Snow Day!!

There is something so sound about snow. I woke up this morning and dozed for about 45 minutes, thinking of all that I had to DO today. Then, around 7:30 a.m., I thought, “Oh, the weather forecaster said that there was a chance of snow last night,” and I leaned out of bed towards the window, thinking, “There’s no way…” and then oh my gosh!!!!!! I jumped out of bed and practically ran downstairs to see Vicki. “Vicki!!!” I called. “What in the world??” She said, “I know! Everything is cancelled. We have about 6 inches.” And I bounded around the house, buzzing and flittering from the window to the coffee maker to the window again, and then to the refrigerator, and then to the microwave, and then back to the window, then to the phone, and then to the chair next to the window, where I sat, dumbfounded, for the next hour. I drank my coffee, said hello to the birds, watched Sarah the cat say hello to the birds, and just took it all in. I called my best friends and exclaimed again, “What in the world?!” It was just so amazing to see how God surprised us today!! Most of the day was spent just admiring the snow. I did some school work, and then tonight I flittered outside because it is snowing AGAIN! I stood out under the snow in nothing but my regular clothes and gazed up and stretched my arms out and just soaked it in. God is so good. Tonight I made some Valentine’s Day gifts…cute little fabric scrap bookmarks for my friends. And now I am lying in bed listening to the sleet, and thinking how snow really is comforting. It’s like a blanket across the land, and it silences everything. The only sound is the crunching, and I just feel as though I am in another world. Memphis, Tennessee: second snow day in a week. Incredible. I wonder if we will be out of school tomorrow?