I'm back in business with 24 GB of memory for photos to spare! So without further delay, let's get caught up on our Thanksgiving weekend.
The timing couldn't have been better (says the person who sat in the passenger seat during the very slippery ride home). We finished our Thanksgiving dinner with the Jaski's, only to discover that snow had started to fall.
The kids didn't seem to notice it as we loaded them in the minivan for the ride home. And so it was with total delight that they noticed what was on our driveway when we opened the side door for them to hop out.
"Look, Mom!" Sydney squealed. "It's real snow!"
She'd been looking forward to Thanksgiving night because even though we'd put up the Christmas lights the weekend prior, we told her she couldn't turn them on until after Thanksgiving. And so to flip the switch against a snowy backdrop - it was simply perfect!
Of course, AJ had other, more devious ideas. And I'm sure me throwing a snowball at him first had nothing to do with the pile of snow he flung back at me. (Look carefully. You can almost see AJ behind the snow coming straight at the camera.)
And what better way to celebrate the first snowfall than with a mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows. And if you don't have that, you can make do with a cup of lukewarm milk mixed with NesQuik with lots of marshmallows. Because really it's only the marshmallows in a cup that matter.
So much attention was focused on the early openings of various stores to kick off the holiday shopping season. I'd had zero interest in joining that craziness, and this weather affirmed my decision for me. No doorbuster deal could compare with the beauty of the first snowfall for marking the transition from Thanksgiving to Christmas.
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