Today...We Made Lemonade

Well. Metaphorically speaking we did, anyway. Nasty weather was in the forecast for last night. Sleet. Freezing rain. Bitter cold. Nothing pretty. Lemons. And of course, when I got up this morning, the ground was pretty much covered with little pellets of sleet. It was still sleeting, a little bit of snow mixed in. I was thinking what a yucky day it was going to be, with Brody having to get out in it to go to school. Lemons.

Brent nonchalantly asked if I was going to go ahead and send Brody to school. I, of course, responded with a , "Well, why wouldn't I?" He told me that he just thought I might have wanted to let him stay home to play. I decided right then. We weren't going to have a nasty, dreary, lemon-filled day after all. I snuck into Brody and Beckett's room, talked to Brody a little until he was awake, lifted him from his bed and carried him to his window. I pulled the curtain back and told him to take a look. He smiled so big, "It SNOWED!!!" I thought for a minute about telling him that no, it wasn't snow, but sleet instead. But I quickly changed my mind. Afterall, what did it really matter? The ground was covered in fun white stuff that he could play in. And the white stuff was still falling from the sky. "Yes it did, Buddy. We are going to have us a little Snow Day!!!!" Lemonade.

So, we let Brody stay home from preschool, and as soon as we got Brent off to work, we suited up and headed out to play!
We were so unprepared for a snow day that I couldn't find a matching pair of gloves for either of them to wear. But I can promise you, they didn't mind the mismatched gloves.
As soon as we stepped off the back porch, Brody noticed his trampoline was covered too, so they headed straight for it! They jumped and slid and had a snowball fight and laughed until they could hardly breathe. At one point, Brody even looked over at me and said, "This is the best snow day, Mommy." Lemonade. We even suited this little guy up for a bit to take him outside to experience his first little bit of wintry weather. He wanted down immediately, so I sat him down. He would reach down and feel of the little sleet pellets and snow and then look and me and grin and squeal. Seeing him experience something new for the first time...Lemonade.



I let Brody and Beckett play outside for a while, then we came in and drank apple cider and ate warm poptarts (their request). It was still sleeting pretty hard when we finished eating, so we sat on the couch by the big window in our living room, snuggled up under a blanket and read a few books.
Later on in the day, when Beckett and Levi were down for their naps, Brody and I finished making his Valentine cards for his classmates. I loved having him home the whole day! I don't know what I am going to do next year when he is actually gone until 3:30 instead of just noon. But I soaked up every minute of him being home all day today. Lemonade.
Everything was melted by early afternoon, but we sure had fun while it lasted. So maybe it was just mostly sleet. Maybe there was no fluffy white snow for us to make snow angels in. Maybe we just had a bowl of lemons in front of us. But you know what? It didn't matter to my boys. And they were sure glad that it didn't matter to their mama either. We made lemonade.