring is here! But today at church during the message, our pastor paused and said, "is anyone else seeing white?" Sure enough the rain pouring down outside had turned to snow! It was hard to pay attention to the rest of the service (sorry, Pastor Jerry). It was just so beautiful to watch. And I kept wondering, what were my kids doing in their classes while this was going on outside their windows? I just couldn't picture Jason sitting there listening while the snow was falling. Turns out he was being a good student, at least outwardly. He said he just kept staring out the windows trying to be patient and sit still (good, boy!) As for the others, the teacher gave up and took them outside to play for a minute so they could then go back in and finish their lesson. After church we have lunch together. Today the kids (even most of the high schoolers) skipped lunch and opted for playing in the snow. Jason ran out there in his shirt, no jacket. I really wish I had had my camera with me. He just ran in circles arms out looking up...pure joy. I made him come in finally to eat a little something, thaw his fingers, and get a sweatshirt before heading back out. They even got cups and scooped snow off the playground equipment so they could eat it. The way all these kids were enjoying eating their cups of snow, you'd wonder why we bother flavoring snowcones! We finally headed home and got warm coats and gloves on so the real playing could begin.

But after running around a bit more, we decided it was hot cocoa time. And today is looking like a good movie day so I'm going to go pop some popcorn while we try to enjoy the warmth of our home for a little big longer before spring really does arrive soon.

Here's some pics of us playing back at the house...

Right after this picture, Adam asked if we could go inside.

And now that we're back inside and have warm tummies full of cocoa...