Today it actually hit 40 degrees! I had to laugh at everyone walking around without coats on, in just sweatshirts and sweaters! Welcome to winter in Utah! After enduring temps that had teens for highs, 40 degrees gets us all thinking spring is in the air!! We take those rare moments when we can get them... as we are bracing ourselves for what is said to be yet another big storm on Monday! I know we are a little tired of the snow at our place, but we did pray for moisture!! I guess we need to be a bit more specific ; )
After our 3 hours of basketball games, Greg came home and started to shovel some snow off of the roof, trying to prevent water damage and possible collapse! After he finished that chore, he dug a hole out of our enormous snow pile to start on making Bryn's igloo! She asks if we can make one everyday!! It's not too big yet, Bryn told Greg that it need to be big enough to fit all of us... maybe she knows something that we don't?! Should I be planning on living in an igloo because our roof caves in?:) Nope! I would head to my mom's!! Just call me adventurous!!
I had one of those moments tonight that made me smile as I see the huge difference between being the adult and the child... After Greg took the kids out and showed them the 'igloo' he made each of them promise to not play in it without him... very wise of him, but I had a flashback of the underground cave that my friends and I use to hang out in... we dug it out in a vacant lot - never thinking about it caving in or even the possibility of it doing so! I don't know if my parents ever knew about it?! Now that I am the parent, I think I have lost a lot of that adventurous spirit... common sense prevails, but how do we let our kids develop and use their own sense of adventure without constantly squashing it for safety concerns? Maybe I can console myself with the thought that they will get away with as much as I did, without me ever knowing about the danger? Or maybe not!!
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I didn't hear about the big storm coming until last night (Sat) during the 10 pm news. A little bit late to go out and shovel off my roof...we will have to decide today in family council if there is an ox in the mire and exactly how big it is :( Your snow cave sure looks fun!
the problem is we are protecting the stupid now...:) IE enforcing helmets and making people put their kids in car seats, society has become far more protective and cautious...anyway don't know what i am saying but love the igloo and i'd be freaked out tohave my kids play in it alone and it collapse..my big fear, i wouldn't even go in a snow cave if it were to save my life i'd rather freeze to death than die in a smothered surroundings, and how would you know which way was up?? sorry not meaning to be doomy and gloomy
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