Kids have gone out to play in the blizzard. We'll see how long this lasts. LOL

[GreenPartyVoter]

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[MiddleFingerMom]

1. Are you KIDDING?!?!? As a kid growing up in Connecticut and Michigan...

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As a pre-schooler in Connecticut, my older brother MiddleFingerMomTom and I would
heap a huge half-globe of snow to a height of about 5 feet, spray it thoroughly
with water, and go out the next day and hollow it out as an igloo -- complete with
entrances and "shelves" cut into the walls. We'd take out a couple little chairs
and a blanket and sit out there and freeze our faces off -- mighty Inuit hunters
(though it was "Eskimo" back then) kicked back in our little boy mancaves.
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MiddleFingerMomMom would leave out goodies for us to "trap" to stock up on provisions
for our "refrigerator" shelf (candy bars and Hostess Snowballs and such).
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Then grade-school age in Michigan, the ONLIEST reason I joined the Cub Scouts
and the Boy Scouts was for the monthly campouts and annual canoe trip in the
warmer months... and the miles-long hikes through the snowy woods in the winter.
There is NOTHING more satisfying than a burnt weenie just-cooked over a fire
you've just built out in the open.
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The hot dogs weren't bad, either.
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[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Oh yeah, I loved playin gin the snow as a kid too. I've lost interest as I have gotten older, tho.

[abq e streeter]

2. I loved doing that as a kid in Chicago

Hope (and bet) they are having a great time.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. I heard something about them making a cave out there, so it's a good bet they were having fun. :^)

[tigereye]

19. whoops dupe

[tigereye]

20. loved to do that when my son was small and go sledding

now he usually goes out to shovel the walk...

[seabeyond]

3. when kids were little would take a half hour gathering everything. half hour to dress both

fifteen minutes outside in play. they half hour undressing and getting redressed in dry clothes. lol. i remember the days.

now, they do it themselves, so it is all good.

i want a blizzard.

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Yep, I remember those days too. And who could forget the, "I gotta pee!" issues that always

came up just when you finally got them all zipped up!

[seabeyond]

16. lol lol. yup. i forgot, lol. thanks for the reminder. nt

[rurallib]

4. Have some hot chocolate ready when they come in

As a young man in Iowa (good lord, I am still here) ruralmom would have to drag us in. Sunset only slowed things down a bit.

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. Hot chocolate on re-entry WAS key to our continued existence!!! n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Yeah, we'll have to do the hot chocolate thing for sure.

[kimi]

5. Snowball fights!!

Remember those??

I loved reading the "Calvin and Hobbes" books for some of the things those two came up with to do in snow.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. We love Calvin & Hobbes here!

[elleng]

6. How are you and your 'heat-challenged' house doing, GPV?

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Doing pretty good. :^) For the most part it's been working, and when it conks out we

have an electric heater and a propane one to fill in.

[marzipanni]

8. I hope they fare better than poor Randy, from "A Christmas Story"

I love this scene... I remember those cumbersome snowsuits from my early childhood. :o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW4IZ0Flh3M&feature

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Heh, I used to bundle my guys way up when they were tiny, but not so bad as that.

[Odin2005]

17. SNOW FORT!

:)

[orleans]

18. well, it's 2:25 in the morning... i hope they're in by now! lol. n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. LOL Yeah, they made it about an hour, or almost until Wood Thrush on the

new birdsong clock. LOL (Apparently this is how we will now all tell time around here. :P)

[elleng]

24. GREAT that you have that clock!

I asked for one years ago, and never received it!

[LynneSin]

22. Lock the door and take an Ambien. It'll help relax you

They'll survive out there

:hide:

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. Today they have been inside _all_ day. I think I want that Ambien now. LOL

[david13]

25. You better hope it doesn't last too long. 3 or 4 days could be

serious, you know.
Maybe they should go out after the blizzard. Then they can play in the snow.
dc